Detective Comics #33

Part four of the "Icarus" arc arrives in this September 2014 installment of DC's New 52 Detective Comics, with a striking cover by Francis Manapul that layers multiple scenes inside a gun-shaped silhouette — a gunman, a mysterious green-eyed figure, a weary heavyset man, and Batman himself rendered in vivid pink at the base. The cascading vignettes, punctuated by scattered shell casings and a smear of blood, suggest a Gotham story tangled with crime, danger, and consequences closing in from every angle. With Francis Manapul handling both writing and art alongside co-writer and colorist Brian Buccellato, this team's painterly sensibility gives the Dark Knight's world a fresh and genuinely compelling visual energy.