Batman by Doug Moench & Kelley Jones #2

Kelley Jones and John Beatty's striking cover for this 2018 DC collection says everything about the tone inside: Batman rendered as a pure black silhouette — hunched, predatory, those famously exaggerated ears reaching upward — set against a bold red bat-shape that fills the background with an almost primal energy. Doug Moench and Jones together push the Dark Knight into genuinely gothic territory, and this second volume continues collecting their run with stories like "Darkest Night of the Man-Bat." If you want Batman at his most creature-of-the-night, this collaboration delivers that atmosphere in abundance.