Star Wars: The High Republic #8

A bearded Jedi stands his ground with green lightsaber ignited, his eyes glowing an unsettling shade as a massive, skull-like dark presence looms behind him with piercing blue eyes — the cover tagline says it all: "Beware… The Leveler!" Rafael de Latorre's cover art captures a genuinely foreboding tension between light and shadow that feels right at home in the High Republic era's darker corners. With Cavan Scott scripting and David Messina on interior art, issue #8 of this 2023 Marvel series promises the kind of Force-versus-darkness drama that makes this corner of Star Wars so compelling.