Detective Comics #4

Part of DC's New 52 relaunch, Detective Comics #4 drops Batman into a genuinely unsettling situation — the Dark Knight is tangled in puppet strings, fists clenched and straining against an unseen manipulator, while a crowd of figures lies helpless beneath him. The cover's tagline, "Who pulls the strings of Gotham?", perfectly frames the threat at hand, with Tony Daniel's pencils and Ryan Winn's inks giving Batman a raw, coiled intensity that makes the image hard to look away from. It's a strong chapter in this New 52 volume, promising a mystery with real teeth.