Doom Patrol #1

The launch of DC's Young Animal imprint announced itself with one of the most disarmingly strange covers of 2016: a single burrito, rendered in warm ochres and muted greens against a stark white field, with the words "Doom Patrol" set beside it in clean, confident type. Nick Derington's cover art is deliberately, wonderfully off-kilter — no capes, no action poses, just a carefully observed fast-food item that somehow feels like a provocation and a promise at the same time. Gerard Way, Nick Derington, and Tamra Bonvillain's "Happy Birthday, Casey Brinke" chapter one begins here, and the cover alone tells you this reinvention of the team is going to play by its own rules entirely.