There are so many different kinds of comics, and it’s never bad to like or dislike a certain category, but some of them always seem capable of concentrating public reactions and loathing feelings. Those are the cynical, ironic, macabre sometimes, full of black humor and far-sighted remarks, comics like Hellblazer, Transmetropolitan, The Boys and so many others. One of them is Exterminators, at first look a splatter, old school horror comic about bugs but also a perceptive look on our community, its clichés and dark secrets.
Written by Simon Oliver the Exterminators is the story of, what else, an exterminating company ready to kill your bugs, rats, termites, heck whatever crawls in your walls and chews your leftovers. Not much you’d say, and you’d be wrong, for there’s more in this story. Like an insecticide company, Draxx, creating a new product that not only doesn’t kill pests but makes them huge, scary and extremely dangerous. Or the dark past of these characters which sometimes takes place in American prisons and others in eastern civil 
This May with issue 17 the Exterminators begin a new story arc, “Showdown at Scatshot”, featuring guest art by Ty Templeton (Batman Adventures, The Simpsons). Stretch and Saloth (that creepy guy) visit a convention of exterminators where there are more going one than what meets the eye. Stretch finally confronts his sinister past and Saloth gets a tip about Draxx and what’s being created there. If you feel at all intrigued pick up this issue, it’s a pretty good point to check if you like the series and then look for the previous albums! –>
