Alien Legion #20

Issue #20 of Alien Legion arrives with a cover by Frank Cirocco that plunges you straight into an unsettling blue-shadowed world of the dead — a snarling armored legionnaire lunges forward from a crowd of grotesque figures, including a gaunt vampire-like alien, a skull-faced specter with long dark hair, and a wailing creature rising from below. The story title "Dead or Alive!" feels perfectly matched to this eerie parade of unearthly menace rendered in Cirocco's moody, atmospheric linework. With Alan Zelenetz writing and Larry Stroman on interior art, this 1987 Epic Comics entry promises the kind of gritty, otherworldly adventure that made Alien Legion one of Marvel's more distinctive sci-fi offerings of the era.