Batman: Gotham Knights #15

Poison Ivy dominates this Brian Bolland cover for Batman: Gotham Knights #15 (May 2001), her wild red hair threaded with white flowers and trailing vines as she cradles an unconscious Robin in her arms — a possessive, unsettling tenderness rendered in Bolland's characteristically precise linework. Looming in the background, Batman's silhouette spreads its cape against a full moon, a silent, watchful threat that gives the scene its tension. Written by Devin Grayson with art by Roger Robinson and John Floyd, this issue's story "Far from the Tree" promises a complicated dynamic between Gotham's Dark Knight and two of its most compelling figures.