Buffy the Vampire Slayer #46

Issue #46 of Dark Horse's long-running Buffy the Vampire Slayer series presents a striking cover by Paul Lee — two figures rendered back-to-back in sharp contrast: a pale, white-haired woman in a black top, cigarette smoke curling from her fingers, dominates the foreground with a cool, unsettling stare, while a blonde Buffy stands behind her, profile turned away. The moody, desaturated palette and tense composition perfectly capture the friction suggested by the story's title, "Withdrawal." Writers Tom Fassbender and Jim Pascoe, with interior art by Paul Lee and colors by Michelle Madsen, round out a creative team that made this 2002 series a compelling companion to the television phenomenon.