Aliens: Defiance #6

Brian Wood's Aliens: Defiance continues its tense 2016 run with this sixth installment, "Episode Six: Incubation," and Massimo Carnevale's cover captures the series' desperate survival energy brilliantly. A woman in glasses screams defiantly as she hoists the skeletal, writhing form of a facehugger overhead, blade in hand, its grotesque limbs splayed against the murky darkness — every detail rendered in Carnevale's atmospheric, painterly style. With Tristan Jones on interior art and Dan Jackson's colors, this is the kind of issue that reminds you why Dark Horse's Aliens line has endured for thirty years.