NEWS POSTED July 9, 2008

Buffy Season Eight # 19 Solicitation
Buffy and Fray take on a powerful foe, who's lasted hundreds of years just so she can bring down the last two Slayers. Click Here to view Georges Jeanty's cover. Go to the 'BtVS Season Eight' section for Jo Chen's cover. Out October 1.

In other news, Wizard Magazine #202 has ranked Joss Whedon no. 3 of the "Hot 10 Writers" list, for his return to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight The 'DH 100' variant of Serenity #1 has dropped a peg to no. 5 on Wizard's "Top 5 Premiums" list.

Joss Whedon's brother has written a tie-in coomic to his online musical, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Dark Horse's MySpace Presents site. Click Here to read an interview with Zack Whedon about the tie-in comic, titled 'Captain Hammer: Be Like Me.'

Angel After the Fall: First Night Solicitation
The second hardcover collection of IDW's smash-hit Angel: After the Fall series plotted by Joss Whedon and Brian Lynch, scripted by Lynch, and this time featuring an array of talented artists. "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? John Byrne, Davud Messina, Nick Runge, and many other artists contribute the multiple tales in this hardcover volume. Out September 2008.

In site news, the "Spike: After the Fall" page has been added to the Comic Books section. You can reroute to this page by clicking on the 'Spike @ IDW' link on the lefthand toolbar.

NEWS POSTED July 5, 2008

Buffy Season Eight # 16 / Angel After the Fall #10 Available This Week
In other news, Joss Whedon's Runaways #30 came out last week. Click Here to read a review.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tarot Deck has been cancelled. Dark Horse released the following statement: "Due to circumstances beyond our control, Dark Horse will not be producing the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Tarot Deck. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, but no existing orders will be filled. We appreciate your support of this program, and again apologize to those who placed advance orders and to fans alike."

MySpace Dark Horse Presents Vol. 1 TPB, which features Joss Whedon's complete rock'n'roll saga Sugarshock!, comes out October 15. Serenity: Better Days TPB, which collects the mini-series of the same name, comes out October 29. Marvel Comics is releasing a hardcover collection of Joss Whedon's Runaways #25-30, "Dead End Kids." A release date has not been set yet. Click on the thumbnails belowfor larger views.

Angel After the Fall News
Click on the thumbnails below for full views of Stephen Mooney's variant covers for Angel After the Fall #10 through 11 in black and white, Nick Runge's cover for Angel After the Fall #12, Alex Garner'a cover fr #12, and Nick Runge's cover for #13.

IDW Publishing has released the solicitation info for Angel After the Fall #12: "LAst issue, Angel and Gunn were reunited. Unsurprisingly, it didn't go very well, and it's about to get worse. Gunn's master plan has comes to light, and it not only does it have horrifying repercussions for Angel and his friends, it could spell disaster for all of Los Angeles." Available Sept.

IDW announced that they will be releasing an Angel Omnibus volume, which will collect: a collection of Angel: The Curse, Angel: Old Friends, Angel: Spotlight, and Angel: Auld Lang Syne. To the right is the Dynamic Forces cover for Angel After the Fall #11 by John Romita Sr.

Spike After the Fall News
IDW Publishing has released the solicitation info for Spike After the Fall #3, available in September: "Defeated, tortured and beaten. The forces of evil are rising, threatening to destroy everything he holds dear. He is broken, he is alone. And he has them all exactly where he wants them."

To the right is John Romita Sr.'s Dynamic Forces cover for the issue. Spike After the Fall #1 hits stores this month, July 16.

NEWS POSTED June 16, 2008

Angel After the Fall #9 Available This Week
Below are the Dynamic Forces variant for Spike: After the Fall #1, the Sharp Brother's "Grindhouse" variant for Spike After the Fall #2, and an interior spread from issue #2, featuring Spike and a dragon. Click on the thumbnails for larger views. The 'Angel @ IDW' section has been updated with covers for Angel After the Fall #8 and 10.

Diamond Comics Distributors released their monthly sales charts and Market hare report, for comic book titles sold in May 2008: Joss Whedon's Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 came at no. 6, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #14 at no. 15, and Angel After the Fall #7 came at no. 50 ”

NEWS POSTED June 9, 2008

Angel After the Fall News / Buffy Season Eight News
Angel After the Fall #8: First Night Part 3 is on sale this week.

Below are Georges Jeanty's covers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #17, #18, and Jo Chen's covers for #18 and #20. Go to the 'Buffy Season 8' section for solicitation info.

The Buffy: Wolves at the Gate TPB has a November 5th release date. The solicitation reads as follows: Vampires that, at will, can transform into wolves, panthers, insects, or fog invade the Slayer base of operations in northern Scotland, and not only walk away unscathed, but in possession of Buffy’s scythe, the symbol of Slayer power worldwide. Buffy and the Slayer legion travel to Tokyo in order to learn more about their dangerous new foes, as Xander journeys to Transylvania to solicit the only person they’ve ever known to possess such power: Dracula. The celebrated Buffy Season Eight continues with Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, Lost) writing Wolves at the Gate, with Joss Whedon continuing his role as executive producer, and Georges Jeanty as series artist. Includes the stand-alone issue written by Buffy creator Joss Whedon, “A Beautiful Sunset.”

Joss Whedon News
The Comics Bulletin has released a preview for Whedon's Runaways #30, set to come out June 25th. Click Here for a preview.

The rare, retailer exclusive Serenity: Better Days #1 "Dark Horse 100" variant has made a splash on Wizard #201's "Top 5 Premiums" list, ranking at no. 4.

NEWS POSTED June 3, 2008

Buffy Season Eight #15 Out Tomorrow
Dark Horse has provided CBR News with an exclusive preview of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8" #15 by Drew Goddard and Georges Jeanty, on sale June 4. Click Here for a preview.

Below are Jo Chen's final cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future For You TPB, out now, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate TPB, which has a November release date, and Paul Lee's cover to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 5, available September 10. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

Volume Five of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus series begins immediately after Season Three, after Sunnydale High has gone up in flames. Buffy is plagued by dreams of fellow Slayer Faith, who now lies in a comma. Jane Espenson, the celebrated writer from the Buffy TV show, writes the powerful Faith story Haunted. And as summer comes to an end, Buffy and Willow begin their first year of college in The Blood of Carthage, in a story written by acclaimed Buffy novelist Christopher Golden. Meanwhile Buffy embarks on a new romance with Riley Finn, and Willow and Oz's relationship comes to an end in Golden's Oz: Into the Wild. This volume also features work by Buffy Season Eight contributors Cliff Richards and Paul Lee and Brian Horton.

Spike After the Fall News
Brian Lynch posted on his blog a black and white image of the "Big Bad" that Spike and Illyria will be facing.

Angel After the Fall News
Brian Lynch posted Brian Miller and Alex Garner's cover to Angel After the Fall #11 on his blog. Click on the thumbnails below to view. This month, #8 hits stores June 11th, while issue #9 is out stores June 25th.

Meanwhile, Angel: After The Fall #10 will be receiving a wraparound Comic Con variant cover with gold foil enchancements. Every copy comes signed by artist Alex Garner. Limited to 2,500 pieces."

NEWS POSTED May 30, 2008

Angel After the Fall #1 Director's Cut Available
This special edition includes writer Brian Lynch’s complete script and his writer’s annotations, as well as an all-new painted cover by Alex Garner. Click Here for a preview.

Spike After the Fall #2 Solicitation
Trapped in hell, surrounded by evil, and now, someone's taken his Primordium Demon away... Spike goes on the offensive, and faces off against the most evil creature in town. Maybe Angel's Dragon can help matters... but probably not. The next chapter of Spike and Illyria's story before Angel: After the Fall continues. Available August 08.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tarot
Dark Horse Comics has provided a look at more of the upcoming cards from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tarot Deck, written and conceived by renowned tarot writer Rachel Pollack. Pollack teamswith Buffy artist Paul Lee on the fully-painted 78 card deck, which draws upon characters, themes, and legends from all eight seasons of Joss Whedon's work.

This deck was created by Pollack not merely as a collector's item, but as an actual, working tarot deck: the cards come with a book explaining their divinatory meanings and use. The traditional symbols of the tarot are reinterpreted through the vision of Whedon's Buffy universe.

Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men Available This Week
Serenity Better Days #3 is also out in stores now. Joss Whedon's Runaways #30 has been pushed back until June 11.

Joe Quesada released several pencilled pages of Joss Whedon's Runaway's #30 on his MySpace blog.

NEWS POSTED May 7, 2008

Angel After the Fall #7 Available Today
Joss Whedon's Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men has been delayed May 28 and Runaways #30 has been pushed back until June 11.

To the right is artwork from 'First Night' by Nick Runge, the replacement artist for Angel After the Fall #9-15.

Buffy Season 8 gets spotlight in Diamond Comics' PREVIEWS
Melaka Fray's return to the pages of Buffy Season Eight gets the back cover of the publication, which is mainly used by retailers from the US and importers from all over the world. The May '08 Previews issue is currently on sale. Click Here to view the back cover.

"Joss Whedon Fray" website updated
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NEWS POSTED May 4, 2008

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #14 Out This Week
Click Here to view a seven page preview of the issue courtesy of Newsarama. Georges Jeanty talks Season Eight in an interview with Horror Yearbook Here.

Wizard's "200 Platinum" issue ranked Buffy Summers no. 136 out of the 200 Greatest Characters of All Time. Buffy Season 8 #12 was ranked no. 8 in the Wizard's "Hot 10: Comics," while Joss Whedon holds the no. 4 spot on the "Hot 10 Writers" list.

Franco Urro's Spike: After the Fall #3 Cover Revealed
IDW Editor Chris Ryall revealed a black and white image of Franco Urro's cover to Spike: After the Fall #3. Click Here to view a larger version of the cover.

'Spike' writer Brian Lynch has a new blogspot Here.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 News
Buffy #12 took sixth place for March. ICV2 estimates that the issue shipped 88,930 copies to North American comic book stores. The hype for #12 (which turned out to be the Buffy/Satsu romance) led to an increase of around 900 copies on the previous month. Also in March, Serenity: Better Days #1 came in at no. 26 with 62,300 copies shipped and Angel: After The Fall #5 took 31st place, shipping 49,558 copies.

According to the Blog@Newsarama, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #1 was named Comic Book of the Year Under $3 and Licensed Comic of the Year" at Diamond's 2007 Gem Awards.

Joss Whedon News
Wizard "200 Gold" Issue ranked Whedon's Astonishing X-Men #3 as the 14th greatest comic since 1991. Whedon's Giant Size Astonishing X-Men and Runaways #30 have been delayed until sometime this month according to the latest Diamond Distribution list.

Whedon's rock'n'roll saga Sugarshock!, a fun-filled story about a quirky girl named Dandelion and her love of music (and hatred of Vikings), is getting printed and collected in the MySpace Dark Horse Presents Vol. 1. Out Sept. 17.

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