Battlestar Galactica #8

Dynamite's Battlestar Galactica series hits its eighth issue with a cover that puts the tension front and center — a determined blonde woman charges forward with her rifle blazing, blue energy bolts and spent casings flying, while a dark-haired male fighter takes cover and returns fire behind her in a smoke-filled corridor. Nigel Raynor's cover art crackles with kinetic energy, selling the sense of a desperate, close-quarters firefight in the gritty world fans of the reimagined series know well. Writer Greg Pak and artist Raynor continue their run here, and if the cover is any indication, the story inside keeps the pressure dialed up high.