Star Wars Doctor Aphra Annual #2

Doctor Aphra sprints across the cover in her signature pilot's helmet and red-trimmed jacket, looking urgently over her shoulder while an enormous, spike-covered creature looms behind her — its coiling tail and jagged claws filling the frame with a real sense of scale and danger. Caspar Wijngaard's cover art balances Aphra's scrappy energy against the creature's overwhelming presence beautifully, with a vivid red ground and cool, dark cave tones making the whole composition pop. Si Spurrier and Wijngaard team up for this 2018 annual, titling the story "Winloss and Nokk" — promising the kind of offbeat, galaxy-spanning trouble that makes Aphra one of the Star Wars universe's most entertaining rogues.