Buffy the Vampire Slayer #44

Part two of "The Death of Buffy" arrives in this 2002 Dark Horse issue, and the cover sets a genuinely haunting tone — Buffy's face looms large and luminous above the scene, eyes cast downward, while a platinum-blond Spike lights a cigarette below, flanked on either side by dark-cloaked, hooded figures holding glowing objects. The painterly cover art by Paul Lee and Brian Horton gives the whole composition a moody, elegiac weight that feels entirely fitting for a story carrying that title. With Tom Fassbender and Jim Pascoe writing alongside interior art from Cliff Richards, this is a chapter that promises real emotional stakes for fans of the Slayer.