Buffy the Vampire Slayer #19

Part of BOOM! Studios' "Ring of Fire" arc, this nineteenth issue of Jordie Bellaire and Jeremy Lambert's Buffy the Vampire Slayer series turns the spotlight away from the action and into the anxious, illuminated space of research. David López's cover depicts a bespectacled man hunched over a cluttered desk, one hand pressed to his forehead as he pores over an open tome filled with sketched figures — compasses, books, and a globe surrounding him in warm, tense light. It's a quietly gripping image that suggests the weight of knowledge and the pressure of piecing together answers before time runs out.