Spike: Asylum #5

Franco Urru's cover for this 2007 IDW finale brings the heat — literally — as Spike strides forward through a wall of flames, clutching a glowing green-flamed torch with steely resolve. Flanking him are a young girl with crackling, supernatural energy emanating from her hands and a striking woman looming large in the fiery background, while a ghostly translucent figure lingers in the inferno behind them. It's a vivid, charged image that wraps up Brian Lynch's Spike: Asylum arc with all the brooding intensity the bleach-blond vampire deserves.