The Brave and the Bold #29

This January 2010 team-up pairs Batman with the offbeat cult figure Brother Power the Geek, an unlikely pairing that The Brave and the Bold makes feel completely compelling. Jesús Saiz's cover sets a vivid, unsettling tone — a battered, wild-haired Brother Power kneels amid smoking rubble and debris, his mouth open in anguish, while Batman swoops in from above against a fiery orange sky. Writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Jesús Saiz bring their "Lost Stories of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" sensibility to a corner of the DC universe that doesn't often get this kind of thoughtful spotlight.