Ahead of various panels at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, Dynamite Entertainment has revealed a team up with Disney's 20th Television to bring Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel back to comics in two brand new series.
Dynamite also unveiled a new look at the eponymous Slayer from a cover by artist David Nakayama, as well as revealing that Kelly Thompson (Jem and the Holograms, Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey, Captain Marvel) is handling writing duties on both the Buffy and Angel comics.
Here's what Thompson has to say about embarking on a new vampire comics adventure:
“In my early days trying to figure out how to be a writer and what stories mattered to me and why — no heroine quite broke through for me like Buffy Summers […] She was somehow everything my young geek heart had always wanted but hadn’t known to ask for. Something about that delicate alchemy of horror, fantasy, and comedy paired with a hero so pure of heart and yet flawed and relatable was… impossible to deny.
I fell deeply in love with Buffy, and following that, her whole world. Her ex-boyfriend is now a supernatural detective in Los Angeles you say? Inject it directly into my veins! But unlike a lot of other worlds I loved, the world of Buffy and Angel somehow never fell to the wayside. I could always come back to it and find something new, or something I’d missed, or something I needed. And I hope this new story we’re telling can do the same for old and new fans everywhere,”
Dynamite's Buffy comics will of course not be the first time the blonde badass has appeared in the pages – Dark Horse Comics series Buffy the Vampire Slayer served as a canonical continuation of the show, to name but a few.
Originally airing from 1997 to 2003, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer helped to launch the careers of Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, the late Michelle Trachtenberg and more. The spin-off, Angel, starring David Boreanaz as the titular vamp, aired from 1999 to 2004.
No news yet on when Dynamite's Buffy and Angel comics will release, but the news alone lines up nicely with the recent confirmation that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is in the works at Hulu, with original series star Sarah Michelle Gellar set to return – stay tuned!
