Harley Quinn #34

This September 2003 issue of Harley Quinn delivers a quietly tense cover penciled by Mike Huddleston and inked by Troy Nixey, where a young blonde girl in a pink star-print jacket aims a handgun with unnerving determination — caught between Harley Quinn's costumed figure visible through a doorway behind her and a clawed, gloved hand reaching in from the right edge of the frame. The composition is a masterclass in understated dread, placing an unlikely protagonist at the center of what feels like a very dangerous situation. "Behind Blue Eyes Part Two" promises that A.J. Lieberman's story is every bit as gripping as the cover suggests.