Aliens / Predator: The Deadliest of the Species #7

Issue seven of this twelve-part Dark Horse series delivers one of the most unsettling covers of 1994: a woman's face, eerily calm and statuesque, is trapped within the clutching limbs of a massive Alien that looms over her with its fanged inner jaw agape. John Bolton's painted cover work gives the image a chilling, almost photorealistic quality that makes the threat feel viscerally close. Christopher Claremont and Eduardo Barreto's collaboration continues here, and the bonus Aliens/Predator cover gallery tucked inside makes this installment an especially satisfying chapter in the crossover saga.