Penguin: Pain & Prejudice #4

Szymon Kudranski's cover for this fourth chapter of the five-issue series is genuinely unsettling — the Penguin looms in shadow, top hat and monocle in place, his bulky frame hunched over an open mechanical box filled with exposed clockwork gears, while the tagline "The Terror Inside!" hangs in the air with quiet menace. Gregg Hurwitz's "Practice Run" installment arrives at a pivotal point in this character-driven 2012 miniseries, which takes one of Gotham's most underestimated villains and examines the darkness beneath the bluster. If you've been following Oswald Cobblepot's brooding journey, this penultimate chapter looks ready to deliver.