News
NEWS POSTED August 30, 2007
Buffy Season 8 News*
*TV Guide released a mini interview with Brian K. Vaughan, where he talks about his next-week debut on Buffy Season Eight and also reveals one page from the upcoming issue.
Scott Allie speaks to Slayerlit about working on Buffy Season Eight Here.
Angel: After the Fall #1 Variant Cover *
Brian Lynch is opening up the floor to questions about his upcoming gig on Angel: After the Fall at his Myspace page, which can be found Here.
NEWS POSTED August 26, 2007
Angel: After the Fall #1 Franco Urru Variant Cover *
It’s been announced that Angel: After the Fall #1 will be available November 28 2007.
Brian Lynch has posted on his blog a podcast podcast about ‘After the Fall’ and more.
Brian K. Vaughan/Buffy Season Eight News *
*Brian K. Vaughan discusses Faith and his upcoming Buffy arc with Newsarama. Dark Horse has a 6-page preview of the first part of ‘No Future For You’ Here available September 5th.
Paul Lee’s Buffy ‘The Chain’ Issue 5 inks are on sale Here. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Vol. 3 was released last week, a week earlier than the announced in-store date.
Astonishing X-Men #22 Available Now *
*Comic Book Resources has a 6-page preview for the issue. The issue came out August 22nd.
The issue by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday has been reviewed by Comics Nexus. IGN.com has also released a review for the issue.
NEWS POSTED August 21, 2007
Buffy Season Eight #8 Georges Jeanty Alternate Cover Revealed *
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.
Sneak Peak: Jo Chen’s Buffy Cover *
Solicitation for Buffy Omnibus Volume 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. Available January 08 2008. Click Here to view Brian Horton’s cover.
NEWS POSTED August 15, 2007
Spike: Shadow Puppets #3 Available Now*
*To the left is the Retailer Incentive Franco Urru cover for Spike: Shadow Puppets #3.
IDW Publishing announced that Angel: The Curse TPB, Angel: Old Friends TPB, Spike TPB, Spike Vs. Dracula TPB will all be receiving second printings in November 2007.
Buffy Season Eight #8 Solicitation *
*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. Available November 07 2007. Click Here for Jo Chen’s cover.
Buffy: The Long Way Home Reprints *
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. Available November 2007. Click Here to view Tony Harris’ cover.
Buffy Season Eight 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 Season Eight #10 will mostly focus on Buffy and Willow talking.
NEWS POSTED August 09, 2007
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 03, 2007
Buffy Omnibus Vol 2 Cover Revealed *
Angel The Premiere Edition Available *
*By Scott Tipton, Jeff Mariotte and David Messina. This oversized hardcover collection includes each and every issue from The Curse, Old Friends and the latest Angel adventure, Auld Lang Syne. Weighing in at over 350 pages of Angel-awesomeness, this is the must-have collectible Angel fans have been waiting for. Click
Here to view Jeremy Geddes’ cover full size.
“Buffy
Comic Monster Guide” website
update *
Site News *
NEWS POSTED July 29, 2007
Breaking News: Angel Season Six A Go *
*Angel: After the Fall, the upcoming 12-part + series in November 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. . 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.
Newsarama has full coverage of the news.
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 *
SlayAlive.com has obtained an exclusive six page look at Buffy Season Eight #6 Here.
Astonishing X-Men #22 Covers Revealed *
New Joss Whedon Online Comic *
*Dark Horse announced its partnership with networking site MySpace ****to produce original webcomics on the firstWednesday of every month. Under the umbrella title of Dark Horse Presents, the first story is called Sugarshock, an original story by Joss Whedon with art by Fabio Moon.
NEWS POSTED July 26, 2007
Buffy Season Eight #5 “The Chain” Available Now *
*Dark Horse shipped “The Chain,” which focuses on one of the ‘decoy Buffys,’ a week earlier than originally scheduled. Buffyverse Comics has a review of the issue. For a six page preview, go to Pop Culture Shock.
In other news, 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.
Solicitation for Serenity: Those Left Behind HC *
*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. Click
Here to view the cover by Adam Hughes.
NEWS POSTED July 18, 2007
Spike: Shadow Puppets #2 Available *
*In other news, 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 Friday July 27 at 11:30am. Stay tuned for more news on this story as it develops.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 1 Available Today *
*The definitive comics collection of all things Buffy starts here. Dark Horse has put up a 26 page preview for the Omnibus. Click
Here to view it.
For more information Click Here.
Art of Angel: The Premiere Collection Available *
*IDW brings all the covers, variant art and photo incentives together and presents them in this handsome, oversize hardcover edition. Includes all the art from The Curse, Old Friends, the five Angel Spotlights, Masks, Auld Lang Syne and Spike stories like Spike vs. Dracula, Asylum, Old Wounds, Old Times and Lost & Found. Artists include comics luminaries like John Byrne, Igor Kordey, Sean Phillips, longtime Angel artist David Messina, Franco Urru and many more! Click
Here to view the cover full size.
Buffy Season Eight News *
*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.
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 , the stellar art of Georges Jeanty, and Buffy creator and Executive Producer Joss Whedon.
Dark Horse Buffyverse News *
- 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.
NEWS POSTED July 03, 2007
Whedon’s Runaways #27 Available This Week *
*****Comic Book
Resources released a dialogue
Runaways #25 “Dead-End Kids,” by Joss Whedon and Michael Ryan is now available for your online perusal in full. You can read the issue at Whedonesque.
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.
Site News *
*If you’re a DC Comics fan or like femme fatales, this site’s for you. Collecting Harley Quinn.
NEWS POSTED June 26, 2007
Buffy Volume One Artist Paul Lee Returns to Season Eight *
*Paul
Lee of “Dawn and Hoopy the Bear”
fame returns to Buffy with the
Season Eight tale “The Chain.”
Paul Lee frequently collaborated
with Brian Horton over art and
cover chores for many Buffy
comics, and even went solo for
#46’s “Withdrawal” and #51’s
aforementioned ’Dawn and Hoopy
the Bear.
Buffy
the Vampire Slayer Season Eight News *
*Buffy
the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
#1 maintains the number two spot
for a second month in a row in
Wizard’s “Hot 10: Comics” list,
bringing in more non-comic
readers and driving demand for
the sold-out first
print.
In other news, IF Magazine gives Season Eight Buffy comic #4 an A-.
Steven S. DeKnight will be writing issues #20-23 of Buffy Season Eight.
Georges Jeanty revealed to Comic Book Bin among other things that he is committed to the full run of Season Eight.
NEWS POSTED June 18, 2007
Buffy
the Vampire Slayer Season Eight News *
*To
the left is Georges Jeanty’s
cover for Buffy the Vampire
According to ICv2.com, Buffy #3 shipped an estimated 106,634 copies to North American comic book shops (10,000 more than Buffy #2 did the some very healthy re-orders for the first two issues.
Spike Shadow Puppets #1 Available This Week *
*Writer Brian Lynch and artist Franco Urru (Spike: Asylum) reunite for a miniseries that sees Spike and Lorne heading off to Japan to stop the latest Japanese kids’ show - Smile Time! Click Here to view the retailer incentive Franco Urru cover.
Brian Lynch discusses his work on Angel Season Six and Spike: Shadow Puppets with Fractal Matters.
Fractal Matters has also posted an advanced review of Spike: Shadow Puppets #1 Here.
Solicitation
for Spike: Shadow Puppets #4 *
*He’s
been kicked, beaten, stabbed,
blown up, and worst of all,
turned into a puppet. Now Spike
has to battle Smile Time for the
fate of every child in Japan! But
Smile Time has one more trick up
their adorable, murderous
felt-covered sleeves–puppet
versions of ALL of Spike’s
friends and foes! It’s a battle
royale, puppet-style, courtesy of of Brian
Astonishing X-Men #23 Delayed *
*Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men #23 has been rescheduled for September 26 2007 .
NEWS POSTED June 13, 2007
Angel: Auld Lang Syne TPB Available Today *
*While tracking a mysterious cult in Los Angeles in hopes of solving a kidnapping, Angel finds himself face to face with some familiar visages—faces he shouldn’t be seeing! As if that isn’t confusing enough to our embattled vampire with a soul, what is Spike doing lurking around in the shadows? Find out for yourself in this collection featuring the greatest head-to-head Angel/Spike battle ever, courtesy of Scott Tipton and David Messina.
****Buffy Season 8: The
Long Way Home TPB Solicitation *
*Since
the destruction of the Hellmouth,
the Slayers – newly legion –
have gotten organized and are
kicking some serious undead butt.
But not everything’s fun and
firearms, as an old enemy
reappears and Dawn experiences
some serious growing pains.
Meanwhile, one of the “Buffy”
decoy slayers is going through
major pain of her own. Buffy
creator Joss Whedon brings Buffy
follow-up to season seven of the
smash-hit TV series. The
bestselling and critically
acclaimed issues 1-5 are
collected here for the first
time. Available Nov.
Solicitation
for Buffy Season Eight #6 *
*The
second arc of Season Eight starts
here. Brian K. Vaughan takes over
writing duties and dives headlong
into what Faith is up to –
infiltration, assassination, and
nonstop Cleveland. The fugitive
Slayer is given the assignment
that could change her life . . .
if Giles’s specialized training
doesn’t make her want to end it
first. Joss Whedon stays on as
Executive Producer in this first
part of “No Future for You.” In stores on Sept.
Buffy:
Panel to Panel Solicitation*****
*Buffy
the Vampire Slayer, captivating
cult phenomenon and one of the
most critically acclaimed TV
series of the last decade, burst
into the comics realm in August
of 1998. Nearly every year since,
the rich thematic material of
good vs. evil, Slayer vs.
vampire, friendship vs.
isolation, and black vs. the new
black has been explored at Dark
Horse in over a hundred different
issues – and by the biggest
luminaries in the business. The
stunning visuals unachievable on
a small-screen budget have come
to life, realized by Chris
Bachalo, J. Scott Campbell, Jeff
Matsuda, Mike Mignola, Terry
Moore, Eric Powell, Cliff
Richards, Tim Sale, and Ryan
Sook, among others. Take a look
back at the most dynamic and
memorable line art and paintings
from the first ten years of the
Slayer in comics. Available November 14.
NEWS POSTED June 06, 2007
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #4: The Long Way Home Pt. 4 Available Today *
*Buffy #4 is reviewed on A Comicbook Orange on , as well as by Herc at Ain’t It Cool News.
In other news, Brett Matthews, upcoming co-writer of Joss Whedon’s Serentity: Better Days mini-series, commented to Wizard Magazine #189 that the series is set to come out in the later half of this year, around September.
NEWS POSTED May 23, 2007
Newsflash:
Buffy’s Still Hot *
*Georges
Jeanty’s hyper-rare retailer
sketch variant cover of Buffy #1
landed at no. 4 on Wizard
Magazine #188’s “Top 5 Premium
Comics” list with an est. value
of $45, while Buffy #1 itself has
landed at no. 2 on the “Hot 10
Comics” list. The buzz
surrounding Whedon over Buffy
Season Eight and Runaways has
kicked him up a notch to no. 2 on
the “Hot 10 Writers” List. In other news,
Serenity:
Better Days News *
*More
details have surfaced about the
upcoming Serenity mini-series: It
will take place prior to the
movie, but after the show Firefly, and will be
reunite Joss Whedon with
“Serenity: Those Left Behind”
artist Will
Conrad.
The premise will focus on the Serenity crew aquiring a job so lucrative that it will let the entire crew retire. The pressure of pulling of a job with such high stakes begns to wear away the team, and they slowly begin to break apart as the storyline progresses.
Brian
K. Vaughan’s Season Eight “Faith” Arc *
*Brian K. Vaughan
(Runaways) will be taking over from Joss
Whedon on Buffy Season Eight with issue 6,
with an arc that will focus on
bad girl slayer Faith. A recent
interview with Buffy cover artist
Jo Chen in the offical BtVs/Angel
Magazine
revealed that the arc will
feature Faith taking her own
father to the ‘Enchantment Under
the Sea’ dance during a trip to
1955, which promises to elate
readers.
NEWS POSTED May 22, 2007
Astonishing X-Men #23/ Runaways #28 Solicitations *
*RUNAWAYS
#28: “Dead End Kids”
continues, as super-star Joss
Whedon and rising star Michael
Ryan
continue their landmark run. Pun
intended. Love is in the air as
the Runaways try and run back
from 1907. Part 4 (of
6). Available August 2007.
Astonishing
X-MEN #23: Pencils and Covers by John Cassaday, “Unstoppable” reaches its penultimate chapter! The end is near. The situation is dire. The outlook is bleak. But Cyclops has a plan. Part 5 (of 6). Available August 2007.
April
2007 Sales Charts Reports *
*Diamond
released their monthly Direct
Market Sales Charts and Market
Share report, for titles that
went on sale in April 2007. Dark
Horse’s Buffy #2 came in at
number 12 for the month, while
Joss Whedon’s Runaways #25 also
managed to finish in the top
fifty, reaching to number
42.
NEWS POSTED May 19, 2007
Buffy
the Vampire Slayer Season Eight News *
*In
Wizard Magazine #188, an article
called “BUST A GUT” features
what’s left of Sunnydale (see
picture below) as one of comics’
worst real estate
markets.
Spike: Shadow Puppets
#3 Solicitation & Updated David Messina Cover *
*IDW released an updated
GWell, now they did it. Smile Time has turned Spike into a puppet. But if they think that’s gonna stop him, they don’t know Spike. Half as tall. Twice as mad. Five times as adorable. It’s wall-to-wall, puppet vs. puppet, hard-hitting action courtesy of the Spike: Asylum team of Brian Lynch and Franco Urru! Available August.
NEWS POSTED May 16, 2007
Buffy
Season Eight #4 Preview *
*Dark
Horse has released a four page
Spike:
Asylum TPB Available Now *
*The
5 issue mini-series from IDW
Publishing is available now,
complete with cover gallery and
page commentary. By Angel Season
Six co-writer Brian Lynch and
Franco Urro.
Buffy
the Vampire Slayer Season Eight News *
*IGN
proclaimed Buffy Season
Eight as one of the summer’s
hottest comic books. Wizard
Entertainment also chimes in with
the love for the series on their
Heat Index, “action-packed and
overflowing with Whedon’s
patented snappy
patter.”
In other news, Mania.com proclaimed Xander’s Head Popping off as April 2007’s “Great Comic Moment.”
NEWS POSTED May 08, 2007
Solicitation
for Buffy Season Eight #5 *
*Buffy’s
new position as leader and
figurehead of the world’s five
hundred most powerful women has
made her a bigger target than
ever before. “The Chain” tells
the story of one of the decoy
“Buffy” Slayers, a tale
personally important to series
creator Joss Whedon. Guest artist
Paul Lee (Conan, Tales of the
Vampires) pencils the first
standalone issue of Season Eight.
Available August 01 2007.
From left to right: Jo Chen’s cover, variant covers by Georges Jeanty and Paul Lee. Click the thumbnails below to view the images full size.
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“Buffy
Comic Monster Guide” website
revamped *
refitted to the HMC server with
an all new site design, updated
biographies and graphics, plus
bios for Season 8 baddies!
NEWS POSTED May 06, 2007
Buffy Season Eight #1 Goes to Third Printing, Buffy #2 Goes to Second *
**Joss
Whedon’s Fray News *
*The
Fray miniseries is once again in
for more information.
NEWS POSTED May 04, 2007
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #3 Available Now *
*Dark Horse has posted a preview for Buffy #3 Here.
Herc at Aint’ it Cool News posted a page-by-page review of the issue.
TVSquad gave a score of 6 out of 7 in their review.
Astonishing X-Men #21 / Runaways #26 Available *
Newsarama posted an advanced review of Runaways #26.
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