Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #39

Part four of "Last Gleaming" arrives in this 2010 Dark Horse installment of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, with a painted cover by Jo Chen that places Buffy — fists clenched, expression fierce — alongside a dark-haired male figure in an intensely charged composition bathed in warm amber tones. The two figures are physically close yet visibly tense, Chen's painterly realism lending the moment a weight that feels both intimate and combative. With Joss Whedon and Scott Allie writing and Georges Jeanty on interior art, this penultimate arc chapter promises the kind of high-stakes storytelling that made Season Eight essential reading.