Alien: The Original Screenplay #5

Part of Dark Horse's adaptation of Dan O'Bannon and Cristiano Seixas's original screenplay, this fifth issue arrives with a cover by Guilherme Balbi that puts the terror front and center: a grotesque, multi-limbed facehugger creature crouches against a deep, murky darkness, its dripping form rendered in unsettling greens and blacks. The image is stripped-down and visceral — no human presence, just the creature suspended in shadow, which makes it all the more unnerving. If you've been following this faithful comics translation of O'Bannon's foundational vision, issue five is exactly the kind of payoff the series has been building toward.