Common Foe #4

The penultimate issue of this 2006 Image/Desperado series arrives with a cover by Jean Jacques Dzialowski that drops you straight into the chaos — a helmeted soldier blazing away with a firearm, muzzle flash erupting brilliantly against a purple sky, while monstrous, spindly alien creatures close in from every direction. Writers Keith Giffen and Shannon Denton earned praise from Entertainment Entertainment Weekly for their "rat-a-tat narrative," and Federico Dallocchio's interior art brings the same visceral energy to the pages within. If you've been following humanity's desperate stand against these grotesque invaders, issue #4 keeps the tension wound tight.