Nightwing #77

Devin Grayson, Patrick Zircher, and Jesse Delperdang bring "The Web" to Nightwing #77, and Michael Golden's cover sets an immediately gripping tone — a battered, gritting-his-teeth Nightwing lies on the ground, surrounded by a mob of armed figures, while a mysterious blue-clad woman stands over him, weapons in hand. The composition, framed through her legs as she looms above the fallen hero, perfectly captures a hero at his most outnumbered and vulnerable. It's a striking 2003 entry in DC's long-running series that makes it very hard to put back on the shelf.