Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron #12

The four-part "Battleground: Tatooine" arc comes to a head in this 1996 Dark Horse finale, with a cover by Mark Harrison that throws two fighters — a white-haired woman armed with a blaster and a heavily armored, shouting warrior brandishing a weapon overhead — headlong into a chaos of explosions and screaming TIE fighters tangling with X-Wings in the sky above. The sense of ground-level desperation set against that aerial dogfight makes the cover feel like two battles colliding at once, perfectly capturing the arc's promise of all-out conflict on one of the galaxy's most storied desert worlds. Writers Michael A. Stackpole and Jan Strnad, with interior art by John Nadeau, wrap up what looks to be a thoroughly satisfying showdown.