Aliens: Dead Orbit (2017)

Four issues that get closer to the dread of the first Alien film than most of the sequels did. James Stokoe wrote and drew it alone, which shows: every pipe, rivet and frosted window of the space station Sphacteria is rendered in obsessive detail, so the station itself feels like a character closing in on its crew. The story cuts between an engineer named Wascylewski stranded alone in the present and the past events that left him there, and the structure turns a familiar monster into a slow-burn puzzle. You need nothing beyond knowing what a xenomorph is. The fourth issue's timeline is the hardest to follow, so read it in one sitting, ideally in the collected hardcover.