Aliens: Hive #2

The cover of this second chapter in Dark Horse's four-part Aliens: Hive miniseries delivers an unsettling, almost dreamlike confrontation: a crouching Xenomorph looms over a calm, sitting dog on a stark, sandy plain beneath a hazy, misted sky. The stark contrast between the alien's coiled menace and the dog's quiet stillness gives the image a quietly haunting power, with a small blue sphere resting in the foreground adding one more eerie detail. Kelley Jones's cover art — all shadow and sinuous line — brings a distinctly moody sensibility to the Aliens universe that sets this 1992 series apart.