Talon #10

Bane dominates this September 2013 New 52 cover, his glowing red eyes and imposing masked face filling the frame as he holds up a cracked, blood-spattered Talon mask — a striking image that promises a brutal collision between DC's bone-breaking villain and the Court of Owls' deadliest assassin. The tagline "The Bane of Owls!" says it all, setting up what looks to be a genuinely formidable threat for Calvin Rose's world. James Tynion IV scripts with Miguel Sepulveda and Szymon Kudranski sharing art duties, and Sepulveda's cover work delivers a menacing close-up that's hard to look away from.