Swamp Thing #10

Glenn Fabry's painted cover for this 2001 Vertigo entry sets a quietly unsettling mood: a fair-haired man in a military jacket smokes thoughtfully in the background, his gaze fixed downward on a pale-haired woman whose bare shoulders are entangled in creeping vines and grasping hands. The composition — lush greenery, a misty mountain range behind him, and those encroaching tendrils swallowing her — suggests a tension between the human world and something far more elemental. Brian K. Vaughan, Roger Petersen, and Rick Magyar bring the story "Silk Cut" to life inside, making this a compelling chapter in the series' mature-readers run.