Justice League Dark 2021 Annual #1

This oversized 2021 Annual brings an unsettling elegance to DC's supernatural team book, with Sebastián Fiumara's cover art zeroing in on a cold, shadowy face wearing red-tinted sunglasses — and reflected in those lenses are several members of the Justice League Dark themselves, including what appears to be a woman, a gorilla-like creature, a masked figure, and a red-costumed hero, all rendered in stark crimson. The stark black-and-red palette gives the whole image a menacing, voyeuristic charge, as if the team is being watched — or hunted — by whoever this impassive figure is. Writers Ram V and Dan Watters, joined by artist Christopher Mitten, deliver an annual-sized story titled "A Glimmer of Childlike Hope" that promises something genuinely haunting from one of DC's darkest corners.