Swamp Thing #16

Part four of "Rotworld: The Green Kingdom" arrives in this 2013 New 52 installment, with Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette plunging readers into a nightmare underground. The cover — illustrated by Paquette — puts Swamp Thing face-to-face with a grotesque, fanged creature lunging from the darkness of what the tagline plainly calls a "Cave of Horrors," the tension between the luminous green elemental and the pale, fleshy monstrosity making for a genuinely unsettling image. If you've been following the Rotworld saga, this chapter promises the horror only deepens.