Formic Wars: Burning Earth #2

The second chapter of Orson Scott Card's Formic Wars: Burning Earth arrives with a striking Jenny Frison cover that frames a crouching, anguished young man at its center, head in hands, while three looming presences—a menacing alien Formic and two human figures rendered in deep crimson—tower over him like a crushing weight. The composition immediately conveys the psychological and physical pressure of humanity's desperate struggle against an extraterrestrial threat. With Aaron Johnston co-writing and Giancarlo Caracuzzo handling the interior art, this 2011 Marvel series continues its adaptation of Card's Ender's Game universe with a sense of genuine dread.