Robin #163

This August 2007 issue delivers one of the more unsettling cover compositions of the series: a blood-splattered wristwatch dominates the image, its crystal face reflecting a battered, masked Robin, with the engraved inscription "To Bruce — Happy Father's Day" visible beneath the gore. The stark red-drenched design, rendered by cover penciler Patrick Gleason and inker Christian Alamy, sends an immediate, chilling message about the danger Tim Drake has found himself in. Inside, writer Adam Beechen and artist Freddie E. Williams II continue their run with "Twelve Very Angry Men," promising the same tension that cover makes so viscerally clear.