Batman: Gotham After Midnight #7

Kelley Jones delivers a genuinely unsettling cover for this seventh chapter of the twelve-issue series, filling the frame with a monstrous, leering face — wild eyes, a jagged razor grin, and clawed red hands reaching forward out of the darkness. The cover tagline warns of a "red death" coming for the Dark Knight, lending this issue a deliciously ominous tension that fits perfectly within Steve Niles and Jones's horror-soaked vision of Gotham. If you've been following this midnight-black series, issue seven keeps the dread cranked up right where it belongs.