Jessica Alba Strips Down to Her Bikini for 'Entertainment Weekly' Cover

Um, is Entertainment Weekly having trouble moving copies on the newsstand? The magazine's latest issue could easily be mistaken for Maxim, with a bikini-clad and dripping wet Jessica Alba on its cover.

Alba is part of EW's "Your Summer Must List," appearing to promote Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. That movie opens on Aug. 22, so Alba can definitely appear on a summer-must list.

And who better to heat up its cover than Jessica Alba, the midriff-baring star of Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Alba returns as lasso-swinging stripper Nancy Callahan in the hyper-violent, hyper-sexy, hyper-everything sequel to 2005′s live-action comic book, co-directed once more by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. But this time, Alba’s character has a little more bite. “She was more naive in the first film. Ignorance was bliss,” Alba says. “In this one there’s no bliss and no ignorance. I wanted her to transition from being a victim to being someone who’s in control of her own story.”

The latest issue of EW hits stands this Friday. We'll let you know if Alba has anything else to share.