The Exterminators #25

A man lies flat on his back, arms outstretched, overcome by the eerie golden glow radiating from an ornate scarab-emblazoned Egyptian reliquary hovering above his torso — all set against a backdrop of hieroglyphic temple walls that feel a long way from the pest-control beat. Vertigo's The Exterminators has always blended the gritty and the mythological with darkly comic flair, and this March 2008 issue, with cover art by Philip Bond, delivers a visual that's equal parts pulpy dread and ancient mystery. Writer Simon Oliver and artist Tony Moore bring their characteristically unnerving sensibility to the title's penultimate stretch, and the story's title — "All Rednecks Go to Heaven" — promises the series hasn't lost its twisted sense of humor.