Star Trek #79

DC's long-running Star Trek series delivers high-stakes tension with issue #79, subtitled "Situation Critical!" — and the cover by Peter Krause and Jerome Moore makes good on that promise. A helmeted figure looms in close-up on the left while a desperate man in a hooded suit tumbles through open space, arms outstretched and mouth open in a shout, debris and fiery chaos erupting around him against a star-filled void with a purple planet floating eerily in the background. It's a vivid, kinetic image that sets the stage perfectly for "The Chosen, Part 2: Blood Enemies," with interior work by writer Kevin J. Ryan, artist Steve Erwin, and inker Terry Pallot.