The Filth #6

Issue six of Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, and Gary Erskine's boundary-pushing Vertigo series turns its unsettling lens on "The World of Anders Klimakks," and the cover by Segura Inc. sets a memorably clinical tone. A sleek laboratory microscope — branded with the word "Filth" — dominates the lower half of the image, while a swarm of sperm cells fills the field above, some caught in a circular slide view and countless others spreading across a muted green-grey field. It's a coolly composed, almost deadpan image that perfectly captures the series' knack for making the biological feel deeply strange.