The Filth #9

The ninth chapter of Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, and Gary Erskine's unsettling Vertigo series takes a coolly clinical turn, presenting a cover by Segura Inc. that renders a human hand as a detailed architectural floor plan — its fingers and palm mapped out with labeled rooms including Observation, Tactical, Venereal Arts, and a Super Communications Office spanning 8,574 square feet. The blueprint aesthetic, rendered in crisp white lines against deep blue, perfectly captures The Filth's blend of bureaucratic surrealism and body horror. Published in April 2003 as part of this 13-issue series, "Inside the Hand" promises another chapter where the mundane and the deeply strange fold seamlessly into one another.