Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #3

Part three of "The Long Way Home" arrives with a striking image: a red-haired figure in a dramatic dark outfit channels swirling, spectral energy — a ghostly skull-like form coiling through the smoky blue air around her outstretched hand. Cover pencils by Georges Jeanty and inks by Andy Owens give the scene a moody, atmospheric tension that feels equal parts supernatural threat and raw power. Joss Whedon's continuation of the official Season Eight story was making a strong case in 2007 that Buffy's world on the page could be every bit as compelling as it was on screen.