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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 also appeared 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 antagonist in the Child's Play horror film series, 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 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. |
Joss Whedon cameos continued when his likeness was used for a super powered villain in Brian Michael Bendis' Powers Vol. 3 #1 (2009) and as one of the people fleeing the scene in the Action Comics #1 homage cover for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #32 (2010). Artwork by Michael Avon Oeming and Georges Jeanty. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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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Buffy's wardrobe from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #32: Twilight (2010) is based on the character Jenny wears in "The Doctor's Daughter" Doctor Who episode. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #33: Twilight (2010) contains an assortment of easter eggs, including the machine from the classic "Teen Titans/X-Men" 1982 crossover, and Andrew's "Clobberin Time" weaponized outfit, which contains elements from Star Wars, The Punisher, Captain America, and Batgirl. (2009). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Sweeney Todd, the demon barbar of Fleet Street cameos as a vampire that kills a Slayer in a flashback in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #34: Twilight (2010). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
The plane that Angel saves in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #36: Last Gleaming (2010) belongs to Oceanic Airlines, which is the same airline that crashed onto an island on the television show Lost. Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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Dark Horse characters, Concrete, about a normal man whose brain was transplanted into a large, stone body by aliens, and Godzilla, the Japanese movie monster both appear in the background on the cover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #38: Last Gleaming (2010). Artwork by Georges Jeanty. |
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