Nightwing #57

The cover of Nightwing #57 sets an unsettling tone right away: Joker's Daughter, dressed in her signature purple pinstripe outfit and wearing her eerie mask pushed up to reveal her grinning face, perches atop a bound and battered man — holding the Joker-face mask aloft with gleeful menace. The tagline "Prey for the Joker's Daughter!" says it all about where this issue's tension is headed. Chris Mooneyham's cover art crackles with a sickly green atmosphere, and the creative team of Lobdell, Kaplan, Moore, and Bonvillain promise plenty of dark thrills within.