Batman: Gotham After Midnight #12

The twelve-issue Gotham After Midnight series comes to its "tragic" conclusion with a cover that earns its subtitle — Batman crouches in an open grave, snarling, as he wrestles with a coffin whose small window reveals a pair of glowing, wild eyes staring back. Above ground, a headstone reads "Pray That He Forgives Us All," a shovel propped beside it against a smoldering crimson sky. Kelley Jones delivers the kind of gothic, deeply unsettling imagery he does so well, and paired with Steve Niles's storytelling, this finale promises a fittingly dark send-off for one of Batman's moodiest modern miniseries.