The Exterminators #18

Ty Templeton brings his talents inside while Philip Bond delivers a striking cover for this 2007 Vertigo series — a coolly clinical diagram of a massive mechanical cockroach, rendered in bold yellow and orange, looming over a bespectacled businessman in a suit who examines it with clipboard in hand. The schematic-style presentation, complete with measurement scales and labeling bars, gives the whole thing the unsettling feel of a corporate product manual for something deeply wrong. Written by Simon Oliver, this concluding chapter of "Showdown at Scatshot" promises a satisfying payoff for fans of the series' uniquely dark blend of pest control and paranoia.