The Exterminators (comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series (canceled at issue #30) |
| Publication date | March 2006 – August 2008 |
| Number of issues | 30 |
| Main character(s) | Henry James Laura Stretch Page Christie Kevin Nils Peterson Dr. Saloth Sar |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Simon Oliver |
| Artist(s) |
Tony Moore (interior art) Philip Bond Darick Robertson (covers) |
| Penciller(s) | Tony Moore Darick Robertson, John Lucas, and others |
| Inker(s) |
Ande Parks Sean Parsons Tony Moore |
| Colorist(s) | Brian Buccellato |
| Creator(s) | Simon Oliver Tony Moore |
| Collected editions | |
| Bug Brothers | |
| Insurgency | |
| Lies of our FathersN5 | |
| Crossfire and Collateral | |
| Bug Brothers Forever | |
The Exterminators was an American monthly comic book series, published under the Vertigo imprint by DC Comics. The comic was created by writer Simon Oliver and artist Tony Moore and follows the employees of the Bug-Bee-Gone extermination company. The book is notable for its graphic and darkly humorous take on the extermination business. The first issue was released on January 4, 2006. At the 2007 San Diego Comic Con it was announced that the series had been cancelled and would finish at issue 30. The series had initially been envisioned as a 50-issue series.
The Exterminators initial incarnation was a TV pitch and pilot outline as writer Simon Oliver was working in the film industry at the time. After consideration Oliver realized the story wasn't really network material. Oliver then decided to pitch it to a comic book publisher. Luckily a film producer friend of Oliver had become good friends with Karen Berger of Vertigo Comics after they had discussed 100 Bullets. Through this friend the pitch of The Exterminators reached an interested publisher quickly. After some reworking with editor Jon Vankin the project was greenlit and the first issue was released January 2006.
A short preview of the comic before its initial release appeared in an issue of Y: The Last Man.
The main character of The Exterminators is Henry James. Fresh out of jail, he starts working for his stepfather Nils Peterson's extermination company Bug-Bee-Gone. Henry lives in an apartment with his girlfriend Laura, a high level employee of Ocran Industries, manufacturers of chemical products. One of these products is Draxx, a new poisonous gel for exterminating cockroaches. Draxx has some serious side effects which have been discovered by Dr. Saloth Sar, the in house scientist of Bug-Bee-Gone. (Saloth Sar is also the birth name of the infamous Cambodian leader Pol Pot.)
Henry is training with his partner, AJ, under Bug-Be-Gone, an extermination company ran by Henry's father, Nils. Henry is out of prison, and after AJ overdoses on Draxx, the insect-killing gel Bug-Be-Gone uses, the police try to solve a break in at the extermination company.
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