Doom Patrol #82

Rachel Pollack and Ted McKeever's Doom Patrol continues its wildly unconventional run with issue #82, and the cover by Kyle Baker sets the tone perfectly — a figure is literally crushed beneath a massive yellow car amid a chaotic wreckage-strewn landscape, all rendered in Baker's bold, visceral linework against a fiery orange backdrop. The banner tagline "Stand Back… It's a Ritual Bloodbath!" promises the kind of surreal, boundary-pushing storytelling that defined DC Vertigo's mature-readers line in 1994. With a story titled "A Swaying Nipple and a Shower of Gold," this is clearly not your average superhero comic.