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POSTED February 29,
2008 |
 Buffy Season Eight News
Joss Whedon's Runaways #29, Astonishing X-Men # 24 and Angel After the Fall #4 all came out last week.
Georges Jeanty has been nominated for Best Artist in the 2008 Glyph Comics Awards. For his work on the Buffy Season 8 comics. The winners will be announced at the May 16-17 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention in Philadelphia. To the right is Jeanty's variant cover for #14. Click Here for a bigger size.
Initial Season Eight cover artist Jo Chen returns to the title with issue #16. She recently posted this cover on her MySpace blog. Click Here to view, but beware... it contains massive spoilers. |
Serenity: Better Days Triptych United
 Dark Horse released the three Adam Hughes covers for "Serenity: Better Days" compiled as one picture. Click Here to view full size. |
Angel: After the Fall News
IDW will be releasing an 'Angel: After The Fall ' #1 Director's Cut Edition in May. It'll have Brian Lynch's complete script and his writer's annotations. IDW has also released plot info for issue 7: "Angel lost the battle. Los Angeles was sent to hell. The story of what happened during that fateful first night concludes. The answers you've been waiting for, the stories you wanted to see. Heroes will fall, new champions will rise, and you'll also see the long-awaited return of... right, like we're going to tell you here."
Below are the Angel: After the Fall Time and Space Toys/SlayAlive retailer variant covers for issues 5, 6 and 7 respectively. Pencils and inks by Stephen Mooney, colored by Lisa Jackson. Click on thumbnails for larger size."
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NEWS
POSTED February 14,
2008 |
 Buffy Season Eight News
The solicitation and Jon Foster cover for Buffy #14 have been posted in the 'BtVS Season 8' section of our site. Out in stores May 07, 2008.
Leave Your Spandex @ The Door blog reviewed Buffy #11 Here.
Buffy Season 8 Vol One nominated for Kids' Choice Award. The award ceremony will be shown on the Nickelodeon networkon March 29th. |
 Serenity: Better Days #3 Solicit.
Better Days concludes with a brutal showdown when one of Serenity's crew is taken captive and tortured. The gang must put their enduring differences aside and work together to save one of their own, even if it may mean losing the cash prize of a lifetime Out in stores, May 14th, 2008.
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More Angel First Night Artwork Revealed
IDW editor Chris Ryall posted pages from First Night, an array of short stories, all handled by different artists and each one finally revealing what these characters the night of the big, apocalyptic fight in the alley at the conclusion of Angel Season 5. The pages in question deal with from "Lorne" (art by John Byrne, colors by Len O'Grady) and "Spike" (art by David Messina, colors by Ilaria Traversi).
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NEWS
POSTED February 11,
2008 |
Buffy Season Eight #11 Out In Stores Now
 Comic Book Resources has both covers and the first five pages of issue #12, the first in Drew Goddard's four-issue arc, "Wolves at the Gate" Here. To publicize the issue's upcoming release, Dark Horse has posted a puzzle game on their website of the Georges Jeanty cover.
Fans over at SlayAlive.com put together a list of questions about Season 8, Serenity and more which editor Scott Allie answered. |
 Angel First Night Artwork Revealed
IDW editor Chris Ryall posted a page from Wesley's "First Night" tale in an upcoming issue of Angel After the Fall. Art is by Nick Runge and colors by John Rauch. Click on the artwork to view full size.
TFAW.com revealed the complete cover to Angel After the Fall #6, complete with the hidden character. Click Here to view the cover. |
Daniel Osbourne Alert
 According to comics gossip columnist Rich Johnston something major is going to happen in Buffy #12 and retailers have been urged to order extra copies. With the story arc titled "Wolves at the Gate,' and Dark Horse editor Scott Allie's announcement last year that Oz was slated to return to the fold at some point, this issue may mark his reapparance. |
NEWS
POSTED January 28,
2008 |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer News
 Scott Allie updates the Buffy Zone editorial to discuss Cloverfield and Goddard's 4-issue upcoming arc on Buffy Here.
Diamond's 2007 Year-End sales charts have been released, and Buffy's first six issues make Dark Horse's only appearances in the Top 100.
To the right is Georges Jeanty's alternate cover to Buffy Season Eight #15. Click Here to view the cover. |
Solicitation for Angel After the Fall #6
First Night begins! What happened on the very night Los Angeles went straight to hell, the incident that ended the Angel television series with such a shocking cliffhanger? Why did the team go their separate ways? And how did Connor rise up to become one of Hell’s greatest champions? This first issue of a two-part series-within-a-series has the answers you’ve been waiting for! By Joss Whedon, Brian Lynch and a host of comic’s greatest artists, including John Byrne, Sean Galloway, David Messina, and more!. Available April, 2008.
Below are a pinup for Angel: First Night by colorist Art Lyon, and Rebecca Wrigley's combined covers for Angel After the Fall #6 and 7.
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 Wizard's Celebration of Astonishing X-Men #24
It took four years to produce 24 issues, but most fans agree that Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s run on Marvel’s flagship mutants was worth the wait. With Astonishing X-Men #24, which stores January 23, Whedon and Cassaday will be putting the finishing touches on their collaboration with the end of “Unstoppable,” an arc that sees the team still stuck in the middle of a contentious Breakworld. (Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1, shipping in February, will be their last effort on the title.) For the 411 on the big finale, Wizard Magainze turned to X-editor Nick Lowe for a quick ’n dirty Q&A Here.
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NEWS
POSTED January 16,
2008 |
Solicitation for Buffy Season Eight #13
 Drew Goddard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, Lost, and the writer of Cloverfield), continues his story arc “Wolves at the Gate,” which has Buffy and the gang fighting a team of über vamps in Tokyo. In order to better understand their mysterious new foes, Xander must recruit an old ally to join in their cause to defeat this new danger. Click
Here to view Georges Jeanty's cover.
Joss Whedon continues as executive producer, Georges Jeanty (The American Way) as series artist, with Jon Foster on covers. Available April 02, 2008. |
Solicitation for Buffy Omnibus Vol. 4
 Volume Four of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus series concludes Buffy's high school career, wrapping up Season Three of the show's storyline. Collected in this volume are: The complete "Bad Blood," saga written by Andi Watson (Clubbing), the first attempt at making a "season" of the comics, where Buffy battles a sultry vampire who hungers for a lot more than blood; the first comics work by Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series writer Doug Petrie, and critically acclaimed artists Eric Powell (The Goon), Ryan Sook (Star Wars: Rebellion), and Cliff Richards (Buffy Season Eight #10), whose stories follow the Scoobies through their final year at Sunnydale High; and
includes the first Angel miniseries, The Hollower, written by acclaimed Buffy novelist, Christopher Golden (Baltimore: or the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire). Available May 02, 2007. |
Buffy Season 8/Angel: After the Fall News
Dark Horse has issued a hardcover collection of the “Long Way Home” storyline by Joss Whedon from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8. It was given out as a thank-you to retailers, much like they did with Sin City: The Hard Goodbye. Prices on eBay have been fluctuating around $20, so pick one up while you still can!.
Angel After the Fall #3 hits stores today. Buffy Season 8: No Future You TPB has a release date of June 04, 2008.
Wizard Magazine gives us a brief rundown of what to expect from upcoming issues of Buffy season 8, Serenity: Better Days and Angel: After The Fall. Click
Here to read it. IGN has released a seven page preview of Buffy #11 Here. |
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