Star Wars The Clone Wars #12

The tagline says it all — "Dogfight, Round Two!" — and Scott Hepburn's cover delivers the tension immediately, with a determined pilot gripping the controls of his craft as a star-shaped Separatist droid fighter looms overhead, firing vivid green blaster bolts against a burning orange sky. It's a striking image that captures the high-stakes aerial combat at the heart of this third and final chapter of "Hero of the Confederacy," written by Henry Gilroy and Steven Melching with interior art by Brian Koschak. Dark Horse's 2010 Clone Wars series was doing some genuinely compelling work in this era, and this concluding installment looks ready to bring its arc to a charged finish.