Doomsday Clock #2

Gary Frank's cover for this German-language Panini edition puts the Joker front and center — grinning ear to ear, applying lipstick in a small hand mirror while dressed in his signature purple suit, bathed in the eerie half-light of what looks like a dingy room. It's an unsettling, intimate portrait that perfectly captures the character's unnerving blend of vanity and menace. With Geoff Johns scripting and Frank on art, Doomsday Clock #2 promises a collision of DC's darkest corners that fans of ambitious, large-scale storytelling won't want to miss.