JSA #53

The cover by Carlos Pacheco and Jesús Merino makes an immediate impression: a masked hero in a blue costume — bound hands wrapped in white bandages, smoking gun in hand — is mirrored against a red-drenched reflection below, where a red-gloved gunman crouches amid a shattered cityscape. That striking inverted symmetry sets a tense, noir-flavored tone perfectly matched by this issue's title, "Blinded." Geoff Johns, Don Kramer, and Keith Champagne deliver what promises to be a gripping chapter in one of DC's most compelling team books of 2003.