Batman: The Long Halloween - The Last Halloween #9

With just one issue left in this ten-part series, Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween #9 sets the tension perfectly on a Tim Sale cover that places Batman looming large over Gotham's moonlit rooftops while Catwoman crouches below him, a money bag clutched at her side — two figures whose loyalties remain deliciously complicated. The moody purple palette and angular cityscape feel right at home in the world Jeph Loeb and Chris Samnee have built, with Dave Stewart's colors and Richard Starkings' lettering rounding out a creative team firing on all cylinders. Story title "Guilty" promises that the penultimate chapter will be putting someone — or something — on trial before the finale arrives.