Halo: Escalation #4

The cover of Halo: Escalation #4 pulls you straight into the action with a dramatic aerial dogfight — a UNSC Pelican dropship tears through a burning, debris-strewn urban environment at breakneck speed, with a Covenant Phantom looming in the smoke-filled sky above. Anthony Palumbo's cover art conveys an intense sense of motion and danger, the fiery explosions and streaking light trails giving the whole scene a desperate, high-velocity urgency. With Chris Schlerf writing and Ricardo Sánchez and Rob Lean on interior art, this 2014 Dark Horse entry in the Escalation series looks like a thrilling chapter in the ongoing Halo universe saga.