Source: vertigocomics.com
8. Clean Room
(Vertigo)
Gail Simone is so flipping good.
And Clean Room is no exception. In the series, which is drawn by Jon Davis-Hunt, Astrid Mueller is a disposable horror writer who turns her mediocre genre fiction into a cult-like religion. Which is so outlandish, because there totally haven't been any especially lawsuit-happy pseudo religions spawned from crappy genre fiction authors in real life. *Cough cough*.
Anyhoozles, after losing her husband to the cult's machinations, reporter Chloe Pierce decides to investigate Astrid and dismantle her cult. But what if the weird demons and interdimensional beings Astrid preaches about to her followers AREN'T made up? What if they're real? And really dangerous? Really, really dangerous. Oh, but just because Astrid is right, it doesn't mean that she isn't a monster.
Simone's writing is both funny and scary, and Davis-Hunt's artwork communicates gore and grit incredibly well. His "acting" is also really good, and each character's emotions – even the subtle ones – can be read from his faces. And from his unholy Lovecraftian monsters.
