Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #40

The final chapter of "Last Gleaming" arrives in this 2011 Dark Horse conclusion to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, and Jo Chen's painted cover sets a quietly devastating tone — Buffy stands alone, head bowed, gripping a broken Scythe with both hands, her expression heavy with exhaustion and hard-won resolve. That shattered weapon and the weight she carries in her posture say more than any tagline could about the cost of being the Slayer. With Joss Whedon writing and Georges Jeanty on interior art, this is the issue that closes out Season Eight in style.