Star Trek: Red Shirts #3

The grim humor of Starfleet's most expendable crew members takes a genuinely unsettling turn with this IDW series, and cover A of issue #3 makes the stakes viscerally clear — a red-shirted Vulcan figure whose face is literally decaying into a skull, caught mid-cry in what appears to be a transporter bay's golden light. It's a striking, painterly image that distills the whole premise of Red Shirts into one haunting moment, with Cantwell, Levens, Kirchoff, and Troutman delivering a series that clearly isn't shying away from the dark comedy baked into Trek lore. If the first two issues have been on your radar, this 2025 cover alone should seal the deal.