The Exterminators #23

Vertigo's bug-infested urban horror series reaches issue #23 with a cover by Glenn Fabry that's equal parts darkly comic and genuinely unsettling — a grinning exterminator in a yellow uniform kneels amid a seething mass of oversized green-and-red insects crawling across his body and flooding the background in every direction. The sheer density of the infestation on display captures exactly the kind of gleefully grim tone that writer Simon Oliver and interior artist Darick Robertson (with inks by John Lucas) brought to this Mature Readers series. "Crossfire and Collateral: Chapter Five" promises the ongoing chaos is building to something, and Fabry's cover makes a compelling case for picking this one up.