Batman: Nevermore #1

This DC Elseworlds miniseries opens with a wonderfully atmospheric premise, transplanting Batman into the gaslit world of 19th-century Gothic horror. Bernie Wrightson's cover painting sets the mood perfectly: a wide-eyed, quill-in-hand figure — clearly meant to evoke Edgar Allan Poe — sits at a candlelit writing desk, looking up in startled alarm as Batman's masked visage looms through the rain-streaked window behind him, a dark city stretching into the night beyond. Writer Len Wein and artist Guy Davis promise a moody, literary adventure that feels right at home alongside Poe's own verse, and Wrightson's painterly cover is the ideal invitation into this shadows-and-candlelight world.