Buffy the Vampire Slayer #17

Two young women stand back-to-back under a pale full moon — one gripping a wooden stake, the other poised and ready — while a shadowy, dark-haired figure lurks ominously behind them in the rocky darkness. It's a tense, atmospheric composition from cover penciler Jeff Matsuda and inker Jon Sibal that captures the duality and danger at the heart of this seventh chapter of the "Bad Blood" arc. With the creative team of Andi Watson, Cliff Richards, Joe Pimentel, and Guy Major delivering the interior, this 2000 Dark Horse entry is a compelling slice of Sunnydale storytelling.