NEWS POSTED April 24, 2009 Season 8's Georges Jeanty's Manhunter Work Buffy's Georges Jeanty continues his other art gig in July's Batman: Streets of Gotham #2, back-up feature starring Manhunter. Here is the solicitation for the issue: Now that Kate Spencer is the new District Attorney of Gotham City, will she use her legal power or her Super Hero identity to find the killer of the previous D.A.? Available July 15. Click Here for a first look at Jeanty's artwork. Angel in IDW's First Decade To commemorate its tenth anniversary, IDW Publishing is releasing a two-volume hardcover in May, 2009 called IDW: The First Decade. The book offers an oral history of the company, as told by the many talented individuals who contributed to IDW over the years. Volume 1 is currently available online. Click Here for a first look at the chapter devoted to Angel. NEWS POSTED April 21, 2009 Final Angel #24 "Drusilla" Covers Revealed Chris Ryall posted Franco Urru's two covers for Angel #24, as well as U.K. illustrator Sam Shearon's cover on his blog. Click on the images below to view full size. Black and white versions of Franco's covers can be viewed Here. Angel #20: Aftermath Available This Week Click Here to view a five page preview of the issue. Brian Lynch posted a sneak peak at Angel #23: The Gunn Story on his blog. Click Here to view now. 'Spike' actor James Marsters discussed with MTV Splash Page about his experience as a co-writer for Dark Horse's Spike & Dru One-Shot, which he describes as a 'rude awakening.' Dark Horse responded to Marsters’ comments Here. Joss Whedon News Wizard Universe posted an interview from Wizard Magazine #211 Gold Edition with Joss Whedon, where he discusses Dollhouse and ranks Buffy as a classic comic character. NEWS POSTED April 15, 2009 Angel Smile Time #3 Available Today The three-part adaptation of the beloved "Angel puppet" episode concludes as Angel takes the fight against Smile Time directly into his four-fingered, felt-covered hands. Click Here to preview the issue. In site news, the Angel @ IDW section has been updated with corrected or new color version covers for Angel: Smile Time #3, Angel: Blood and Trenches #2-4, as well as solictations for Angel Aftermath #22 and Angel: Not Fade Away #2. Buffy Season Eight, Whedon Wins Fan Awards Wizard Magazine #211 Platinum Edition celebrated the 2009 Fan Awards: Buffy Season Eight won "Favorite Licensed Comic," while Buffy herself beat out Emma Frost by eight votes to win the crown for "Favorite Heroine". Joss Whedon's Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men won "Favorite Single Issue". Laura Martin won "Favorite Colorist" for Astonishing X-Men. Site News: No Longer on Facebook :( Unfortunately, our Facebook account has been deactivated. You can still reach us via MySpace, as well as via e-mail. We've also joined Twitter, so look for postings there if you can't check the site. We are currently looking for talented graphic artists who would like to redesign some of our section banners on the site. Let us know if you're interested! NEWS POSTED April 07, 2009 Exclusive: Georges Jeanty Art; Whedonverse News The Comic Book Guide is proud to boast that its the first online venue to promote Georges Jeanty's comic convention back drop. Click Here to view full size. In other news, Dark Horse editor Scott Allie has participated in this month's SlayAlive Q&A regarding Buffy Season Eight #24: Safe. Season Eight cover artist Jo Chen has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the category Best Cover Artist. Besides her monthly Buffy cover duties, Chen will also be doing the cover for Star Wars Invasion #1 this July. Buffy Season 8 #26 Solicitation Team Buffy has become all about sneaky in a world where Slayers are now feared and hated, and vampires would rank at the top of a popularity poll. All hands are on deck as Scotland's brand-newest Slayer headquarters comes under attack; but, when things get more than a little fried, Buffy has to punt. There are yaks. Click Here to view Jo Chen's cover. Click Here to view Georges Jeanty's cover. Buffy Vol. 5 Predators & Prey TPB Solicitation Buffy's world goes awry when former-classmate-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall lands her own reality TV show, Harmony Bites, bolstering bloodsucking fiends in the mainstream. Humans line up to have their blood consumed, and Slayers, through a series of missteps, misfortunes, and anti-Slayer propaganda driven by the mysterious Twilight, are forced into hiding. In Germany, Faith and Giles discover a town where Slayers retreat from a world that has turned against them, only to find themselves in the arms of something far worse. A rogue-Slayer faction displaces an entire Italian village, living up to their tarnished reputation as power-hungry thieves. And finally, with the help of a would-be demon lover, Dawn addresses her unfaltering insecurities. Click Here to view Jo Chen's cover. Site News: Fan Art Featuring new fan art submissions by Rudy Garcia and Elfie Lebouleux respectively. Bonus: Garcia was one of the artists who worked on the Buffy toyline for DST and sculpted the "unreleased" Judge action figure and statue. If you'd like your fan art to be posted here, feel free to e-mail it to us. Click on the images below to view full size. Join Our Mailing List! To make it easier for the fans of our site, we've created a mailing list for you to sign up to be alerted whenever the site is updated. You will not receive any spam, nor will your e-mail addresses be given out. Sign up below NEWS POSTED April 01, 2009 Buffy #24 "Safe" Available Today Dark Horse has released a 2-page preview of the issue Here. Story by Jim Krueger and Cliff Richards. In other news, Buffy Season Eight won in the "Outstanding Comic Book" category in the GLAAD Media Awards. Joss Whedon teams with Season Eight cover artist Jo Chen for a special Buffy the Vampire Slayer story" in the fourth volume of MySpace Dark Horse Presents. Angel Blood And Trenches #2 Available Today Click Here to view a 5-page preview of the issue. In other news, Angel: After The Fall Volumes 1 & 3, Spike: After the Fall are featured on the New York Times Graphic Book Best Seller List.   Buffy News Buffy Summers came in at number eight on Entertainment Weekly's 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture. Click Here to read EW's 'Heroes and Villains' article. NEWS POSTED March 30, 2009 Angel #22: Aftermath Solicitation The fallout from the Fall has left Angel beset by problems both mortal and from Above, and it all comes to a head here. Angel and the Potentates face one menace while Connor and Dez have their own problems to deal with. And what about the guy with the actual wings...? Available in June. Click Here to view Gabriel Rodriguez's cover. Nick Runge's cover is located in the Angel @ IDW section. Angel Not Fade Away #2 Solicitation As their world crumbles around them, Angel and company prepare for their final battle with Wolfram & Hart and the Circle of the Black Thorn: one in which no prisoners are taken and no punches are pulled. Available in June. Click Here to view the cover. Stephen Mooney posted inks for a page from the first issue of Not Fade Away. Click Here to view. Angel Blood And Trenches #4 Solicitation The concluding issue of John Byrne's Angel WWI epic! Half a mile above the blood soaked battlefields of France, Angel must face an ancient and terrible evil, while the fate of an Empire hangs in the balance. Available in June 2009. Click Here to view the cover. Site News: Fan Art Featuring new fan art submissions by Hugo Dias, Elfie Lebouleux and Gillian Grant respectively. If you'd like your fan art to be posted here, feel free to e-mail it to us. Click on the images below to view full size. NEWS POSTED March 25, 2009 Nick Runge 'Gunn' & 'Dru' Covers Revealed IDW editor Chris Ryall posted Nick Runge's covers for Angel #23-25. Click on the thumbnails below for larger views. Click on the thumbnails below for to view full size. Joss Whedon News Whedon's Astonishing X-Mem #1-24 and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 get collected in on gigantic tome: Astonishing X-Men Omnibus HC. Available June 2009. Whedon's run in Runaways #25-30 also gets collected this month in Runaways Vol. 8: Dead End Digest. Serenity: Better Days has been nominated for Best Graphic Story in the 2009 Hugo Awards. NEWS POSTED March 23, 2009 EXCLUSIVE Chat with Juliet Landau We got to sit down with Juliet Landau for an exclusive interview and discuss her upcoming gig as co-writer of Angel: Aftermath with Brian Lynch on a two-part arc that sees the return of Drusilla, who hasn't been seen since Buffy Season Five's "Fool for Love" episode! Click Here to reroute to our in-depth interview with Landau. Angel #19: Aftermath/ Angel: After the Fall Vol. 1 HC (Second Printing) Available Now Chris Ryall has posted a five page preview of the issue Here.   NEWS POSTED March 14, 2009 Angel Wishes A Happy St. Patrick's Day Stephen Mooney posted Liam drinking a Guiness to mark this St. Patty's Day. Click Here to view. Buffy Season Eight News Scott Allie revealed on the Dark Horse Buffy Zone blog that Sarin accepted Dillon's proposal, which was originally published in Buffy #22's letter column. Buffy: Wolves at the Gate TPB was announced this week as a New York Times Best Seller, coming in at no. 9. Diamond released the February 2009 Sales Charts, with Buffy Season Eight #22 coming in at no. 12, while Angel #17 and #18 took 51st and 53rd place respectively. Fallen Angel: Reborn News Peter David posted artwork for the upcoming Fallen Angel: Reborn, which will be featuring Illyria, in her first appearance outside the Whedonverse. Click Here to view. NEWS POSTED March 14, 2009 Buffy Season Eight: Predators & Prey Cover TPB Revealed Click Here to view Jo Chen's cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Vol. 4: Predators and Prey TPB. Georges Jeanty and Scott Allie both do their monthly Q&A style interviews at SlayAlive. Angel Aftermath News IDW editor-in-chief Chris Ryall posted a colorized version of Franco Urru's cover to Angel #23: Become What You Are on his blog. Click Here to view. Angel #19: Aftermath is available next week. Comics Continuum has posted a five page sneak preview of the issue. Angel: Blood and Trenches Artwork John Byrne posted the inked cover for Angel: Blood and Trenches #4 as well as upcoming artwork from the second issue on his website. Click on the thumbnails below for to view full size. Happy 10th Birthday Comic Guide to Buffy! Wow! Ten years! That is a looong time and we're still going strong. Be on the lookout for a new interview with the infamous Juliet Landau soon, who played Drusilla on the television show and is co-writing a two-parter starring Dru in IDW's Angel. Thanks to anyone who's ever stopped by this site or added us as a buddy on our MySpace or Facebook page. Is there anything our site is not covering that you'd like to see? Have fan art you want us to post on the site? Want to graphics for our site (i.e. section banners)? Shoot us an e-mail about any of these inquiries. NEWS POSTED March 12, 2009 Buffy: Tales of the Vampires Solicitation In a small town in Massachusetts, a young man named Jacob goes about his day as usual, wakes early, eats breakfast with his mom, and heads to school. He's a hard worker and a reliable friend to Alexia, an athletic and headstrong young woman. But at night Jacob likes to cut loose at the local arcade, where he's befriended a reckless gang of vampires who enjoy drinking his blood. Jacob craves the high and the easy escape from the monotony of his life that this "bloodletting" provides. Enter the mysterious and sultry May, who can help Jacob leave those high-school days behind that is, if Alexia doesn't stop her first. June 03. Click Here to read Dark Horse Comics' press release for the issue. Click Here to view Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon's cover. Jo Chen's cover is located in the Tales of the Vampires section. MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3 Solicitation The third volume of the online comics anthology digs deeply into Dark Horse's broad range of genres and iconic characters, including Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dr. Horrible. Mike Mignola plucks a character from the backdrop of his Hellboy mythos with the debut of Witchfinder, and Dark Horse presents the first new Creepy stories since that legendary anthology ended in 1983. Click Here to view the cover full size. Available August 12. NEWS POSTED March 09, 2009 John Byrne's Angel: Blood and Trenches #1 Available This Week Comics Continuum and Chris Ryall have both posted five page previews of the issue. The book is unique in that it is printed on thick, uncoated stock with only snow-white and blood-red colors utilized and played up against John Byrne's tight pencils. Angel: After the Fall, Vol. 3 HC Also Available This Week The hardcover collection collects Angel: After the Fall #9-14. Click Here to view Alex Garner'scover. Brian Lynch announced on his blog that Angel #23's title is "Become What You Are." The story will serve as the epilogue to Angel: After the Fall. Site News: Fan Art Featuring new fan art submissions by Ryan Rydalch. If you'd like your fan art to be posted here, feel free to e-mail it to us. Click on the images below to view full size. NEWS POSTED March 03, 2009 Buffy Season Eight #23: Predators & Prey Available This Week Scott Allie spoke from the Comic Con in New York about Buffy Season Eight with Newsarama. Georges Jeanty also did a video interview at Comic Con with BuffyFest Blog. Wizard Magazine #210 features Buffy meeting Fray among their 25 favorite comic book team-ups. Angel #23 "Gunn" Cover Revealed Brian Lynch posted Franco Urru's black and white cover art for Angel #23 on his blog. Click Here to view the cover full size. The issue will explain how Gunn woke up from his coma and was moving about in last week's Angel Aftermath #18. Lynch also announced that Spike: Shadow Puppets TPB has sold out and will get a second printing. Buffy Season 8 News: Daniel Osbourne Alert More information about Jane Espenson's "Oz" story arc beginning in Buffy Season Eight #26 was revealed at the Wonder Con 09: Dark Horse Panel: "The next story arc revolves around "slayers being outlaws and trying to regroup since vampires took charge during the reality show that took place in the last arc", said Atkins. Along with that tidbit of information regarding the main Buffy series, a Tales of the Vampire one shot was announced coming this July, which will essentially be a vampire love story set in season eight of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. NEWS POSTED March 01, 2009 Nick Runge's Fallen Angel #1 Cover As previously reported, IDW's Fallen Angel is coming back in July, and with her will be Illyria for the initial four-part story. The book will still be written by Peter David and art by JK Woodward (who will also provide a cover for the first issue, alongside the already-shown Franco Urru cover). The debut issue, in July, will also feature a special 1:10 incentive cover from Angel cover artist Nick Runge. Click Here to view Runge's cover full size. Angel: Smile Time #3 Cover Posted Chris Ryall revealed David Messina's cover for Angel Smile Time #3 on his blog. Click Here to view the cover full size. In other Angel news, Kelley Armstrong answers Buffyfest's questions about Angel Aftermath Here. Site News: Fan Art Featuring our first fan art submission, an Angel After the Fall montage by John Leitner. If you'd like your fan art to be posted here, feel free to e-mail it to us. Click on the image to view full size. NEWS POSTED February 22, 2009 EXCLUSIVE Interview with Angel After the Fall artist Franco Urru! We got to sit down with Italian artist extraordinaire Franco Urru for an exclusive interview!!! Click Here to reroute to our in-depth interview with the man! Angel #18 Available This Week The issue marks the change in subtitle from "After the Fall" to "Aftermath". Story by Kelley Armstrong and art by Dave Ross. In other news, Newsarama posted Diamond's January '09 Sales Charts & Market Share, with Buffy #21 coming in at no. 10 and Angel: After The Fall #16 taking 47th place. NEWS POSTED February 20, 2009 Buffy Season Eight #23 Preview Newsarama has an exclusive preview of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #23: Predators & Prey, by Drew Greenberg and Georges Jeanty. Available March 04 2009. In other news, Jim Krueger discusses with Comic Book Resources about his standalone Faith/Giles issue -- Buffy Season Eight #24: "Safe". Angel Not Fade Away News Stephen Mooney posted his inks for a page from the third issue of the comic book adaptation of the Angel television finale "Not Fade Away," featuring Wesley battling against Cyvus Vail. Click Here to view the image full size. NEWS POSTED February 18, 2009