Salvation Run #7

The seven-issue miniseries reaches its conclusion with "The Final Sacrifice," and cover artists Sean Chen and Walden Wong make the stakes feel visceral and personal — a bald, grimacing man stares out with clenched teeth, his hands slick with blood against a blazing orange background. It's a striking, unsettling close-up that suggests someone has paid a heavy price to survive whatever this alien exile has demanded. Matthew Sturges, Sean Chen, and their collaborators bring Salvation Run to a close with this 2008 finale, and the cover alone promises the series ends on anything but a quiet note.