This is a List of ''Buffyverse'' comics including different categories of different types of publications.
Categories
''Buffy'' comics
These were published by
Dark Horse
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, originally in comic format but then gathered into volumes of
trade paperbacks. They were published from 1998 until 2004. A small number of ''Buffy''
comic
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s have not been included in trade paperbacks. These include the comics: ''
Giles'', ''
Jonathan'', and ''
Reunion''. The cover art of the individual comic covers can be found
here
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. Dark Horse, under the guidance of Joss Whedon, reinstated the series in 2007 as a canonical continuation of the series.
''Angel'' comics
Dark Horse
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Origin
Th ...
published two ''Angel'' comic series, the first of which was halted after 17 issues while the second lasted only four issues. Since June 2005,
IDW have published a 17-issue
limited series Limited series may refer to:
*Limited series, individual storylines within an anthology series
*Limited series, a particular run of collectables, usually individually numbered
* Limited series (comics), a comics series with a predetermined number ...
, a
spin-off
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ongoing series as well as several
miniseries
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and
one shots with ''Angel'' characters.
''Tales of the Vampires''
This comprises an anthology of short stories written by
Joss Whedon,
Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson (born July 14, 1964) is an American television writer and producer.
Espenson has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and shared ...
, and other writers of the ''Buffy'' TV shows. Each story tells the tale of one or more ''Buffyverse'' vampires.
''Tales of the Slayers''
This is an anthology of short stories written by Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, and others. Like the prose short stories, each of these surrounds a different slayer from the past.
Unofficial parody
There has been a sexually explicit satirical graphic novel,
Boffy the Vampire Layer
The fictional universe established by television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and '' Angel'' and the film ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' has been parodied or paid tribute to by a number of unofficial productions, most notably fan films and ...
, which is not officially licensed as ''Buffy'' merchandise by ''20th Century Fox''. It was published by ''Eros Graphic Albums'' in 2002.
Canonical issues
''Buffy'' comics are not usually considered by fans as
canonical
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. However, unlike
fanfiction
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, overviews summarizing their story, written early in the writing process, were "approved" by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as official ''Buffy'' merchandise.
Chronology
Ancient
These tales take place from ancient times up until 1900.
Modern
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place from 1900 to 1995.
''Buffy'' season 1
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place around
''Buffy'' Season 1 (from spring 1996 up until spring 1997).
''Buffy'' season 2
These tales take place during
''Buffy'' Season 2 (from autumn 1997 up until spring 1998).
''Buffy'' season 3
These tales take place during
''Buffy'' Season 3 (from autumn 1998 up until spring 1999).
''Buffy'' season 4 / ''Angel'' season 1
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place during
''Buffy'' Season 4, and
''Angel'' Season 1 (from autumn 1999 up until spring 2000).
''Buffy'' season 5 / ''Angel'' season 2
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place during
''Buffy'' Season 5, and
''Angel'' Season 2 (from autumn 2000 up until spring 2001).
''Buffy'' season 6 / ''Angel'' season 3
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place around
''Buffy'' Season 6, and
''Angel'' Season 3 (from autumn 2001 up until spring 2002).
''Buffy'' season 7 / ''Angel'' season 4
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place around
''Buffy'' Season 7, and
''Angel'' Season 4 (from autumn 2002 up until spring 2003).
''Angel'' Season 5
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place around
''Angel'' Season 5 (from spring 2003 up until spring 2004).
''Buffy Season Eight'' / ''Angel: After the Fall''
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place after
''Angel'' Season 5.
Note: canon = bold, non-canon = ''italic''
''Buffy Season Nine'' / ''Angel & Faith''
After season 8.
Comics by writer
(w/) = Collaboration with another writer (or other writers).
*
Amber Benson
Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, singer, writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1999–2002), and has also directed, produced ...
– ''
The Innocent'', ''
Willow & Tara'' (w/)
*
Chris Boal
Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian (given name), Christian, Christina (given name), Christina, Christine (name), Christine, and Christos (given name), Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, ...
– ''
Autumnal
''Autumnal'' is the seventh full-length album by the Spanish power metal band Dark Moor. The recording of this album was announced in early 2008, with constant updates posted on their website since then.
The title of the album was revealed on N ...
(w/)''
*
Dan Brereton Daniel Alan Brereton (born November 22 San Francisco Bay Area) is an American writer and illustrator who has produced notable work in the comic book field.
Biography Early life
Dan Brereton attended the California College of the Arts and the Acad ...
– ''
Dust Waltz
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,
Uninvited Guests
"Uninvited Guests" is the twelfth episode of the fourth series of the British comedy TV series '' Dad's Army''. It was originally transmitted on Friday, 11 December 1970.
Synopsis
Following the bombing of ARP HQ, Hodges moves his wardens into ...
(w/)''
*
Chynna Clugston-Major – ''
Food Chain
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(w/)''
*
Peter David
Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games.Buxton, Marc (March 29, 2014)"From 'Future Imperfect' to '2099': Peter David's Greatest Hits" Co ...
– ''
Spike: Old Times,
Illyria: Spotlight,
Spike vs Dracula''
*
Ben Edlund
Ben Edlund (born September 20, 1968) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, television producer, and television director. He is best known as the creator of the satirical superhero character The Tick.
Background
Edlund was born and raised in ...
– ''
Taking Care of Business''
*
Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson (born July 14, 1964) is an American television writer and producer.
Espenson has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and shared ...
– ''
Presumption
In the law of evidence, a presumption of a particular fact can be made without the aid of proof in some situations. The invocation of a presumption shifts the burden of proof from one party to the opposing party in a court trial.
There are two ...
,
Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1997,
Father
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,
Dust Bowl
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,
Spot the Vampire,
Jonathan,
Haunted,
Reunion''
*
Jay Faerber
Jay Faerber (born 1972) is an American comic book and television writer. Faerber is known for his work on ''Generation X'' and ''New Warriors'' for Marvel Comics, and '' The Titans'' and '' Connor: Spotlight'' for DC Comics. He later wrote his ow ...
– ''
Connor: Spotlight''
*
Tom Fassbender
Tom or TOM may refer to:
* Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name)
Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in ''List of Beavis and Butt-Head characters#Local r ...
– ''
Out of the Woodwork (w/),
Food Chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or algae which produce their own food via photosynthesis) and ending at an apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), d ...
(w/),
Ugly Little Monsters (w/),
Autumnal
''Autumnal'' is the seventh full-length album by the Spanish power metal band Dark Moor. The recording of this album was announced in early 2008, with constant updates posted on their website since then.
The title of the album was revealed on N ...
(w/),
False Memories
In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinforma ...
(w/),
Death of Buffy
"The Death of Buffy" is a story arc that ran through ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' #43–45 based on the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series. The arc was later collected in a trade paperback edition.
Lost & Found
Story description
Fol ...
(w/),
Creatures of Habit (w/)''
*
David Fury
David Fury is an American television writer, producer, actor and director.
Career
He is well known for his work on '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'', '' Lost'', '' 24'', '' Fringe,'' ''Tyrant'' and '' The Tick''.
Fury was a co-execut ...
– ''
The Glittering World''
*
Drew Goddard
Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American filmmaker. He began his career writing episodes for the television shows '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'', '' Alias'', and '' Lost''. After moving into screenwriting in ...
– ''
The Problem with Vampires,
Antique
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*
Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults and teens.
Early life
Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts ...
– ''
Earthly Possessions'' (w/), ''
Strange Bedfellows'', ''
Hunting Ground'' (w/), ''
Strange Bedfellows'' (w/), ''
Past Lives
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'' (w/), ''
Willow & Tara'' (w/),
Oz, ''
Giles'' (w/), ''
Spike & Dru'' (w/), ''
The Origin'', ''
Blood of Carthage'', ''
Food Chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or algae which produce their own food via photosynthesis) and ending at an apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), d ...
(w/), '', ''
Play With Fire
Play with Fire may refer to:
* ''Play with Fire'' (comics), a ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' comics collection
* "Play with Fire" (''CSI''), an episode of ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
Music
* ''Play with Fire'' (album), by The Reign of Kin ...
'', ''
Angel: The Hollower'',
''Chaos Bleeds'' comic prequel (w/)
*
Dan Jolley
Dan Jolley is an American novelist and comic book writer. His comics work includes DC Comics' ''Firestorm'' and Graphic Universe's ''Twisted Journeys,'' a series of interactive fiction or gamebooks in graphic novel form, and his novel work include ...
– ''
Gunn: Spotlight''
*
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Rebecca Kirshner is a writer and producer for American television. Her writing credits include ''Freaks and Geeks'', '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', and ''Gilmore Girls''. She was the executive producer and showrunner of '' 90210'' for the second ...
– ''
Sonnenblume''
*
Paul Lee – ''
Hoopy the Bear''
*
Scott Lobdell
Scott Lobdell (; born 1960) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter known for his work on numerous ''X-Men'' series for Marvel Comics in the 1990s, various work for DC Comics in the 2010s, namely '' Red Hood and the Outlaws, Teen Tit ...
– ''
Note from the Underground,
Viva Las Buffy (w/),
Slayer Interrupted (w/)''
*
Sam Loeb
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III () is an American film and television writer, producer and comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series ''Smallville'' and ''Lost'', writer for the films ''Commando'' and ''Teen Wolf'', and a writer and c ...
– ''
Some Like it Hot
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''
*
Brian Lynch – ''
Spike: Asylum''
*
Jeff Mariotte
Jeff Mariotte (born 1955) is an author who lives in Arizona. As well as his own original work, he is best known for writing novels and comic books based on licensed properties.
Biography
Mariotte was born in Park Forest, Illinois, but he moved ...
– ''
The Curse The Curse may refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Curse'' (1924 film), a 1924 Austrian silent film directed by Robert Land
* ''The Curse'' (1987 film), a 1987 horror film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's ''The Colour Out of Space'' directed by ...
'', ''
Old Friends'', ''
Doyle: Spotlight''
*
James Marsters
James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor, musician, singer, comic book writer, and audiobook narrator.
He is sometimes credited in various anime series and video games as David Gray and Sam Majesters in the series ''Dr ...
– ''
Spike & Dru'' (w/)
*
Brett Matthews – ''
Jack
Jack may refer to:
Places
* Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community
* Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community
* Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA
People and fictional characters
* Jack (given name), a male given name, ...
,
Dames
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,
Numb''
*
Fabian Nicieza
Fabian Nicieza (born December 31, 1961) is an Argentine-American comic book writer and editor who is best known for his work on Marvel titles such as ''X-Men'', '' X-Force'', ''New Warriors'', ''Nomad'', '' Cable'', ''Deadpool'' and ''Thunderbol ...
– ''
Death of Buffy
"The Death of Buffy" is a story arc that ran through ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' #43–45 based on the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series. The arc was later collected in a trade paperback edition.
Lost & Found
Story description
Fol ...
(w/),
Viva Las Buffy (w/),
Slayer Interrupted (w/),
A Stake to the Heart
''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' comics refer to comic books based on the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. While many of these comics were published when the television show was on air they are not all considered canonical and of ...
''
*
Jim Pascoe
Jim or JIM may refer to:
* Jim (given name), a given name
* Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James
* Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy
* OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism
* ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring
* ''Jim'' ...
– ''
Out of the Woodwork (w/),
Food Chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or algae which produce their own food via photosynthesis) and ending at an apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), d ...
(w/),
Ugly Little Monsters (w/),
Autumnal
''Autumnal'' is the seventh full-length album by the Spanish power metal band Dark Moor. The recording of this album was announced in early 2008, with constant updates posted on their website since then.
The title of the album was revealed on N ...
(w/),
False Memories
In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinforma ...
(w/),
Death of Buffy
"The Death of Buffy" is a story arc that ran through ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' #43–45 based on the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series. The arc was later collected in a trade paperback edition.
Lost & Found
Story description
Fol ...
(w/),
Creatures of Habit (w/)''
*
Doug Petrie
Douglas Petrie is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. He co-wrote the screenplays for the ''Fantastic Four'' film and '' Harriet the Spy ...
– ''
Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1937,
Ring of Fire
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,
Double Cross,
Bad Dog''
*
Jamie S. Rich
Jamie S. Rich is an author of both prose and graphic novel fiction, a web series host, and editor of American comic books. He is currently Executive Editorial Director at IDW Publishing.
Career
As writer
His first published work was the novel ...
– ''
Food Chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or algae which produce their own food via photosynthesis) and ending at an apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), d ...
(w/)''
*
Thomas E. Sniegoski
Thomas E. Sniegoski is an American novelist, comic book writer and pop culture journalist.
Career
A number of Sniegoski's works have been related to the Buffyverse, the fictional universe established by TV series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ...
– ''
Earthly Possessions'' (w/), ''
Strange Bedfellows'' (w/), ''
Hunting Ground'' (w/), ''
Past Lives
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrection is a ...
'' (w/), ''
Giles'' (w/),
''Chaos Bleeds'' comic prequel (w/)
*
Scott Tipton
Scott Randall Tipton (born November 9, 1956) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2011 to 2021. A Republican, he was previously a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. Tipton was ...
– ''
Spike: Old Wounds,
Spike: Lost and Found,
Wesley: Spotlight''
*
Andi Watson
Andrew Watson (born 1969) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels ''Breakfast After Noon'', ''Slow News Day'' and his series ''Skeleton Key'' and ''Love Fights'', published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics. ...
– ''
Remaining Sunlight
''Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Remaining Sunlight'' is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series.
Story description
''Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1''
:Comic title: ''Wu-tang Fang ''
Buf ...
,
Uninvited Guests
"Uninvited Guests" is the twelfth episode of the fourth series of the British comedy TV series '' Dad's Army''. It was originally transmitted on Friday, 11 December 1970.
Synopsis
Following the bombing of ARP HQ, Hodges moves his wardens into ...
(w/),
The Final Cut,
Bad Blood,
Crash Test Demons
Crash or CRASH may refer to:
Common meanings
* Collision, an impact between two or more objects
* Crash (computing), a condition where a program ceases to respond
* Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating
* Couch s ...
,
Pale Reflections''
*
Joss Whedon – ''
Prologue
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ...
,
Righteous,
Tales
Tales may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Tales'' (album), a 1995 album by Marcus Miller
* ''Tales'' (film), a 2014 Iranian film
* ''Tales'' (TV series), an American television series
* ''Tales'' (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure ...
,
Tales of the Vampires
''Tales of the Vampires'' is a five issue American comic book limited series (later collected in a single trade paperback), published by Dark Horse Comics and set in the Buffyverse. It comprises an anthology of short stories written by Joss Wh ...
,
Stacey,
Long Night's Journey,
Fray''
Footnotes
External links
''BBC Cult Television - Buffy ecomics''A number of Buffy comics are available free online from the BBC.
The Unofficial Comic Book Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
''Buffy Season 8'' comics
''Whedonesque.com'' - Whedon announces he will be writing Buffy comics in December 2005
* ttp://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/07/the_new_buffy_c.html ''Popwatch.ew.com'' - First Look: The new 'Buffy' comicbr>Panels from Buffy Season 8 at ''DreadCentral.com''
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