Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #19

This fourth and final chapter of "Time of Your Life" arrives with one of Jo Chen's most unsettling covers: a close-up of a young woman's face, pallid and slightly sinister, with an otherworldly golden eye that hints at something dark stirring beneath the surface. The painterly detail Chen brings to that searching, ambiguous expression makes it hard to look away — there's beauty and danger occupying the same breath. Joss Whedon and Karl Moline close out this arc in a 2008 Dark Horse issue that wears its tension right on its cover.