Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, comic about crime-fighting worm and his corpse

Ben Templesmith's comic "Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse" walks a fine line between icky and funny, and it walks it very well. Wormwood is a tiny, sentient worm that pilots a rotting corpse (complete with inverted pentagram carved into its forehead) around, steering from his vantage-point in the corpse's right eye-socket. His sidekicks include a clanking mechanical steampunk android with a fetish for small arms and an ultra-violent stripper who can cause wings to burst forth from her back.

They fight crime.

Of course.

The artwork in this one is just fabulous -- muddy watercolors streaked with savage tentacle-beasts and shambling horrors from nether-hells. Templesmith draws good gore, too.

The first collected volume was a hoot -- I'm looking forward to reading this one for a long time. Link