Aliens: Labyrinth #3

The penultimate chapter of Dark Horse's four-part Labyrinth series delivers one of 1993's most viscerally unsettling covers: a man's face frozen in a silent scream as a skeletal alien hand clamps across his jaw, the creature's amber-toned form pressing close in a sickly, claustrophobic embrace. Kilian Plunkett's cover work is striking in its raw physicality, rendering the horror up-close and personal rather than at a safe distance. With Jim Woodring and Ryder Windham steering the story, this issue promises the kind of psychological tension that sets Labyrinth apart from a straightforward action romp.