The Exterminators #6

Vertigo's creepy-crawly series hits its sixth issue with a cover that says everything you need to know about the book's unsettling charm — a wide-eyed young woman in glasses recoils in terror from an enormous, glossy blue-black spider descending toward her amid shelves of books, while a man in a yellow uniform lurks watchfully in the background, a giant cobweb framing the whole nightmarish scene. Philip Bond's cover linework captures that queasy mix of mundane setting and exaggerated dread that makes The Exterminators such a distinctive corner of the 2006 Vertigo lineup. With "Insurgency: Chapter One" kicking off a new arc, Simon Oliver and Tony Moore's bug-infested world looks ready to get even more unsettling.