JLA: Black Baptism
DC · 2001 · 4 issues
About the series
In this four-issue DC miniseries from 2001, writer Ruben Diaz and Sean Smith team with artist Jesús Saiz for a supernatural thriller that drags the Justice League into a dark conflict with an ancient evil. The story pits the team against a malevolent force tied to the Black Baptism, a ritual that threatens to corrupt both heroes and magic alike. Saiz’s atmospheric art grounds the cosmic horror in a gritty, shadowy world, making this a moody, underrated entry in the League’s early-2000s canon.