Exterminators

1 Bug Brothers (1-5; w Simon Oliver; a Tony Moore). [From DC Comics: Writer Simon Oliver and Eisner-nominated artist Tony Moore team up to tell this smart, scary, darkly comic tale of roaches, rats, raccoons and the men who kill them. Henry James, the newest exterminator, sees the job as a means to cleanse the sins of his dark past. But standing between him and redemption are his careerist girlfriend, sociopathic partner, the dysfunctional freaks he calls coworkers and a weirdly ominous locked box that could hold the key to an ancient mystery. Henry and his "bug brothers" of Bug-Bee-Gone Co. prowl the barrios and bungalows of Los Angeles, where the line between order and chaos is at its thinnest - and where Henry learns that humans may be the true pests, and bugs the real exterminators.]

2 Insurgency (6-10; w Simon Oliver; a Tony Moore, Chris Samnee). [From DC Comics: The shaky borderline between mankind and nature is broken. Massed into a collective army ready to sacrifice their insect lives, the cockroaches of Los Angeles take the fight to human civilization's very infrastructure - its electrical stations and sewage treatment plants. It is an insurgency strategy that could leave mankind drowning in an ocean of its own excrement and powerless to save itself. Humanity's only hope: Henry James and the boys of Bug-Bee-Gone Co. But Henry has other issues. He's caught in a triangle between his corporate-climbing ex-girlfriend, Laura, and his new flame, a "literary hooker" named Page. As if that weren't complicated enough, his "Bug Brother" Kevin is mixed up in a bizarre and violent underworld "sport" and Henry's psychopathic, dead partner may not be dead after all - but may be even more psychopathic than ever.]

3 Lies of Our Fathers (11-16; w Simon Oliver; a Tony Moore, Mike Hawthorne, John Lucas). [From DC Comics: In this volume, the Bug-Bee-Gone boys bury one of their own while another member of the team remains missing, but the business of bug-killing must go on.]

4 Crossfire and Collateral (17-23; w Simon Oliver; a Darick Robinson, Ty Templeton, John Lucas). [From DC Comics: In this volume, with art by Darick Robertson, the Bug Bee Gone gang faces an invasion of the giant, killer cockroaches known as the Mayan Hisser.] 4/30/08