Bad Planet #5

From Image Comics in 2008, Bad Planet #5 features a cover by Michael Wm. Kaluta that immediately commands attention — a massive, biomechanical alien entity dominates the composition, its layered carapace and articulated limbs rendered in unsettling organic detail against a vast, cathedral-like interior space. The subtitle "The Convict's Story" promises a tale with grit and personal stakes, with 14 pages of what the cover itself bills as "pulse-pounding painted art" by Dave Kendall. Writers Thomas Jane and Steve Niles continue to push this sci-fi horror series into genuinely strange territory, and Kaluta's intricate cover art sets the mood perfectly.