Titans #19

From the creative team of J.T. Krul and Angel Unzueta, Titans #19 arrives in January 2010 with one of its most quietly unsettling covers. A child's mary-jane shoes stand amid a scattered wreckage of arrows and a broken bow, while a shattered framed portrait of a red-costumed, grinning hero lies crushed beneath those small feet. The story is titled "Paternal Instincts," and this image — childhood innocence surrounded by weaponry, a hero's image literally cracked underfoot — sets a genuinely compelling, tension-filled tone for what lies inside.