Aliens: Survival #3

The concluding chapter of Dark Horse's Aliens: Survival arrives with a cover that crackles with desperate, close-quarters intensity — two heavily armed soldiers in combat gear grapple in a burst of firelight, one bearing a skull-and-crossbones emblem, with the unmistakable suggestion of xenomorph forms lurking at the edges of the chaos. Vance and Davis bring a raw, visceral energy to this final issue, framing human conflict and alien threat in the same suffocating frame. It's a fittingly tense sendoff to a three-part survival story that never let its characters — or readers — catch their breath.