Swamp Thing #2

Enrique Breccia's painted cover for this June 2004 Vertigo issue is genuinely unsettling — a hooded skeletal figure stares out with a single, eerie disembodied eye nestled in its hollow socket, bony fingers raised as if in warning or dark benediction. The image sets a powerfully atmospheric tone for "Bad Seed, Part Two," writer Andy Diggle's mature-readers arc rendered throughout by Breccia in his distinctively textured, painterly style. If you're looking for Swamp Thing with serious horror atmosphere, this issue announces its intentions right on the cover.