Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #6

Halfway through its twelve-issue run, Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #6 from Dark Horse delivers a cover that crackles with menace — a skeletal Terminator endoskeleton, half-sheathed in torn muscle and tissue, clutches a set of dog tags reading "Marcus Wright" while electric-blue energy arcs across its metallic frame. The tagline "No fate… but what we make!" grounds the image firmly in the franchise's spirit of desperate resistance against a machine future. Pete Woods's cover art is visceral and dynamic, and with J. Michael Straczynski guiding the story inside, this 2014 series continues to be a worthy exploration of the post-apocalyptic war for humanity's survival.