Aliens: Colonial Marines #8

That cover by Joe Phillips stops you cold — a man's face fills the frame, his blood-red eyes burning with intensity while a chaotic tangle of wires and circuitry erupts from his skull like a grotesque crown. It's a striking, unsettling image that perfectly captures the body-horror tension running through this Kelley Puckett–written series. Issue eight of ten, with interior art by Paul Guinan and John Nadeau, keeps Dark Horse's 1994 Aliens: Colonial Marines saga building toward its conclusion.