Earth 2 #15.1

Part of DC's New 52 "Villain's Month" initiative, this 2013 special puts Desaad front and center — and Ken Lashley's cover makes an immediate impression, depicting the monstrous, hooded Apokoliptian torturer looming large against a roiling inferno, one clawed hand crackling with dark energy as he clutches a struggling Power Girl while Huntress fights back in the foreground. The fiery, chaotic backdrop and Desaad's leering, shadowed face set a genuinely menacing tone that signals this is very much his show. With Paul Levitz scripting and Yıldıray Çınar on interior art, "The Fallen" promises a dark, character-driven look at one of Apokolips's most unsettling figures through the lens of Earth 2's alternate DC universe.