Star Wars: Legacy #8

Subtitled "Raiders from the Ring!" right on the cover, this 2013 Dark Horse entry in the Star Wars: Legacy series puts its young protagonist front and center — weapon drawn, dark hair flying — as two massive, clawed alien hands close in on her from either side against a backdrop of towering glass and distant starships. Agustin Alessio's cover art crackles with kinetic tension, framing the confrontation with a real sense of desperate, outnumbered peril. With Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman at the helm of "Outcasts of the Broken Ring, Part 3," this issue promises the kind of gritty, fast-moving Star Wars storytelling that made this volume so engaging.