Aliens: Life and Death #1

The tagline says it all: "Those who die are the lucky ones." David Palumbo's cover makes that chilling promise viscerally real, depicting a soldier in combat gear being overwhelmed and dragged down by xenomorphs — claws and biomechanical limbs closing in from every angle while a snarling Alien looms large overhead. This is part nine of Dark Horse's sprawling seventeen-part Life and Death crossover, written by Dan Abnett with art by Moritat and colors by Rain Beredo, and it hits the ground running as chapter one of this four-issue Aliens installment.