Aliens: Berserker #3

The cover of this third chapter in the four-issue Aliens: Berserker series drops you straight into crisis — a battered woman with wild blonde hair is pinned against a wall, face-to-face with a snarling Xenomorph whose claws reach terrifyingly close, its inner jaw extended in full threat display. Kilian Plunkett's cover art makes the desperation visceral, all gritty linework and shadow that sells the raw danger of the "Suicide Run!" chapter beautifully. With Wagner, Mendoza, and Mushynsky driving the story, this 1995 Dark Horse series continues to deliver the kind of high-stakes human-versus-alien tension the franchise does best.