Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #10

Buffy's face dominates this striking 2012 Dark Horse cover by Phil Noto, her expression caught somewhere between uncertainty and resolve as a swirling spiral of accusatory voices — including the pointed question "Where's Willow?" — wraps around her like a storm of doubt. Those unsettling green eyes looming at the edges of the composition add an eerie, watchful tension that perfectly sets the mood for "Apart (of me), Part Three." With Andrew Chambliss and Scott Allie writing alongside artist Cliff Richards, this tenth issue of Season 9 promises the kind of emotional complexity that makes this continuation of the Buffyverse so compelling.