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CAMEOS
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What do Buffy and Hellboy have in common? Dark Horse’s Hellboy can often be spotted in the backgrounds of Buffy panels drawn by Cliff Richards. Instances include Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel #1/2: City of Despair, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #23: Blood of Carthage, and #29: Past Lives. Buffy made her comics debut in Dark Horse Presents 1998 Annual, which featured Hellboy on the cover. A Hellboy look alike appears in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike & Dru: Queen of Hearts one-shot. |
In addition to doing 29 covers for the original Buffy and Angel comic book series, Japanese-American comic artist Jeff Matsuda drew the short story “Angels We Have Seen on High,” in Reveal! #1 TPB (2002), which featured Uncle and Jade, characters he designed for the cartoon show Jackie Chan Adventures. He often included cameos of himself as well, such as in this story and on the cover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #40: Ugly Little Monsters (the man with the bandage on his nose). |
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Chucky, the main villain in Child's Play media, made a cameo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #22: Blood of Carthage (2000) at the UC Sunnydale Annual Charity Fair. Artwork by Cliff Richards. |
The Fray comic book has made a couple of appearances, first in one panel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #40: Ugly Little Monsters (2001), and then again in another panel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #3: The Long Way Home (2007). |
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Tom Fassbender and Jim Pascoe, who wrote the monthly Buffy comic from #31-46, made an appearance in their own book as shoppers at the Magic Box in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #46: Withdrawal (2002). Artwork by Paul Lee. |
The demon Ipda from Buffy editor Scott Allie’s The Devil’s Footprint made an appearance in a demonology book being researched by Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in Buffy the Vampire Slayer #52: Viva Las Buffy (2002). For more information on The Devil’s Footprint, go here: http://scottallie.com/content/devils_footprints.htm. |
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Brian Lynch wrote himself into the Spike Asylum mini-series as one of the doctors at the Mosaic Rehab facility, Dr. Ray (2006). Lynch also appeared on the Angel: After the Fall #1 Wedding variant cover (2007). Artwork by Franco Urru. |
Buffy wore a shirt that featured the Serenity logo from Joss Whedon’s cancelled television series Firefly throughout Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #1: The Long Way Home (2007). Art by Georges Jeanty. |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #6: No Future For You (2007), a brief one-panel cameo depicts inverted versions of the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler from the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, standing in front of a red telephone box instead of a blue police box, outside of Giles’ London Flat. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #6: No Future For You (2007), The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) logo appears in the background in the scene where Xander is training and speaking with Buffy. The B.P.R.D. is a fictional organization in the comic book work of Mike Mignola. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Spike: Shadow Puppets #4 (2007) featured creator Joss Whedon in a single page cameo as a lonely adult male who falls victim to the demonic Smile Time gang. Artwork by Franco Urru. Joss also made a cameo appearance in Buffy's dreamscape in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #3 (2007). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
Buffy and Willow play a fantasy game of "Anywhere But Here," in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #10 (2008): Buffy reveals actor Daniel Craig approaching her at the beach, whilst Willow sets herself in a cabin with Tina Fey during a snowstorm. Buffy later imagines being surrounded by Pretty Women Christian Bale and Reign of Fire Christian Bale. |
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Jay and Silent Bob, fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, made a cameo appearance in Angel After the Fall #5 as demons residing in Silver Lake (2008). Artwork by Franco Urru. |
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #16: "Time of Your Life" (2008), Slayer Kennedy wears a t-shirt featuring Homestar Runner's Marzipan. Buffy creator Joss Whedon is an admitted fan of the animated Flash cartoon series. Artwork by Karl Moline. |
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Spike took on a vampire Hugh Hefner, Editor-in-chief of Playboy, in Spike: After the Fall #4 (2008). After killing Hefner, Spike took over the Playboy Mansion and wore his silk pajamas. Artwork by Franco Urru.
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Comedian Andy Dick made a brief but memorable appearance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #21: Harmonic Divergence (2009), where he is bitten by Harmony, the bubblegum cheerleader vampire, who gets caught in the act by paparazzi cameras. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Anderson Cooper, American journalist and primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360° appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #21: Harmonic Divergence (2009), leading the questioning charge against the Slayers. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
Westerberg from Brian Lynch's "Everybody's Dead," made an appearance in the conclusion of Angel After the Fall #16 where he revealed to Angel that was now a celbrity. IDW editor Chris Ryall made a wordless cameo on the same page as a spectator. Artwork by Franco Urru. |
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Slayer Kennedy wears a Watchmen t-shirt in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #22: Swell (2009), when she gets sucker punched by a possessed Satsu. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, who used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties and to critique the superhero concept. |
Larry King, an American television and radio host appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #22: Swell (2009), interviewing Harmony about how persecuted vampires are. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. This scene was recreated in the trade paperback collection for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: Predators & Prey TPB. Artwork by Jo Chen. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #22: Swell (2009) also featured Kennedy wearing a shirt with Animal from The Muppet Show. Iyari Limon, who played Kennedy on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has been photographed at fan conventions wearing an Oscar the Grouch t-shirt (another Muppet character). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
The cover art to David Bowie's "Aladdin Sane" (1973) is featured on the t-shirt of a Slayer Buffy and Andrew rescue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #23: Predators and Prey (2009). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Pink Floyd's music album "Dark Side of the Rainbow" (1973) appeared as poster in Dawn's ex-boyfriend Kenny's room in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #25: Living Doll (2009). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #25: Living Doll (2009) also saw the Star Wars character Yoda cameo as a magical totem statuette. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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A character from Yellow Submarine, a 1968 animated feature film based on the music of the Beatles, Jeremy Hilary Boob Ph.D (The "Nowhere Man"), appears as a gremlin in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #25: Living Doll (2009). Giles sports a jumper with a Yellow Submarine design in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #6: No Future For You (2006). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
Andrew Wells showed off his Star Wars cred in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #26: Retreat (2009) by wearing a Boba Fett sweatshirt designed by Marc Ecko. The hoodie was also sported by the in-house lab tech character Topher in Whedon’s latest show Dollhouse in the episode “Haunted." Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz appears on Willow's nightstand in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #26: Retreat (2009). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
MySpace Dark Horse Presents #26's "Harmony Comes to the Nation" (2009) featured a fictional interview for The Colbert Report where Harmony lays out her ambitions with Stephen Colbert. Artwork by Karl Moline. |
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When Andrew wakes up Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #27: Retreat (2009), he finds the Watcher sleeping in t-shirt sporting the "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" album cover. The Sex Pistols were a highly influential and controversial English punk band. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
Andrew continues to show off off his Star Wars cred wearing a Storm Trooper hoodie from Marc Ecko in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #27: Retreat (2009). The panel also features head busts of the Xenomorph, the primary antagonist of the Alien film series as well as Hellboy. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Continuing a trend of Sesame Street character cameos throughout Season Eight, Buffy was drawn in a purple version of an existing "The Count" t-shirt in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #27: Retreat (2009). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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TRIVIA
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #8: The Final Cut (1999) was expanded in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Supernatural Defense Kit with new pages by the original creative team including: Buffy fighting more vampires, dining with Angel in a graveyard where he gives her a vial of holy water, discussing said date with Willow, and an expanded fight with Fair Quinn where she uses the holy water Angel gave her. Actual elements from the story were visible through die-cut windows of the custom-crafted photo cover slipcase: Buffy's trademark gold-colored cross, the "Claddagh" ring, and a glass vial of "holy" water with flakes of silver suspended in the fluid. Cover artwork by Randy Green. |
”Superstar,” was the 17th episode of season four of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where the nerdy Jonathan casts a spell to cause all of Sunnydale to believe that he is the titular "Superstar." A plethora of Jonathan related merchandise appeared in the episode including three comic books published by Dark Horse Comics starring Jonathan. Jeff Matsuda cranked out these drawings with Jon Sibal inking two of them and Matsuda inking the third. Dan Jackson colored all three, and Keith Wood created the logo.
Jane Espenson, who wrote the "Superstar" episode later wrote a special Jonathan one-shot for Dark Horse which featured the same logo (2001). |
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Dark Horse ran an exclusive three page Angel comic, "Point of Order" in TV Guide magazine, by David Fury and Ryan Sook (1999). The comic was reprinted in Angel: Strange Bedfellows and Other Stories TPB. |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Rogues Gallery, a story by Andi Watson and Hector Gomez, was broken down into two page installments in the pages of Diamond Previews from 1999-2000. According to Buffy editor Scott Allie, the story was not archived and therefore could not be collected in the Buffy Omnibuses making it the only Buffy story not to be reprinted. |
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Dark Horse Extra #25-28 (2000) ran a strip called “The Napalese Switcheroo” by Scott Alliie and Eric Powell where Angel’s sidekick Doyle had his essence switched into a metal skull. Powell’s design of the skull came from an actual antique that sits in Buffy editor Scott Allie’s home office. |
Buffy was spoofed in the DC Universe title Young Justice #33-35 (2001) with “Wendy the Werewolf Stalker,” Superboy's favorite television show. Artwork by Todd Nauk and Lary Stucker. |
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Popular comic book artist Adam Hughes did the artwork for the 2001 musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, with Feeling," of cast members Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Emma Caulfield, Anthony Stewart Head, James Marsters, Amber Benson, Michelle Trachtenberg and Hinton Battle as their Buffy counterparts. |
Dark Horse released a promotional piece by Cliff Richards in Diamond Previews magazine of Buffy and Pike battling the undead in Vegas. The artwork, which promoted the “Year One” story in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #51-54: Viva Las Buffy! (2002) has not been reprinted in any subsequent Buffy collection since. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds, the fourth video game based on the Buffy franchise in 2003, yielded a comic book prequel published by Dark Horse. The comic was also available in the game itself as an unlockable special feature. Additionally, the comic was reprinted as part of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2005 Annual in Britain. Cover artwork by J. Scott Campbell. |
The Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #13 (The Simpsons 150th issue) has Lisa Simpson arriving in Sunnydale and mixing it up as a vampire slayer. Artwork by Ian Boothby. |
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Dark Horse Comics held a contest for one reader to be given a cameo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #10: Anywhere But Here (2008). The winner was Jerrod Balzer, an author who wrote an entry on behalf of his wife, Robin who is a schizophrenic. Upon reading the winner's entry, Whedon decided to expand that character's role and feature her as a critical part of the story, as opposed to a simple cameo. Robin Balzer appeared in the story as well as on the variant cover with Buffy and Willow. Cover artwork by Georges Jeanty.
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Angel: After the Fall #9 (2008) featured a gag panel of a demon modeled after Nigel 7 (from Brian Lynch's mini-series Monkey Man Unleashed) wearing a silkscreened shirt that read “Burge Is My Master Now,” a pun on the PvP “Joss Whedon Is My Master Now” t-shirts, a reference to Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Dollhouse creator Joss Whedon replacing Star Wars creator George Lucas as the new lord of geek fandom.
To order the shirt go to: http://www.pvpstuff.com/jowhismymano.htm
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Dark Horse was set to produce a Buffy themed Tarot Card deck with painted art by Paul Lee, but it was cancelled before it was released. Cards previewed online revealed Buffy as "The Magician," "Death" featured the Grim Reapear presiding over a fallen Slayer, Angelus as "Temperance," a nude Buffy and Spike cavorting with "The Devil," Willow as "The High Priestess," a vampire being killed by "The Sun," The First Slayer as "The Fool," The Master presiding over "The Wheel of Fortune," and Buffy leaping from "The Tower."
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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Animated Series was an undeveloped animated TV show based that was initially greenlit by 20th Century Fox in 2002, but ultimately went unproduced and unaired when no network was willing to buy the series. The series would have taken place in the middle of Buffy Season One.
Joss Whedon and Loeb later revisited the style of the series in Season Eight story "After These Messages... We'll Be Right Back!" (2008) The issue’s plot is similar to one partially seen during a promo for the animated series. You can watch the four minute pilot here: http://buffyanimated.homestead.com/pilot.html.
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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Conversations with Dead People” Board, named for an award-winning episode from Season Seven of the television series was accompanied by an exclusive, comic-style instruction book featuring sequential art by Buffy Season Eight guest illustrator Paul Lee. |
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The trade paperback covers for “Viva Las Buffy!” and “Slayer, Interrupted” (2003) reused Brian Horton and Paul Lee’s cover artwork for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #52 and #59 respectively, but the artists reworked the faces in both pictures to better capture Sarah Michelle Gellar’s likeness. |
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COVER HOMAGES
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Hector Gomez’s cover for the Buffy Wizard Magazine #1/2 issue (1999) contains astounding similarities to Chynna Clugston-Major's promotional postcard for Blue Monday. The Comics Journal's Swipe File accused Gomez of ripping off Chynna’s work, but Buffy editor Scott Allie defended the artist, saying that because Gomez lived in South America, it was extremely unlikely he had ever seen or heard of Blue Monday. The similarities were chalked up to coincidence, but the incident was made even weirder by the fact that Chynna's husband, Guy Major, had colored the Buffy cover. |
Georges Jeanty’s cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #9: No Future For You (2008) spoofs the poses of Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes in the 1998 remake of The Avengers, originally a television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain.
The story behind the cover choice lies inside the issue, where in discussing their partnership, Giles asks Faith if she would like to be the Peel to his Steed, referencing the popular British show. |
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Franco Urru's cover for Spike: Asylum #2 (2006) references promotional material for The Usual Suspects, a 1995 film written by Christopher McQuarrie, directed by Bryan Singer, and starred Kevin Spacey. |
Georges Jeanty based his cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #15: Wolves at the Gate (2008) on the poster for Akira Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai (1954). The choice of this particular film reference is echoed in the comic’s story where one of the supporting characters is killed brutally just as in the film many characters are killed. |
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David Messina’s Time & Space Toys variant cover for Angel: After the Fall #1 (2007) captured the pose and likenesses of Spike, Gunn, Angel and Illyrias from their final appearance in “Not Fade Away,” the series finale of Angel. |
The poses of Buffy and the Scooby Gang from Brian Horton and Paul Lee's cover to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 3 (2008) mimics a well-known scene from "What a Night for a Knight", the first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Clockwise from top: Shaggy, Fred, Scooby-Doo, Velma, and Daphne. |
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Alex Garner's cover for Angel: After the Fall #9 (2008) paid subtle homage to Jack Kirby's cover for The Incredible Hulk #1 (1962). |
Georges Jeanty's cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #17: Time fo Your Life (2008) gives a nod to nod to Akira (1982) with Harth's concrete throne.
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David Messina’s cover for Angel: Smile Time #1 (2008) paid tribute to Bob Larkin’s painting for The Hulk Collection, released sometime in either the 1970s or 80s.
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Georges Jeanty's cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #21: Harmonic Divergence (2009) mimics Chris Bachalo's 1999 cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #10.
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David Messina’s Angel: Smile Time #2 (2009) cover was inspired by the poster for Fight Club (1999), which starred Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
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Georges Jeanty’s cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #25: Living Doll (2009) depicting a smirking Buffy holding a doll-sized Dawn in the palm of her hand is an homage to Jo Chen cover for #4: The Long Way Home (2007), where a giant size Dawn held Buffy in the palm of her hand.
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Darick Robertson's cover to WildStorm's Prototype #1 (2009), based on the multiplatform Activision video game, pays homage to Franco Urru's cover for Spike: Asylum #4 (2006).
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David Messina’s Angel: Smile Time #3 (2009) cover presents a "Smile Time" puppet take on the The WB network's promotional campaign for the fifth season of Angel, which featured David Boreanaz and James Marsters.
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Sam Shearon’s retailer incentive cover for Angel #25 (2009) was inspired by A Clockwork Orange, a 1971 satirical futuristic film adaptation.
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The photo retailer incentive cover for Angel #25 (2009) uses the same stock photo as Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike and Dru TPB (2001).
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #29: Retreat (2009) pays homage to Marvel Comic's Sgt. Rock and the Howling Commandos #12 (1963) by Dick Ayers. |
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FLASHBACKS
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In Angel vol. 1 (1999), Doyle recounts Angel's origin from Buffy episode 2.21 "Becoming Part 1", where he met his sire Darla in an alley. Artwork by Christian Zanier. |
In Angel #25 (2009), Drusilla remembers herself as a frightened human watching as Angelus and Darla fooling around from the Angel 2.05 episode "Dear Boy". Artwork by Franco Urru. |
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In Angel: The Curse (2005), Angel remembers Romanians cursing him with a human conscience for for killing a Gypsy girl, from Buffy episode 2.21 "Becoming Part 1". Artwork by David Messina. |
Spike Vs. Dracula #4 (2006) expands the brief scene in black-and-white of Spike and Drusilla in an Italian jazz club from Angel episode 5.20 "The Girl in Question". Artwork by Joe Corroney. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Origin #1-3 (1999) adapted Joss Whedon's original screenplay from the feature film, updating the material to match the tone and characters of the television series, including a scene from Buffy's time at Hemery High in Buffy episode 2.21 "Becoming Part 1". Artwork by Joe Bennett. |
In Angel: The Curse #3 (2005), Angel reminisces about losing Cordelia, with a flashback scene of Cordelia as a high school student attending Sunnydale High from the Buffy episode 1.01 "Welcome to the Hellmouth." Artwork by David Messina. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #35 (2001) featured the events of Buffy's confrontation with the Master from the Buffy episode 1.13 "Prophecy Girl" from Dawn's perspective. Artwork by Cliff Richards. |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #36 (2001) features a modified flashback of Xander and Cordelia's secret romance being discovered by Dawn rather than Willow from the Buffy episode 2.14 "Innocence". Artwork by Cliff Richards. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #37 (2001) features a modified flashback of Angel almost killing Dawn, when no one knew that he had turned evil again from the Buffy episode 2.14 "Innocence". Artwork by Cliff Richards when |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz #3 (2002) features a flashback to Oz and Willow sharing their first kiss, leaving Oz a "werewolf in love," from the Buffy episode 2.15 "Phases". Artwork by Logan Lubera and Valentien De Landro. |
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Angel: The Curse #2 (2005) sees Angel reminisce on killing Jenny Calandar from Buffy episode 2.17 "Passion", after he meets a tribe of gypsies in Romania. Artwork by David Messina. |
In Angel vol. 1 (1999), Doyle recounts Buffy being forced to kill Angel to save the world from being swallowed into hell from Buffy episode 2.22 "Becoming Part 2". Artwork by Christian Zanier. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Lover's Walk (2001) features Spike reminiscing on his visit to Sunnydale in Buffy episode 3.08 "Lovers Walk" when he forced Buffy and Angel to help him gather ingredients for a love spell after he kidnapped Willow. Artwork by Eric Powell. |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #9 (2007) features a flashback to a scene in Buffy episode 3.21 "Graduation Day Part 1" between the Mayor and Faith, showing how Faith currently views the Mayor - she knows he was wrong and evil, yet how she can't help but feel loved when she thinks of him. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #7 (2007) features a flashback to the battle between Buffy and Faith to save Angel's life in Buffy episode 3.21 "Graduation Day Part 1". Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20 (2000) is set directly after Buffy episode 3.22 "Graduation Day Part 2" when Angel leaves Buffy and Sunnydale for L.A.. Artwork by Jason Minor. |
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Angel Spotlight: Doyle (2006) focuses on Doyle as he tracks someone that the Powers That Be have pointed him towards: Angel, which leads into their first interaction from the Angel episode 1.01 "City Of". Artwork by David Messina. |
In Angel: The Curse #3 (2005), Angel reminisces about running into Cordelia Chase, whom he last saw at her graduation ceremony at Sunnydale High some months earlier from the Angel episode 1.01 "City Of". Artwork by David Messina.
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In Spike: Lost and Found, Spike tells Harmony of his trip to Los Angeles when he had tried and failed to obtain the mystical Gem of Amarra by torturing Angel for information in the Angel episode 1.03 "In the Dark". Artwork by Fernando Goni.
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In Angel: The Curse #3 (2005), Angel reminisces about losing Doyle after he sacrificed himself to deactivate a bomb-like device in the Angel episode 1.09 "Hero". Artwork by David Messina.
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #27 (2009), Oz informs Buffy and co. how he dealt with his werewolf problem after he had lost control and attacked Tara in Buffy episode 4.19 "New Moon Rising". Artwork by Georges Jeanty.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #39 (2001) flashes back to Buffy discovering her mother's lifeless body on the couch in the Buffy episode 5.16 "The Body". Artwork by Cliff Richards.
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Angel: The Curse #2 (2005) showed Angel discovering a poster advertisement featuring Cordelia in swimwear in Romania that she had shot in Angel episode 2.19 "Belonging". Artwork by David Messina.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #43 follows the events of Buffy episode 5.22 "The Gift", where Buffy's friends are trying to live on without the slayer after she sacrificed her life to save the world. Artwork by Cliff Richards.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season #45 (2002) featured the resurrection of Buffy from the Buffy episode 6.01 "Bargaining Part 1". Artwork by Cliff Richards.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #4 (2007) features a flashback to when Dark Willow flayed Warren Mears in the Buffy episode 2.20 "Villains". Artwork by Georges Jeanty.
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In Angel: The Curse #3 (2005), Angel reminisces about losing Cordelia and his feelings for her, with a flashback to her ascension into a higher being from the Angel episode 3.22 "Tomorrow". Artwork by David Messina.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #26 (2009) has skinless Warren distracting Andrew by having him remember his dream where they and Jonathon are frolicking gods from the Buffy episode 7.16 "Storyteller". Artwork by Georges Jeanty.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #28 (2009) has Andrew use his camcorder to secretly interview the Slayer organization in a callback to the Buffy episode 7.16 "Storyteller". Artwork by Georges Jeanty.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #11 (2008) has Buffy reflecting on her long history of being a Slayer and awakening the thousands of other girls around the world from the Buffy episode 7.22 "Chosen". Artwork by Georges Jeanty.
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Angel: Smile Time #1-3 (2008) is a comic book adaptation of the Angel episode 5.14 "Smile Time", where Angel goes to the studio of a popular show after learning they are stealing the life forces of children, and accidentally triggers a spell that transforms him into a puppet. Artwork by David Messina.
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Angel: Not Fade Away #1-3 is a comic book adaptation of the Angel episode 5.22 "Not Fade Away", where Angel convinces his team that they must take out every member of the Circle of the Black Thorn in a defiant and probably futile stand against the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart. Artwork by Stephen Mooney. |
COVER VARIANTS
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The relaunch of Buffy Season Eight and IDW’s various Angel mini-series have seen multiple variant covers for each issue, but Dark Horse’s original Buffy and Angel comic series only had a handful of variant covers that featured new original art.
Jeff Matsuda did a “Tower Exclusive Edition Silver Logo Variant Cover” for Angel Vol. 1 #1 (1999).
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #17 featured a Purple Foil Logo Valentine's Day edition that connected with the Angel #3 Valentines Day editions (Purple Foil Logo and Red Foil Logo) both drawn by Jeff Matsuda (2000).
Christian Zanier drew variant covers for Angel #7 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #21, which both featured Gold and Red Logo variants (2000). |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #25 (2000) by Jeff Matsuda, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1 #50 (2002) by Brian Horton and Paul Lee, Tales of the Vampires #5 (2004) by Brian Horton and Paul Lee, Angel After the Fall #7 (2008) by Rebecca Wrigley, and Angel After the Fall #10-11 (2008) by Alex Garner are the only Buffy/Angel related media to feature wrap around covers. |
BY THE NUMBERS (Click on the # for Artwork)
34 Covers by Brian Horton and/or Paul Lee
31 Covers by Jo Chen
30 Covers by Georges Jeanty
29 Covers Jeff Matsuda
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29 Issues by Joss Whedon
20 Issues by Tom Fassbender & Jim Pascoe
17 Issues by Fabian Nicieza
64 Interiors by Cliff Richards
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