Buffy the Vampire Slayer #41

Three young women — including a blonde who reads unmistakably as Buffy — stare upward in wide-eyed horror as a cluster of gnashing, skeletal blue creatures looms overhead on the cover by Jeff Matsuda. The contrast between the girls' bright, stylized figures and those jagged, snarling monsters gives the image a genuinely unsettling energy that fits "Ugly Little Monsters Part II" perfectly. With Tom Fassbender and Jim Pascoe on script and Cliff Richards on interior art, this 2002 Dark Horse entry delivers exactly the mix of teenage dread and supernatural threat that made the series a favorite.