Swamp Thing #23.1

Part of DC's New 52 "Villain's Month" lineup, this 2013 issue puts the spotlight squarely on Patchwork — a massive, stitched-together horror of a figure who dominates the cover, roaring skyward while clutching a glowing blue female figure against a backdrop of gnarled trees and a gothic structure wreathed in eerie yellow-green tendrils. Jesús Saiz's cover work is viscerally striking, balancing grotesque scale with an unsettling luminous detail that makes the smaller captive figure all the more haunting. Writer Charles Soule and artist Jesús Saiz collaborate on "The Patchwork History," promising a deep dive into one of the stranger and more unsettling corners of the Swamp Thing universe.