The New 52: Futures End #20

Ryan Sook's cover for this November 2014 installment of The New 52: Futures End is an unsettling close-up of a pale, clown-like face — eyes pinned wide open by surgical needles, blood trickling from the scalp, and a grotesquely wide grin stretched to its limits by more metal implements. It's a deeply disquieting image that captures the series' darkly dystopian atmosphere with visceral precision. With Azzarello, Lemire, Jurgens, and Giffen guiding the story and Lopresti, Thibert, and Hi-Fi handling interior art, this weekly series continues to deliver some of DC's most ambitious storytelling of 2014.