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POSTED August 30,
2007 |
Brian K. Vaughan News
 'Lost’ writer Brian K. Vaughan talked about his next-week debut on Buffy Season Eight and his direct-to-DVD Buffy screenplay that never saw light with Wizard. Get a first look at the Jo Chen's issue #9 cover as well as the upcoming ‘Volume 2’ trade Here.
TVGuide.com also released an exclusive mini interview with BKV, revealing one oother previously unseen page from the upcoming issue Here. |
Angel: After the Fall News
Brian Lynch is opening up the floor to questions about Angel: After the Fall over on his Myspace page Here. |
NEWS
POSTED August 26,
2007 |
 Angel: After the Fall #1 Variant Cover
Brian Lynch revealed Franco Urro's variant cover to Angel: After the Fall #1 (on left) on his MySpace blog. Click Here to view. Lynch also spoiled a line of dialogue from the first issue, "It's not work when you love what you do."
Picking up from where Season Five left off, Angel: After the Fall #1 hits stores November 28, 2007! Pre-Order at TFAW.
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Brian K. Vaughan News & More...
Brian K. Vaughan discusses Faith and his upcoming Buffy arc with Newsarama Here. The previously released 6-page preview of 'No Future For You' is also shown here in color for the first time.
Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men #22 has been reviewed by Comics Nexus. Click Here to view.
Paul Lee's Buffy 'The Chain' Issue 5 inks are on sale Here. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Vol. 3 was released in stores earlier than scheduled, this past week. |
NEWS
POSTED August 21,
2007 |
Buffy Season Eight/ Joss Whedon News
 Dark Horse have released the variant cover for Buffy #8: No Future For You Part 3. Click Here to view.
CBR has released preview pages for Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men #22, which comes out this wednesday. Click Here to view. Meanwhile, IGN has released an advanced review for the issue Here.
Diamond released their monthly Direct Market Sales Charts and Market Share report Friday, this month for titles that went on sale in July 2007, in which Buffy the Vampire Slayer #5 clocked in at the 12 spot.
Brian Lynch linked on his MySpace blog a podcast about 'After the Fall' and more. Click Here to listen. |
 Sneak Peak At Jo Chen Cover
The Buffy Zone has a Faith desktop wallpaper available for download painted by Jo Chen that will be the cover to issue #9. Click Here to view.
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Solicitation for Buffy Omnibus Vol. 3
 The third volume of our Buffy omnibus series follows the gang through harrowing trials and tribulations--slaying vampires, going to high school, and young love. Angel has lost his soul and found it again, Xander and Cordelia kiss and make up, and Willow and Oz confront his inner beast. With so much romance in the air it seems only natural that we would catch up with Spike and Dru in the short story "Who Made Who". We meet the twisted duo in Brazil following a brutal break-up involving Dru's sire and former love interest, Angelus. Jan 08, 2008. Pre-Order. |
NEWS
POSTED August 15,
2007 |
Solicitation for Buffy Season Eight #8
 Faith hits the ground running after she infiltrates the estate of a rogue Slayer, that is until Buffy pops in and is confronted by her longtime nemesis. Certainly, chaos ensues. A smash hit, Season Eight continues to enthrall readers with writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man; Pride of Baghdad; Lost), artist Georges Jeanty (The American Way) and Buffy creator and Executive Producer Joss Whedon all at the helm. 40 Pages. $2.99. Out November 07 2007. Pre-Order at TFAW. |
Buffy: The Long Way Home Reprints
Dark Horse has sent the first arc of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight back to the presses; a fourth printing for #1, a third printing for #2, and a second printing for #3 and #4. #1, 3 and 4 feature full bleed covers, while #2 encompasses a frame around the edges. Pre-Order at TFAW.
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NEWS
POSTED August 13,
2007 |
Solicitation for Angel: After the Fall #1
 The official continuation of the Angel series! When last we saw Angel and company, they were charging into battle against Wolfram and Hart's Senior Partners and facing down endless demons in a dark and rainy alleyway... Now, IDW Publishing presents the story of Angel: After the Fall, as presented by Angel co-creator Joss Whedon, with a creative team hand-picked by Whedon himself, the Spike: Shadow Puppets team of Brian Lynch and Franco Urru... Picking up where Season Five of the TV show ended, the first issue in this maxi-series looks at who lived after that climactic battle, who died, and what happened to all of Los Angeles in its wake. 32 Pages. $3.99. Out November 2007.
Angel: The Curse TPB, Angel: Old Friends TPB, Spike TPB, Spike VS. Dracula will all be receiving second printings in November. |
Whedon News
Wizard Magazine #191 ran a roster of the 'Bit Players' in the updated Buffy-verse: Amy Madison, Ethan Rayne, Andrew Wells and Warren Mears. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #1 maintains the number two spot for a third month in Wizard's "Hot 10: Comics" list, while Whedon maintains his no. 2 spot on the "Hot 10 Writers" list. Meanwhile, Whedon's free sci-fi comic, Sugarshock, hit no. 4 on EW's Must List for this week.
Whedon revealed in an interview that Buffy the Vampire Slayer #10, will mostly focus on Buffy and Willow talking. |
NEWS
POSTED August 9,
2007 |
Spike: Shadow Puppets/Buffy News
 Spike: Shadow Puppets #3 hits newstands this week. IDW Publishing currently has a temporary 5-page preview posted on their site of this book Here.
Scott Allie spoke to Slayerlit, where he commented on the “Antique” story in Tales of the Vampires (which established that Xander, post-Sunnydale, was in the thrall of Dracula for nearly a year) perhaps fitting into the new continuity, and that readers will find find out soon. There will be an upcoming Jo Chen cover that pushes the nudity barrier. |
Site News
The Buffy and Dawn Season Eight biographies in the 'Who's Who' section have been revised, while the Willow Season Eight section has been added to her biography. An Andrew Wells biography has been added in the 'Other ' biography. Other updates include: graphics change to the 21st Century banner in 'History of the Slayers' section, and a new affiliate. We also are offering a contest at our MySpace page Here. |
NEWS
POSTED August 3,
2007 |
 Buffy Omnibus Cover Revealed
Dark Horse has revealed the real cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 2, new artwork from the old Buffy cover team, Brian Horton and Paul Lee.
The second volume comes out Sept. 12. Pre-Order at TFAW. |
 "Buffy
Comic Monster Guide" website
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New biographies for Season Eight baddies General Voll and Yamanh of Hoht, plus tons more. Click Here to redirect to the site.
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Site News
We have added a Shout Box section to our site for those of you who want to chat with the webmaster or other Buffy fans out there. Click Here to redirect to the site. |
NEWS
POSTED July 29,
2007 |
Breaking News: Angel Season Six A Go
 Angel: After the Fall, the upcoming 12-part + series will pick up the Angel franchise following the cliffhanger at the end of Season 5. Angel creator Joss Whedon was named as the “Watcher” on the series, which will be written by Brian Lynch, and illustrated by Franco Urru, with covers by Tony Harris.
The series will start in November, and will tell the story that people have wanted to read since we started with the Angel and Spike comics.” Whedon was reluctant to do the series until he read Lynch’s Spike: Asylum, which got him thinking that he could do the series with Lynch, as he liked Lynch’s sensibilities on the characters. The 12 issues of the run will be broken into arcs, separated by a month, with a special filling in each month that a regular series issue isn’t being released.
The first special will be called First Night and will feature several stories looking at other characters in the mythos who will not be playing larger roles in the main story. Lynch: “The cast was about to fight a fight that they were going to lose, and this series deals with the fallout of that; Angel knew going in that he was going to lose, and this is the fallout of him taking a stand against a force that he couldn’t beat”.
To read about Brian Lynch's on Angel: After the Fall, Click Here. |
Comic-Con: Joss Whedon Panel Report
As Buffy Season Eight continues, Joss announced that he is already plotting a Season Nine. Also: Werewolf Oz is coming back! He wouldn't say how or when, but he did say bet on it. Other Joss bits: Something will happen with Fray! |
NEWS
POSTED July 27,
2007 |
"Tales of the Slayers" site revamped
 Click Here to redirect. The site has been refitted to the HMC server with an all new site design, updated and new biographies and graphics.
SlayAlive.com has obtained an exclusive six page look at Buffy Season Eight #6 Here. |
Astonishing X-Men #22 Covers Revealed
On August 22nd, the next chapter in Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's ground breaking series "Astonishing X-Men" finds its way to stands. Previously unseen, Marvel Comics has provided CBR News as Comic-Con rolls on with a first look at Cassaday's covers to "Astonishing X-Men" #22.
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New Joss Whedon Online Comic
Dark Horse announced its partnership with networking site MySpace to produce original webcomics on the first Wednesday of every month. Under the umbrella title of Dark Horse Presents, the first story is called Sugar Shock, an original story by Joss Whedon with art by Fabio Moon (DeTales) Click Here to read it now. |
NEWS
POSTED July 25,
2007 |
Buffy Season Eight #5 Out Now
 Dark Horse shipped the stand alone issue "The Chain," which focuses on one of the 'decoy Buffys,' a week earlier than originally scheduled. To read a review of this issue, Click Here.
IDW Publishing has released a five page preview of Spike: Shadow Puppets #3. Click Here to view it. IDW will be revealing the first cover image as well as the artist for Angel Season Six aka Angel: After The Fall, at their Comic Con panel this Friday at 11:30am. Stay tuned for more news on this story as it develops. |
Solicitation for Serenity: Those Left Behind Hardcover
Dark Horse's biggest hit of 2006 is now available in a special-edition hardcover! Joss Whedon, the pop-culture mastermind behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, bridged the gap between his cult-hit Firefly TV series and his Serenity motion picture with this three-issue miniseries.
Penned by Whedon and Brett Matthews, a Firefly show writer, the ragtag crew takes on a scavenger mission with the promise of a big payoff. Only too late do they realize the gig is orchestrated by an old enemy eager to remake their acquaintance. Sporting a new cover by Adam Hughes, this oversized collection shows off the work of penciller Will Conrad and colorist Laura Martin, and the array of pinups by phenomenal guest artists. In addition, over a dozen backup pages delve into the work and art behind the scenes-original material assembled especially for this hardcover edition. Avilable Nov. 14. Pre-Order at TFAW. |
NEWS
POSTED July 17,
2007 |
Spike: Shadow Puppets News & More
 Spike: Shadow Puppets #2 hits store this week.
Diamond released their monthly Direct Market Sales Charts and Market Share report, this month for titles that went on sale in June 2007, and Dark Horse and Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer continues to impress, with its fourth issue rounding out the top 10.
Georges Jeanty will be a guest of honor at Gaylaxicon, the international gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & friends Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Gaming Convention, held in Atlanta, Georgia on October 5th through the 8th. |
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NEWS
POSTED July 11,
2007 |
Solicitation for Buffy Season Eight #7
 Faith’s out to kill a Slayer. Lady Genevieve Savidge is one of the most dangerous women on the planet. If she’s left unstopped, the British heiress will usher in the apocalypse. Faith has accepted Giles’s offer of an early retirement package for this gig—but the wetworks will have to wait till she’s infiltrated Savidge’s mystically protected estate. The blockbuster Season Eight continues with multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man; LOST), the stellar art of Georges Jeanty (The American Way), and Buffy creator and Executive Producer Joss Whedon. Joss Whedon’s Season Eight Continues! View Georges' alternate cover Here. |
Joss Whedon News
ComiXtreme has reviewed Joss Whedon's Runaways #27. Click Here to read it. Issue #25 of Marvel's Runaways, entitled 'Dead-End Kids', written by Joss Whedon and pencilled by Michael Ryan is now available for your online perusal in full. You can read the issue Here.
Dark Horse will host Joss Whedon's panel at the Comic-Con 2007 Convention in San Diego on Saturday, July 28 from 4:45 - 5:45 pm.
Buffy Season Eight editor Scott Allie announced on his Dark Horse blog that Buffy Vol. 1 artist Cliff Richards is returning for at least one issue with Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #10. Joss Whedon will be writing this issue. |
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POSTED July 3,
2007 |
Serenity/Buffy the Vampire Slayer News
 Dark Horse revealed the cover for the Serenity Special Edition Hardcover: Those Left Behind. This book will be released November, 2007. Click
Here to view the cover.
Steven S. DeKnight will be writing issues #20-23 of Buffy Season Eight. Georges Jeanty revealed to Comic Book Bin's Leroy Douresseaux that he is committed to the full run of Season Eight. Click
Here to read the rest of the artist's interview.
Joss Whedon's Runaways #27 is on sale this week. Click Here to read the first six pages. |
A Dinner with Joss Whedon
Whedon has joined with Dark Horse Comics and eBay to offer fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a private dinner with him at Comic-Con International in San Diego next month. Beginning July 2nd and running through July 12th, fans will have the chance to bid on seats at his table. There will be additional offerings as well, including signed editions of Dark Horse's upcoming "Serenity" hardcover collection. Full details can found Here. |
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