Gotham City: Year One #1

Against a Gotham skyline glowing with amber light, a hooded woman draped in a dark cloak stares out with quiet intensity while a suited man holds a gun behind her — and a solitary child's sneaker lies abandoned in the foreground, hinting at something deeply unsettling beneath the city's surface. Tom King, Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, and Jordie Bellaire launch this 2022 miniseries with a cover that feels more like noir fiction than superhero spectacle, all moody blues and burnt golds courtesy of Hester and Gapstur's atmospheric linework. If this opening image is any measure, Gotham City: Year One is shaping up to be a grounded, human-scale mystery set in one of comics' most storied cities.