Star Wars: Jedi Council: Acts of War #2

The second chapter of this four-part Dark Horse miniseries puts the Jedi Council front and center in a galaxy under pressure. Davide Fabbri's cover looms with a massive, respirator-masked alien figure dominating the background while a Jedi in robes — lightsaber ignited — braces amid a chaotic press of creatures and spears in the foreground. It's a vivid snapshot of the tension writer Randy Stradley is building across this series, and with Fabbri's linework carrying both the grandeur and the grit, issue two makes a strong case for picking up the whole run.