The Exterminators #16

Vertigo's gritty pest-control drama reaches a conclusion with "Lies of Our Fathers" in this June 2007 installment. Philip Bond's cover sets a tense, intimate tone — a dark-haired woman in a loosened white shirt holds a glass of wine and a cigar while leaning over a desk toward a wide-eyed redhead in a red dress, the curling smoke adding an air of unease to what looks like a very uncomfortable conversation. Simon Oliver's writing paired with John Lucas and Dan Green's interior art makes this mature-readers series one of Vertigo's more grounded and unsettling offerings of its era.