Robin #123

Robin #123 hits hard with one of the most unsettling covers of 2004 — Jason Pearson's artwork depicts a skeletal, decaying Robin screaming in agony as rain lashes down around him, while a dark caped figure looms ominously in the background. The bold tagline "Die Screaming, Boy Wonder!" makes absolutely clear that Tim Drake is in serious danger, framed in a chilling blue palette that gives the whole image a haunted, desperate energy. With Bill Willingham writing and Francisco Rodríguez de la Fuente on interior art, "Nemesis" promises the kind of high-stakes tension that made this era of Robin consistently compelling.