Joker / Harley: Criminal Sanity #8

The penultimate chapter of Kami Garcia's grounded, psychological DC Black Label series arrives with a cover by Francesco Mattina that is genuinely unsettling — a pale, silver-haired Harley looms above a battered, blood-streaked Joker, both rendered in deep blues and crimson with an almost painterly intensity. The two figures are inseparable yet opposed, their expressions conveying cold resolve and menace rather than any trace of camp. With art from Jason Badower and Mico Suayan inside and colors by Annette Kwok, this mature-readers thriller continues to treat its source material with a dark, crime-fiction seriousness that rewards patient readers.