Trinity #45

DC's weekly Trinity series reaches its 45th chapter with a cover by Jesús Merino that radiates a genuinely unsettling tension — a massive, red-eyed Batman looms over a scorched, flame-lit landscape while a winged, armored figure swoops in from the right, lasso in hand, and a cloaked figure crouches in the foreground. Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley continue their ambitious year-long story here, promising that whatever power the title "The Power Is Close..." hints at, the stakes feel appropriately enormous. It's a striking 2009 chapter in one of DC's most ambitious weekly experiments.