The Filth #8

The eighth chapter of Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, and Gary Erskine's Vertigo series arrives in March 2003 with a striking, design-forward cover by Segura Inc. that leans into bold graphic minimalism — a sea of white silhouetted figures streams outward from a large, pale hand, while three authoritative police silhouettes loom above, their badges faintly visible against the black background. The subtitle "♥\%$ Police" signals the irreverent, anything-goes energy that made The Filth* one of Vertigo's more audaciously strange offerings of its era. Part of a planned 13-issue run, this issue sits near the midpoint of Morrison's characteristically mind-bending series, and the cover alone promises something unsettling about authority, crowds, and control.