Aliens: Colonial Marines #6

The halfway point of this twelve-issue Dark Horse series arrives with a cover by Joe Phillips that crackles with raw, firelit tension — a heavily armed, battle-scarred marine in a backward red cap braces himself against a swarm of Xenomorph claws closing in from every direction, flames and alien limbs filling the background in equal measure. His sheer defiance, shotgun leveled and jaw set, captures exactly the desperate-but-determined spirit of the Colonial Marines universe. With Kelley Puckett writing and Paul Guinan and Allen Nunis on interior art, issue six of twelve keeps this 1993 series pushing hard toward its conclusion.