Mars Attacks: First Born #4

The fourth and final issue of this True Believers Comic Awards winner closes out the miniseries that earned praise as "a touching, dream-like read" — and Sam Kieth's cover delivers exactly that unsettling dreaminess, filling the frame with a massive, looming Martian skull-face whose red-pupiled eyes stare out with cold menace from behind its glass helmet. Tucked beneath that enormous alien visage, a small human face peers upward, dwarfed and vulnerable against the creature's overwhelming presence. With Kieth handling writing, art, inks, and colors alongside co-writer Chris Ryall, this is an intensely personal creative vision that stands apart from typical alien-invasion fare.