Aliens #4

Four issues into this six-part Dark Horse series, and the tension is unmistakably building. Mark A. Nelson's cover art fills the frame with a Xenomorph looming overhead, its elongated skull, glistening inner jaw, and hooked claws rendered in striking blue and copper tones against a structured industrial background — with a second alien partially visible at the bottom, a reminder that these creatures are never alone. It's a fittingly unsettling visual midpoint for Mark Verheiden's 1989 story, capturing exactly the kind of predatory menace that made this franchise so compelling.