A Bug's Gift #1

From Discovery Comics in 1991, *A Bug's Gift* is a quietly compelling one-shot by Scott Deschaine and Lynette Weisberg. The cover's spare blue design draws your eye to a stark black-and-white illustration of a bald figure looking wide-eyed into the darkness, a large hand reaching in from the shadows nearby — an image that feels intimate and just a little unsettling. It's the kind of understated, personal comics storytelling that made the early-'90s small-press scene such fertile ground for distinctive voices.