The Titans #9

Framed by a wall of roaring flames, the Dan Jurgens and Bill Sienkiewicz cover for The Titans #9 is a striking ensemble portrait — a red-skinned demonic figure looms large at the center, wings spread wide, while Nightwing, a bare-chested young man bearing visible scars, a dark-haired woman in casual clothes, a golden-armored figure, a blue-armored hero, and a frightened child crouching at the foreground all press together in an ominous oval composition. The tagline "The Past Haunts the Titans" and the Day of Judgment crossover banner set a decidedly foreboding tone for writer Devin Grayson's story "Limbo." It's a confident, atmospheric piece of late-'90s DC storytelling that promises the team facing something genuinely unsettling from their history.