The Terminator #9

Dynamite's The Terminator #9 opens with a genuinely unsettling close-up: the machine's face fills the entire cover, its synthetic flesh scorched, torn, and peeling away to reveal the cold endoskeleton beneath — one mechanical eye glowing red through the wreckage of a human-looking visage. It's an intensely visceral image that captures everything unnerving about the franchise in a single unflinching portrait, rendered with remarkable detail by Declan Shalvey, who handles pencils, inks, and colors entirely on his own. If you've been following this series, issue #9 promises to keep that pressure squarely on.