Batman: Gotham Knights #64

From the cover by Cliff Chiang, Batman: Gotham Knights #64 (June 2005) makes its intentions clear with the tagline "Winner Takes Ivy" — Poison Ivy dominates the foreground, her red hair and vine-wrapped green skin radiating cool menace, while Batman swoops down dramatically in the background to intercept a bandaged, struggling figure in a greenhouse setting. A.J. Lieberman's "Human Nature Book Four" promises the kind of layered Gotham intrigue that made this series a reliable standout, with Al Barrionuevo and Bit handling interior art duties. If botanical villainy and a Dark Knight on the hunt sounds like your kind of evening, this one's hard to pass up.