Buffy Comics Are Coming Back Again

Just the other day I was wondering if we’d finally seen the last of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the comics rack, which would be pretty significant, as she’s been a presence there since her show was actually running. We’ve had the series that followed the continuity of the current TV show while telling original stories (the first Dark Horse one), the series that was a literal canon continuation of the TV show shepherded by pre-disgraced Whedon himself (the second Dark Horse one), and the series that started it all over with a new continuity (the Boom one). What’s left?

Guess Dynamite will have to figure that out. They’ve just obtained the rights to both Buffy and Angel and will be bringing both back in separate yet connected comics. The announcement is early and they haven’t said anything about what canon they want to follow or if they’re going to make up their own. But we do know Kelly Thompson (Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey) will be the writer for both titles.

“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,” Thompson recalls. “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 is expected to announce more about the Buffy and Angel books sometime in the coming days — it is nearly SDCC time, after all. At that point we should know if we’re looking at a pair of 2025 books or 2026 ones.