Buffy the Vampire Slayer #17

Part of BOOM! Studios' "Ring of Fire" arc, this 2020 issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer puts a bespectacled young man — clutching a book tightly to his chest — front and center, his expression tense and wary. Behind him, a long library table is lined with an unsettling assembly of monstrous, pale-faced figures watching him in eerie silence. David López's cover art renders the scene with a moody, watercolor-like atmosphere that makes the quiet threat feel genuinely unnerving — a great showcase for the supernatural tension Jordie Bellaire and Jeremy Lambert bring to this series.