Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances #3

Grand Admiral Thrawn dominates this cover in a portrait of cool, calculating menace — blue-skinned, red-eyed, fingers steepled in quiet contemplation, his white Imperial uniform immaculate against a dark, starfield backdrop. Rod Reis renders him with a painterly intensity that makes the image feel less like a comic cover and more like a character study of the Empire's most cerebral tactician. With Timothy Zahn and Jody Houser co-writing and Rachelle Rosenberg's colors lending the whole series a rich, cinematic atmosphere, issue #3 promises to keep the tension as sharp as Thrawn's legendary strategic mind.