Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 #5

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 wraps up its opening arc with issue #5, "New Rules, Part Five," and Steve Morris's cover delivers a suitably intense send-off — a bleach-blond figure wielding a spiked weapon grapples mid-air with a monstrous, dark-haired creature, the two locked in a desperate struggle against a swooping, winged demon looming in the background. The dynamic composition captures that signature Buffyverse tension between the human and the monstrous, rendered with a cool, cinematic palette of blues and grays. With Christos Gage and Nicholas Brendon co-writing and Rebekah Isaacs bringing the interior pages to life, this 2014 Dark Horse chapter is a strong showcase of the season's creative team at full throttle.