Dexter's Laboratory #12

A wide-eyed Dexter stands at the center of this creepy-fun cover, surrounded on all sides by a swirling mass of disembodied eyes, ears, noses, and other stray body parts floating in the darkness — his nervous speech bubble asking "Who said that? Who's there?" perfectly captures the unsettling mood. Cover pencils by series creator Genndy Tartakovsky (inked by Jeff Albrecht) give the scene that instantly recognizable Cartoon Network look, while the story inside — "Protoplasm Man!" — promises some seriously strange science gone wrong. If you were following DC's Dexter's Laboratory run in 2000, issue #12 is a wonderfully weird addition to the collection.