100 Bullets #16

The cover of this 2012 Urban Comics edition — *Batman: Knightfall Tome 1: La Chute* — pulls no punches: a massively built Bane looms in the foreground, gripping a battered Batman in his powerful arms inside what appears to be the Batcave, a dinosaur statue lurking ominously in the shadows behind them. The raw physical tension between the two figures, rendered with striking intensity by Dave Johnson, sets the tone for one of Batman's most grueling sagas. Writers Chuck Dixon and Doug Moench, alongside artists Norm Breyfogle and Jim Aparo, make this French-language collection a compelling entry point into the "Knightfall" arc.