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'''''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''''' is a [[comic book]] series published by [[Boom! Studios]].  It is a [[Reboot (fiction)|reboot]] of the television series ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' created by [[Joss Whedon]], and thus sets in a different canon from the [[Television show|television series]] and film. The series is written by [[Jordie Bellaire]] and primarily illustrated by Dan Mora.

==Plot==
High school student [[Buffy Summers]] has recently moved to the small town of [[Sunnydale]], California with her mother [[Joyce Summers|Joyce]] and Joyce's doctor boyfriend Eric.  Secretly, Buffy is in fact a [[Slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Vampire Slayer]], chosen to battle supernatural forces of evil, and undergoes training by her [[Watcher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Watcher]] and school librarian [[Rupert Giles]].  Three weeks after arriving in Sunnydale, Buffy accidentally blows her cover saving [[Willow Rosenberg]] and [[Xander Harris]] from a [[Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|vampire]] outside Tunaverse, the [[fast food restaurant]] where she works part-time.  Giles is disappointed in her lack of discretion, but Willow and Xander prove to be reliable allies when they aid Buffy in battle against the new vampires in town, [[Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Spike]] and his [[Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Mistress Drusilla]].

In their own time, Willow runs for school president with support from her girlfriend Rose and Xander blogs about his loneliness and insecurities under the pseudonym @theXeppo.  Their classmates at Sunnydale High include [[Cordelia Chase]], Willow's excessively friendly competition for school president who meets Spike when he helps recover her campaign balloons, and the athletic [[Robin Wood (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Robin Wood]], who strikes up a flirtatious relationship with Buffy. Meanwhile, the centuries-old [[Anya Jenkins|Anya]] runs a local occult shop, remaining neutral in the battle between good and evil but attracting attention from Drusilla.

==Development==
Instead of continuing the narrative from where Dark Horse left off, Boom! Studios reboots the series entirely.  Executive editor Jeanine Schaefer explained that this decision was made because the existing [[Buffyverse]] was such a "richly developed" narrative already.<ref name=CBR1>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/buffy-vampire-slayer-comic-creative-team-whedon/|title=EXCLUSIVE: Bellaire, Mora & Whedon Lead Buffy The Vampire Slayer Comic Reboot|date=October 5, 2018|website=CBR}}</ref> According to Schaefer, "Dark Horse did such a great job with the book [...] and they were really able to not only explore every corner of the Buffy universe, but also took her so far as a person and took her relationships so far. So as we were thinking about it, it feels really closed. It feels like they brought her to such a great point." Instead, Boom! Studios intended to reimagine ''Buffy'' for modern day readers, believing that the themes and character arcs of the original series were still relevant to young people in 2019.<ref name=DecidedReboot>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01/23/why-boom-studios-decided-to-reboot-buffy-the-vampire-slayer|title=Why BOOM! Studios Decided to Reboot Buffy the Vampire Slayer - IGN|via=www.ign.com}}</ref> Schaefer elaborated, "The world right now is scarier than it's ever been; placing these characters firmly in 2019, we can use the themes that were so integral to the show -- identity, agency, and empathy -- to examine our world and the heroes and monsters that lurk inside all of us...and punch those monsters right in the face."<ref name=CBR1/>

The series has drawn comparison to the [[Ultimate Marvel]] comic book imprint, which reimagined decades-old [[Marvel Comics]] [[superhero]]es for modern audiences in the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comicbook.com/comics/2018/10/05/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-boom-studios-jordie-bellaire-dan-mora-j/|title='Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Reboot Details Revealed|website=Comics}}</ref>

==Publication==
{{seealso|List of Angel comics#BOOM! Studios (2019-2020)}}
===Single issues===

{| class="wikitable" style="width:65%;"
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! Title !! Issue # !! Release date
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| colspan="6" style="background:#e32636;"| <!-- Putting in a nice space between episodes -->
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| "Welcome Back to the Hellmouth, Part One" || style="text-align:center;"| 1 || style="text-align:center;"| January 23, 2019
|-
| colspan="2"|'''Writer:''' [[Jordie Bellaire]] || '''Penciller:''' [[Dan Mora]]
|-
|colspan="6"|[[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] is a teenage [[Slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Vampire Slayer]] who has recently moved to [[Sunnydale]] with her mother [[Joyce Summers|Joyce]].  She becomes friends with [[Xander Harris|Xander]] and [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] after saving them from a [[Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|vampire]], earning disapproval from her [[Watcher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Watcher]] [[Rupert Giles|Giles]]. Meanwhile, the vampire [[Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Drusilla]] arrives at [[Anya Jenkins|Anya's]] occult shop.
|-
| colspan="6" style="background:#e32636;"| <!-- Putting in a nice space between episodes -->
|-
| "Welcome Back to the Hellmouth, Part Two" || style="text-align:center;"| 2 || style="text-align:center;"| February 27, 2019
|-
| colspan="2"|'''Writer:''' [[Jordie Bellaire]]  || '''Penciller:''' [[Dan Mora]]
|-
|colspan="6"|Buffy meets her classmates [[Cordelia Chase|Cordelia]] and [[Robin Wood (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Robin]] for the first time. Cordelia encounters [[Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Spike]] lurking outside the high school and Anya tricks Drusilla into releasing the [[bat]]-like creature [[Camazotz]].
|-
| colspan="6" style="background:#e32636;"| <!-- Putting in a nice space between episodes -->
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| "Welcome Back to the Hellmouth, Part Three" || style="text-align:center;"| 3 || style="text-align:center;"| March 13, 2019
|-
| colspan="2"|'''Writer:''' [[Jordie Bellaire]] || '''Penciller:''' [[Dan Mora]]
|-
|colspan="6"|Camazotz flies across Sunnydale causing havoc; Spike and Cordelia work together to subdue him and Buffy learns that the creature is in fact a protector of the Slayer. Spike and Drusilla attack Buffy but are repelled with help from Willow, Xander, and Giles.
|-
| colspan="6" style="background:#e32636;"| <!-- Putting in a nice space between episodes -->
|-
| "Welcome Back to the Hellmouth, Part Four"|| style="text-align:center;"| 4 || style="text-align:center;"| April 17, 2019
|-
| colspan="2"|'''Writer:''' [[Jordie Bellaire]] || '''Penciller:''' [[Dan Mora]]
|-
|colspan="6"|Buffy bonds with her mother's boyfriend Eric and Willow organizes a date between Buffy and Robin.  Having stolen Buffy's phone, Spike and Drusilla [[Catfishing|catfish]] a lonely Xander into meeting them alone.  Preying on his feelings of rejection and isolation, Drusilla bites Xander while [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Angel]] looks on.
|-
|}

==Hellmouth==
"Hellmouth" is a 2019–2020 comic book event published by Boom! Studios. The event is a crossover between ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''[[List of Angel comics#BOOM! Studios (2019-2020)|Angel]]''.<ref name="Newsarama">{{Cite web |url=https://www.newsarama.com/45657-buffy-and-angel-will-cross-over-in-hellmouth.html |title=BUFFY Meets ANGEL in BOOM!'s First Event Crossover |first=George |last=Marston |website=[[Newsarama]] |date=7 June 2023 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830044802/https://www.newsarama.com/45657-buffy-and-angel-will-cross-over-in-hellmouth.html |archivedate=30 August 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

As the Hellmouth threatens [[Sunnydale]] to the brink of extinction, Buffy Summers must join forces with the vampire [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Angel]] to save the city, as long as they do not kill each other.<ref name="io9">{{Cite web |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/buffy-and-angel-will-fight-over-who-gets-to-save-the-wo-1835953046 |title=Buffy and Angel Will Fight Over Who Gets to Save the World in Boom Studios' First Buffy Comic Crossover |first=James |last=Whitbrook |website=[[io9]] |date=July 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701213407/https://io9.gizmodo.com/buffy-and-angel-will-fight-over-who-gets-to-save-the-wo-1835953046 |archivedate=1 July 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Checklist===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" width=100%
|-
! Title / Issue(s)
! Writer(s)
! Artist(s)
! Colorist(s)
|-
! ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hellmouth'' #1–5<ref name="Newsarama" />
| Jordie Bellaire, Jeremy Lambert
| Eleonora Carlini
| Chris Peter
|-
! ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' #8–12<ref name="The Beat">{{Cite web|url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/preview-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-8-the-hellmouth/|title=PREVIEW: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #8 reveals the origins of the Hellmouth Event|first=Deanna|last=Destito|website=The Beat|date=29 August 2019 }}</ref>
| Jordie Bellaire
| David López
| Raúl Angulo
|-
! ''Angel'' #5–8
| Bryan Edward Hill
| Gleb Melnikov
| Roman Titov
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.boom-studios.com/category/series/buffy/ Buffy – Boom! Studios]

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