Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #3

Part three of Grant Morrison's six-issue miniseries drops Bruce Wayne into the age of high-seas adventure, and Andy Kubert's cover makes the concept sing — a wild-eyed, bearded Bruce in a bat-cowl and flowing pirate coat leaps across a ship's rigging, twin cutlasses raised, as a mob of armed buccaneers surges beneath him and burning vessels blaze on the horizon. It's a genuinely striking image, capturing the series' central thrill: the Dark Knight's silhouette and instincts persisting across radically different eras. With Grant Morrison writing and Yanick Paquette and Michel Lacombe handling the interior art, "The Bones of Bristol Bay" promises another stylish chapter in one of DC's more ambitious Batman stories of 2010.