Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3

This third chapter of the DC/IDW crossover event delivers one of the most striking images of 2016: a massive, armored Shredder dominates the foreground, his gleaming blade filling the center of the cover, while all four Turtles — Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo — swirl in dynamic motion around it, with a determined Batman reflected in the steel. Freddie E. Williams II's cover art captures the sense of a team under serious pressure, the heroes scattered and scrapping against an adversary who feels genuinely overwhelming in scale. If you've been following this unlikely but thoroughly entertaining team-up, issue #3 makes a strong visual case that the stakes are only getting higher.