Nightwing #7

Part of DC's New 52 initiative, Nightwing #7 (2012) arrives with a cover that pulls no punches — Dick Grayson is bound in ropes and hanging upside down, his expression tense and bloodied, while a grotesque armored villain looms above in the corner. The tagline "Saiko's Last Act… The Death of Dick Grayson!" promises the story inside raises the stakes as high as they can go for Gotham's acrobatic hero. Eddy Barrows delivers a striking, vertigo-inducing composition that makes this issue of Kyle Higgins's run hard to walk past on the shelf.