Identity Crisis #5

Few images in 2004 DC publishing hit as hard as this one: Robin slumped alone on a floor, head in his hands, cape pooled around him, a city skyline visible through an open window behind him — a portrait of grief rendered with quiet intensity by cover artist Michael Turner, inked by Aspen Studios. The story title "Father's Day" and that spreading red on the floor in the foreground lend the scene an unmistakable weight without a single word of dialogue. Brad Meltzer's seven-part series, with interior art by Rags Morales and inks by Michael Bair, was one of the most emotionally ambitious superhero stories DC had published in years, and this fifth installment promises no let-up in the drama.