Buffy the Vampire Slayer Returns: Dynamite Entertainment to Publish New Buffy and Angel Comics | SDCC 2025

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise has a affluent past successful the comic publication realm, with aggregate publishers adding to the mythology of the classical TV series. Now Dynamite Entertainment has go the newest location for Buffy comics, with the steadfast announcing a brace of interconnected titles - Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Both books volition beryllium written by Absolute Wonder Woman and Birds of Prey writer Kelly Thompson and diagnostic screen creation by David Nakayama. No interior artists person been revealed yet.

Art by David Nakayama. (Image Credit:

Little other is known astir the caller Buffy and Angel comics astatine this stage, different than that they'll travel the illustration of the archetypal shows and diagnostic a tightly intertwined continuity. Judging from Nakayama's creation above, it would look the books are acceptable successful the classical Buffy epoch alternatively than the clip play of the upcoming Hulu revival series.

"In my aboriginal days trying to fig retired however to beryllium a writer and what stories mattered to maine and wherefore — nary heroine rather broke done for maine similar Buffy Summers," said Thompson successful a statement. "She was someway everything my young geek bosom had ever wanted but hadn’t known to inquire for. Something astir that delicate alchemy of horror, fantasy, and drama paired with a leader truthful axenic of bosom and yet flawed and relatable was… intolerable to deny. I fell profoundly successful emotion with Buffy, and pursuing that, her full world. Her ex-boyfriend is present a supernatural detective successful Los Angeles you say? Inject it straight into my veins! But dissimilar a batch of different worlds I loved, the satellite of Buffy and Angel someway ne'er fell to the wayside. I could ever travel backmost to it and find thing new, oregon thing I’d missed, oregon thing I needed. And I anticipation this caller communicative we’re telling tin bash the aforesaid for aged and caller fans everywhere.”

Editor Nate Cosby said, “There was 1 sanction connected my privation database of writers for Buffy: Kelly Thompson. There was 1 sanction connected my privation database of writers for Angel: Kelly Thompson. Her passionateness for these characters is second-to-none. The interweaving communicative she’s crafted for some books is going to sound everyone's socks off.”

Previously, some Dark Horse and BOOM! Studios held the rights to the Buffy franchise astatine antithetic points. Dark Horse published Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 and its sequels, continuing the continuity of the TV bid with the engagement of creator Joss Whedon. BOOM!, meanwhile, published a 2019 reboot that acted arsenic a benignant of Ultimate Universe-inspired instrumentality connected Buffy. It remains to beryllium seen if Dynamite's Buffy comics volition bespeak the events of the Dark Horse books oregon enactment arsenic an alternate sequel to the TV series.

Dynamite is teasing much quality astir the Buffy originative teams and merchandise dates soon.

For much connected Buffy the Vampire Slayer, cheque retired the apical 15 episodes of the classical bid and larn wherefore possibly it's not a bully happening that Buffy is getting a revival.

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