The Filth #3

The third chapter of Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Gary Erskine, and Matt Hollingsworth's unsettling Vertigo series arrives with a cover design — by Segura Inc. — that is deliberately clinical and cool: a grid of atomic orbital diagrams, rendered in crisp red and white, evokes scientific documentation more than superhero spectacle. Subtitled "Structures and Ultrastructures," the issue signals that this 2002 series is interested in systems, hidden frameworks, and the architecture underlying things we'd rather not examine too closely. It's a striking piece of graphic design that sets The Filth apart from almost everything else on the shelf that October.