Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #10

With two issues left in J. Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods' twelve-part saga, issue #10 of Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle delivers a cover that puts the stakes front and center. A lone, armed resistance fighter stands his ground amid a field of skulls and roaring flames, weapon in hand and a red scarf at his belt, while a massive Hunter-Killer looms overhead and a skeletal Terminator closes in from the side — the tagline "Face to Face… With the Enemy!" says it all. Pete Woods' artwork captures the crushing scale of the machine war with real intensity, making this penultimate stretch of the series feel as urgent as it should.