Buffy the Vampire Slayer #22

Part of BOOM! Studios' "Ring of Fire" arc, this twenty-second issue of Jordie Bellaire and Jeremy Lambert's run delivers a quietly unsettling cover by David López — Buffy stands alone beneath a fiery orange sky on a desolate suburban road, stake in hand, while an ominous looming shadow stretches toward her from the foreground. The composition says everything without showing too much: something is closing in, and she's the only thing standing between it and the glowing storefronts behind her. A moody, atmospheric entry point into what promises to be a tense chapter of this 2021 reimagining.