Batman Eternal #18

From the pages of DC's 2014 weekly series comes Batman Eternal #18, with a cover by Alex Garner that plunges us straight into subterranean dread — Batman surges forward with fists clenched as a grotesque, luminous creature with a gaping maw looms from the darkness above, while a young man armed with a gun and a glowing device stands his ground nearby. With a writing team that includes Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley, Ray Fawkes, and John Layman — and interior art by Andy Clarke colored by Blond — this chapter of "A Night on Earth" promises the kind of layered, atmospheric storytelling that made Batman Eternal one of the most ambitious Bat-projects of the New 52 era.