Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children #27

Part of DC's offbeat Piranha Press imprint, this 1992 issue of Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children presents "The No-Wax Killing Floor" by Dave Louapre and Dan Sweetman. Sweetman's cover art dominates with an unforgettable close-up: a large shoe descending toward a cockroach flat on its back on a tiled floor, rendered with an almost painterly, unsettling realism. It's a darkly whimsical setup that perfectly captures the series' reputation for delivering strange, thoughtful stories dressed in genuinely uncomfortable imagery.