Batman: The Dark Knight #1

This New 52 collection, *Batman: The Dark Knight Vol. 1 — Knight Terrors*, brings together the work of writer-artists David Finch and Paul Jenkins with inking by Richard Friend in a Gotham City story that clearly doesn't pull its punches. David Finch and Richard Friend's cover says it all: Batman surges forward over the city's glowing rooftops, cape billowing against a deep red sky and a massive bat-symbol moon, every muscle coiled with the kind of intensity that makes Gotham feel genuinely dangerous. If this image is any indication, "Knight Terrors" is the Dark Knight operating at the edge of his limits — and that's exactly where his stories tend to be most compelling.