Birds of Prey #126

Part of DC's 2009 "Faces of Evil" event, this issue spotlights the Calculator — and Stéphane Roux's cover makes a strong case for why he belongs front and center. A smirking, bespectacled man in a Hawaiian shirt sits calmly at a laptop while crackling blue electricity surges around his hands, all beneath the looming, red-eyed armored form of the Calculator himself — menace and mundanity colliding in one striking image. With Tony Bedard writing and Claude St. Aubin on interior art, "Silicon Avatar" promises a villain-focused chapter that fans of the series won't want to skip.