Swamp Thing #24

This 2006 Vertigo entry in Joshua Dysart and Enrique Breccia's run delivers one of the most viscerally unsettling covers of the series, rendered by Eric Powell: a massive, spider-like creature — its carapace studded with screaming faces and lit by glowing amber eyes — looms over a battered, green Swamp Thing who struggles desperately in its grip. Scattered across the foreground, more anguished faces emerge from the ground, deepening the sense of a world utterly consumed by horror. It's a striking piece of dark fantasy that makes "The Bleeding Raconteur, Part 4: Emendation" feel like a confrontation you won't want to look away from.