Nightwing #26

Nightwing looks nothing short of ferocious on the cover of this February 2014 New 52 installment, with a bloodied, rage-filled Dick Grayson crouched low in his red-and-black suit, teeth bared and eyes blazing — a side of the character rarely shown this raw and desperate. The cover art by Scott McDaniel and inker Karl Story delivers an intense close-up that practically leaps off the page, making it clear that "Some Strings Attached" has pushed Nightwing to his absolute limit. With Kyle Higgins writing and Will Conrad and Cliff Richards on interior art, this is a chapter of the New 52 run that fans of the series won't want to skip.