Nightwing #98

Part 3 of 8 in War Games Act Three, this December 2004 installment finds Nightwing in a desperate, vertiginous moment — the cover by Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens shows him plummeting or clinging at a dizzying height, claws raking down a massive surface as the city burns in the background below. The composition perfectly captures the chaos engulfing Gotham, with flames rising from the skyline and the sense that no hero is safe from the escalating gang war. Devin Grayson and Sean Phillips deliver what promises to be a harrowing chapter in one of 2004's most ambitious Batman-universe crossovers.