Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel #3

This 2009 IDW prequel series keeps building toward the world of Terminator: Salvation, and issue #3 delivers a cover that sets the tone perfectly. Nick Runge's painted-style artwork depicts four battle-worn resistance fighters — armed with rifles and moving with hard-earned purpose — converging around the downed, exposed skull of a Terminator endoskeleton on the ground before them. It's a gritty, atmospheric composition that captures the desperate, post-apocalyptic spirit of the film it leads into.