Aliens / Predator: The Deadliest of the Species #6

Halfway through this twelve-issue Dark Horse crossover event, issue #6 of Aliens / Predator: The Deadliest of the Species arrives with a genuinely unsettling cover by John Bolton — a pale, wide-eyed woman is ensnared in writhing xenomorph tendrils while the massive, glistening silhouette of an Alien looms over her from the right. The juxtaposition of her ghostly stillness against the creature's biomechanical menace makes for one of the more atmospheric covers of the series' 1994 run. With Christopher Claremont writing and Eduardo Barreto on interior art, "Rude Awakenings" promises the sharp tension and cross-franchise dread this series has been building toward.