Blackest Night: Batman #3

The concluding chapter of DC's 2009 Blackest Night: Batman tie-in arrives with a cover by Andy Kubert that pulls no punches — Batman is locked in a desperate, visceral struggle against two decomposed Black Lantern revenants, their glowing red eyes and skeletal hands clutching at him from all sides. Looming ominously in the background is a gravestone memorializing John and Mary Grayson, "The Flying Graysons," lending the image a deeply personal weight. Writer Peter J. Tomasi, artist Ardian Syaf, and inker Vicente Cifuentes bring this three-part horror-tinged Batman saga to its finish, and Kubert's cover makes it clear the Dark Knight is fighting for more than just survival.