Alien: The Original Screenplay #4

Part four of Dark Horse's adaptation of Dan O'Bannon's original Alien screenplay delivers a cover that is quietly devastating: a lone figure, head bowed and half-swallowed by darkness, with both a silvery liquid and a trail of red running down her face — a striking image of dread suspended between grief and something far more unsettling. Guilherme Balbi's cover art leans into shadow and stillness rather than spectacle, letting that single illuminated face carry the full weight of the story's tension. If the series has been building toward something harrowing, this fourth issue looks poised to deliver it.