Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #5

Part five of "Fortune and Fate: Power Play" puts Doctor Aphra in a tense spot, and Valentina Remenar's cover captures it vividly — Aphra, goggles pushed up on her flight cap, clutches a glowing red artifact in one hand and a blue one in the other, her expression caught somewhere between alarm and determination. Looming behind her is a pale, unsettling figure with mismatched glowing eyes and a quietly menacing smile, enormous hands nearly encircling her from both sides. Writer Alyssa Wong and artist Marika Cresta bring the galaxy's most reckless rogue archaeologist to Marvel in 2020, and this issue makes it clear that whatever power Aphra has stumbled onto, someone — or something — very dangerous wants it too.