News
NEWS POSTED December 28, 2006
Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men #19 Available
Today
Whedon
and Cassaday’s final story arc of
Astonishing X-Men begins with
issue #19, part one of
“Unstoppable.” After dealing with
Cassandra Nova and the Hellfire
Club, the X-Men are off to
protect the Earth from certain
destruction by Breakworld.
Pop Culture Shock has a four page preview of the issue. Click Here to redirect to view.
Angel: Spotlight TPB Out
Today
This special collection compiles five one-shots focusing on different members of Angel’s supporting cast, each from a different creative team – Peter David and Nicoloa Scott focus on Illyria; Dan Jolly and Mark Pennington handle Gunn; Scott Tipton and Mike Norton feature Wesley; Jeff Mariotte and David Messina present Doyle; And Jay Faerber and Bob Gill offer up a tale of Conner. Click
Here to view the cover.
NEWS POSTED December 24, 2006
** Jeanty’s Variant Issue #1 Cover**
Scott
Allie revealed more details about
Buffy Season 8 to
Newsarama.
*Joss
Whedon will be writing the first,
middle, and last
arc.
*The
second arc will feature Faith,
and it’ll be written by Brian K.
Vaughan.
*Jeph
Loeb will be writing the third
arc
Click Here to view a larger version of Georges Jeanty’s alternate cover to issue #1.
*“Buffy
Comic Monster Guide” website
updated
*Click
Here
to redirect. All the old
biographies have been revised,
along with new artwork and two
new bios.
NEWS POSTED December 21, 2006
Dark
Horse 100
Cover
This
spring, Dark Horse will be
sending 100 winning retailers 10
free alternate cover versions of
the season’s most anticipated new
series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The copies have a cover
reproduced from the original
pencil art of the variant cover
from artist Georges Jeanty.
Simply register to win on the Dark Horse Retailer registration site and 100 lucky winners will be drawn at random. Click Here to view a larger version of the cover.
Buffy
Season Eight Comic Book
Writers
Announced
In
an interview with Wizard
Magazine, Joss Whedon announced
Brian K. Vaughan is on board to write an arc. Doug Petrie, who
wrote Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Ring of Fire GN, was announced on Whedonesque that he will
join the writing
staff.
NEWS POSTED December 17, 2006
Buffy
Season Eight gets spotlight in
Diamond Comics’
PREVIEWS
The
new season gets the front cover
spot of the publication, which is
mainly used by retailers from the
US and importers from all over
the world. January ’07 PREVIEWS
will be on sale December 22.
Click
Here
to view the cover full size.
Spike:
Asylum #4 Out This
Week*
- Spike: Asylum #4 scheduled to come out December 20. This issue features a guest appearance by Lorne, everyone’s favorite musical empath demon. Click Here to view Franco’s cover. Matt Bush’s is in Spike@IDW.
Spike: Asylum writer Brian Lynch announced on his MySpace profile that he has another book with Asylum artist Franco Urro coming out from IDW in May 2007.
*Site
News
- To the right this sketch of Buffy, Faith and Kendra by Bruce Timm, a writer and artist working in comics, most well known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise. Click Here to view the image full size.
In other news, We’ve Moved! We are now officially a member of the Hellmouth Central family. Check out the Introduction section for information on our move.
NEWS POSTED December 12, 2006
Angel:
Old Friends Cover Gallery Available This Week
When
Joss Whedon’s Angel’s adventures
continued within the comics
scene, he didn’t come alone.
Carrying on his continuing new
adventures were some of the best
artists in comics, including
Dustin Evans, Zach Howard, Lee
Kohse, series artist David
Messina, and many more. This
special collection offers up all
the cover art, including
hard-to-find variants and photo
covers, from all five issues of
Angel: Old Friends in one
beautiful volume.
Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men
#21 Solicitation
Written by Joss Whedon, Pencils & cover by John Cassaday. “Unstoppable,”
part 3 of 6. Ord and his people
of Breakworld lead the charge to
take down the X-Men and
S.W.O.R.D. And when this fight’s
over… Not everyone is coming
back! Available March 14
2007.
NEWS POSTED December 11, 2006
Joss
Whedon reveals more details @
Fanboy
Radio
Fanboy
Radio host, Scott Hinze, managed
to get Joss Whedon to spill some
more beans about the upcoming
comic:
*Xander
has been confirmed as the third
Scooby to appear in the initial
arc.
*Riley
and his wife may show up but
nothing is set right now as the
writers of the comic are going to
start with the core
characters.
*The
Immortal will also be showing up.
(Previews from the comic revealed
that it was not Buffy who was
dating the Immortal as revealed
in Angel TV episode “The Girl in
Question,” but rather another
Slayer posing as
Buffy.)
Click Hereto listen to the full interview with Joss.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
The Eighth
Wonder
In
an exclusive interview with the
official Buffy & Angel
magazine, Senior Managing Editor
for Dark Horse Comics Scott Allie
revealed more information about
the upcoming Buffy
comic:
*The
initial storyarc will be four
issues.****
*This
first arc will only feature
Buffy, Dawn and one other Scooby
member. Willow and Giles won’t be
appearing until
later.
*Though
IDW holds the rights to Angel and
Spike, Joss will still be able to
use the characters at some point
in his
run.
*Despite
fan demand, Allie decided not to
bring back über-Buffy artist
Cliff Richards, realizing that
the relaunch needed a fresh
look.
*Allie
hinted that Georges Jeanty will
not be the only artist pencilling
the series.
NEWS POSTED December 09, 2006
Site
Updates
The
Xander biography in the ‘BtVS:
Who’s Who?’ section has been
updated with a new Season Seven -
Eight section that highlights
Xander’s recent history under the
thrall of Dracula. Look for tons
of updates to the biographies
once the new Buffy comic comes
out. The ‘Slayers Through The
Ages’ section has been also been
somewhat revised. In other news,
We’re moving! By the new year, we
will have left Geocities and
moved to the HMC
family, who have been so kind as
to offer a place to hang our hat
- this move will allow for more webspace, as well as bringing in more viewers. Keep watching this space for more information about our move.
‘Unstoppable’
Astonising X-Men
Variants
****Marvel
Comics has given a first look at
John Cassday’s variant cover for
this month’s Astonishing X-Men
#19, beginning the “Unstoppable”
arc. The variant covers will ship
in a 50/50 ratio with the regular
covers of the series, and each
variant issue, up to #24, will
feature a different member of the
“Astonishing” team. Each of the
six issues will fit together to
make one large image. Astonishing
X-Men #19 in stores December 27. Click
Here to view John Cassaday’s #19 cover.
Angel
& Spike: The Premiere
Editions
These
oversized hardcover collections
collecting all of IDW’s Angel and
Spike related series (sans Angel:
Spotlight). Weighing in at over
350 pages of Angel-awesomeness,
this is the must-have collectible
Angel fans have been waiting for.
The Angel collection is available
August 25 2007, while the Spike collection will be
available June 25 2007.
sNEWS POSTED December 08, 2006
The
Complete Joss Whedon
Q&A
Joss
Whedon was recently interviewed
by TVGuide.com about the upcoming
Buffy Season 8 comic.
Click
Here
to read the interview, along with
a five page preview of the first
issue.
Serenity
Returns To Dark
Horse
As
previously reported, Joss Whedon
will be resurrecting his
‘Firefly’ franchise with a new
mini-series, Serenity: Better
Days. Comics Continuum reported
that Adam Hughes will be
providing at least one
cover.
NEWS POSTED December 07, 2006
Georges
Jeanty Interview @
HMC
The Upcoming
Buffy artist sat down with Buffy
fan-site HMC www.HellmouthCentral.com for
an exclusive interview, answering
Buffy fan questions.
“When I found out that Joss was writing the first arc, my excitement rose even more. That Georges Jeanty was going to be doing the art on it, well, that just put the icing on the cake…” Hooked? Click Here to read it.
Speculation: A
Glorious
Return(?)
****Back
in November, Georges Jeanty
informed HMC that he had to watch
Season Five of Buffy to reference
a specific scene in the upcoming
comic, which is set in Season
Eight. Now Dark Horse has
revealed through their
solicitation for the first issue
that an old enemy is returning to
bring misery to the
Scoobies.
Could hell-god Glory be the mystery villain? Portrayed throughout Season Five and an episode of Season Seven by actress Clare Kramer, Glory was killed off in the Season Five season finale, and made her comic-debut in a brief cameo in the Buffy comic, “Chaos Bleeds” which served as a prequel for the video game of the same name.
Angel:
Auld Lang Syne #2 Available This Week
By Scott Tipton & David Messina. Click
Here to view David Messina’s cover. Click
Here to view the retailer incentive cover. Stephen Mooney’s cover is located in the Angel@IDW section.
Idw
Publishing’s Spike
Wallpaper**
****IDW has released in
their wallpaper gallery, a scene
from Angel: Auld lang Syne #2, where Spike
struggles with his “demons.”
The wallpaper comes in
three sizes: 1600x1200,
1280x1024, 1024x786.
2009 UPDATE: The wallpapers have been removed from IDW’s site.
Buffy
Wizard
News
Buffy
Season Eight will be a highlight
in the upcoming Wizard #184 2007
Preview Issue, hitting comic
stores December 20 and on
newsstands January 2, 2007.
NEWS POSTED December 05, 2006
Solicitation
for Buffy the Vampire Slayer
#1
****Fans
got a preview of what life was
like for Buffy after Season Seven
in the short story “Antique”
published back in 2004’s Tales of
the Vampires mini-series. Now
Joss gives fans what they’ve been
asking for - Buffy Season
Eight!
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… Available March 07, 2007. Click Here to view Jo Chen’s cover art for the issue. Check out the ‘BtVs Season Eight’ section for more information.
Solicitation
for Angel: Auld Lang Syne #5
****Angel
and Spike put their heads
together to discover who’s been
manipulating them from afar! And
what better way to get to the
bottom of things than some good
old-fashioned breaking and
entering! It’s an all-vampire
museum heist! Written by Scott
Tipton (Spike: Lost and Found)
with full art and colors provided
by David Messina (Angel: Old
Friends). Stephen Mooney (CSI:
Dying in the Gutters) provides a
variant cover, too.” Available March 2007. Click
Here
to view David Messina’s cover.
Solicitation
for Angel Scriptbook Vol. 2 TPB
****This
collection offers five scripts of
some of the very best Angel
episodes pulled from its
five-season run, including the
fan-favorite “Smile Time” and the
series finale “Not Fade Away,”
scripted by Jeffrey Bell and
series creator Joss Whedon. Also
included are “I Will Remember
you,” “You’re Welcome,”
“Conviction” and “In The Dark,”
which were never published as
comic book scriptbooks. Each
complete shooting script includes
original illustrations inspired
by the episodes by artist Jeff
Johnson.” Available March 2007.
NEWS POSTED December 03, 2006
Preview
for Angel Auld Lang Syne
#2
Idw
Publishing released a color page from Angel: Auld Lang Syne #2 by series artist David Messina. Click Here to preview. IDW Publishing has delayed the release date of the book to sometime in December.
Fractal Matters interviewed IDW editor Chris Ryall about Spike: Asylum among other topics.
Interview
with Angel Writer
Scott
Tipton
“At
the vanguard of the massive
resurgence in Angel’s popularity
as a comic series, Scott Tipton
is one of the new breed of
writers coming up at IDW. His
combination of cerebral plotting,
a keen ear for dialogue and a
deep, abiding love for all things
Angel means he’s become the go to
guy for fans of the world’s most
caveman browed vampire. We talked
to him about his time at IDW, his
relationship with Chris Ryall,
what his geekiest posession is
and just how rock and roll the
life of a comic writer is. The
answers may surprise you. He may
also be joking…” Click
Here to read the full interview.
NEWS POSTED December 01, 2006
*“Joss
Whedon Fray” website
updated
*Click
Here
to redirect to our sister
site.
NEWS POSTED November 29, 2006
Joss
Whedon Comic Book
News
In
addition to relaunching Buffy Season Eight in comic book
format for March, Joss is
currently wrapping up his run on
Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men with
his final arc “Unstopabble,” and
following it up with a Giant Size
Astonishing X-Men #1, slated for
later in 2007.
February sees Joss take over for Brian K. Vaughn for a six-issue stint on Marvel’s Runways with issue #25, with New Excalibur artists Michael Ryan. In the fall Joss is resurrecting Serenity, with a three issue mini-series titled “Better Days,” along with co-writer Brett Mathews and artist Will Conrad, taking place before the movie.
Angel Scriptbook Volume 1 TPB Available Today
Angel Scriptbook Vol. 1 collects the scripts from ‘City of’, ‘A Hole in the World’, ‘Spin the Bottle’, ‘Waiting in the Wings’ and ‘Five by Five’.
Click Here for more information.
Last
Man Standing: Vampirella vs.
Buffy*
*WIZARD
answered fan boy dreams by
pitting vampire legend Vampirella
against the Slayer of
vampires.
Who wins? Click Here to find out!
“Buffy”
Cover Artist Jo
Chen
Jo
Chen, most well known to American
comic readers as the cover artist
of Marvel Comics’ Runaways is
also the upcoming artist for Dark
Horse’s relaunch of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer. She gave us the exclusive details
that she had recently finished
the cover for the third issue.
Click
here
to view her personal
website.
NEWS POSTED November 22, 2006
“Joss
Whedon Fray” website
updated
Future
Slayer, Melaka Fray, made her
latest appearance in a pin-up for
Dark Horse’s 20th Anniversary 25
Cent Issue that was done by Emily
the Strange creator Buzz Parker.
Click
Here
to visit to the “Fray”
Site.
Angel:
Auld Lang Syne #1 Available
Today*
*Keeping
with the grand tradition of the
comic book world, IDW launch a
team-up mini-series. Angel and
Spike. The two vampires with a
soul in a new adventure. Fan
favourite Scott Tipton writes the
story with David Messina drawing
it. Click
Here to view David Messina’s cover. Click
Here to view the retailer incentive cover.
*A
“Buffy” comic! Joss Whedon gives
us a sneak
peek
*Entertainment
Weekly’s Jeff Jensen chats with
the cult-TV master about what he
sees as “Season Eight “ of his beloved
show. Click
Here to read the article and get a sneak peak at the comic
NEWS POSTED November 16, 2006
Site Update: NEW
FORMAT!!!
So
I’ve decided to update the main
page (what you’re viewing right
now) yet again, and make it a bit
more user friendly. With the
upcoming relaunch of the Buffy
Comic a few months away, this
page will serve as both an index
for updates to this site, as well
acting as a source for Buffy
comic related news &
information. If you come across
an article that relates at all to
the Buffy comic or other comic
work of Joss Whedon, please feel
free to e-mail
me
and I’ll post it up right away.
Also, please feel free to add us
to your friends list on
MySpace,
and help spread the
word!
Buffy,
Back From The Dead @ Wizard
Universe
“You
thought the story of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer ended with the TV
show? Think again! This March,
your favorite slayer returns for
‘Season Eight,’ in a new series
from Dark Horse Comics written by
the television series’ creator,
Joss Whedon!”
“Whedon will return to his cult-classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer with superstar artist Georges Jeanty. The series will follow in the tradition of the television show by running in ‘seasons,’ with a host of smaller arcs within…” Click Here to read the rest of the article.
Joss Whedon Astonishing X-Men #18
Available
Astonishing
X-Men #18, concluding to the
arc “Torn,” finally came out this
week! Click
Here to preview.
“Scott has recovered from Emma’s attack and shoots the White Queen he finds in the basement with Kitty and Peter. He then proceeds to shoot the rest of the Hellfire Club, explaining “I’m an X-Man. I don’t shoot people. I’m just trying to make a point.” What point exactly? That the Hellfire Club isn’t really there.” Hooked? Click Here to read the rest of the review.
NEWS POSTED November 11, 2006
Buffy
Omnibus
To
coincide with the upcoming
relaunch of Buffy, Dark Horse
will be releasing a Buffy Omnibus
early next year, which will
collect the entire BtVs Vol. 1
series in six or seven volumes,
in addition to other
Buffy-related stories printed in
other Dark Horse books with the
exception of Tales of the Slayers
and Tales of the
Vampires.
Dark Horse editor Scott Allie informed me that the Omnibus will be arranged by storyline chronology. This most likely means that the first volume of the Omnibus will collect the “Buffy: Year One” storyline that ran through issues 51-63, and short story published in the Dark Horse one-shot Reveal #1, “Angels We Have Seen on High.”
**Jeph
Loeb To Write Buffy
**Comics
Continuum has reported that Jeph
Loeb will be writing an arc of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season
8, the new Dark Horse Comics
series picking up from where the
television show ended.
Jeph’s son, Sam, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 17 after a three-year battle with cancer, had collaborated with artist Tim Sale for the 2004 short story “Some Like It Hot” in Tales of The Vampires #5.
NEWS POSTED November 09, 2006
Solicitation
for Angel: Auld Lang Syne
#4
Angel
and Spike put their heads
together to discover who’s been
manipulating them from afar! And
what better way to get to the
bottom of things than some good
old-fashioned breaking and
entering! It’s an all-vampire
museum heist! Written by Scott
Tipton
with full art and colors provided
by David Messina. Stephen Mooney provides a
variant cover, too. Click
Here to view David Messina’s cover. Available February 2007.
Spike: Asylum #3 Available Now
Asylum writer Brian Lynch speaks to Broken Frontier about the sereies, as well as the challenges of writing licensed comics, interaction with fandom and some of his favorite Buffyverse episodes and plots Here.
Click Here to view Franco Urru’s Asylum #4 cover. Matt Bush’s cover is located in the Spike@IDW section.
NEWS POSTED October 26, 2006
Georges Jeanty speaks to the Comics Continuum
“I’ve finished the first issue,” Jeanty told The Continuum on at the Motor City Comic-Con in Novi, Mich. “I hope to finish everything by December.”
Jeanty said he’s enjoyed working with writer and Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who hand-picked him for the project, which picks up from the end of the television series.
“He’s a full-script kind of guy. Everything is there,” Jeanty said. “But I will talk to him about specifics. He’s very, very giving.”
Jeanty was originally concerned in dealing with likenesses, but he said that’s working out well.
Angel: Masks Available this week
Click
Here to view Zach Howard’s cover.
IGN has a sneak peak at each of the four special stories in this Halloween-themed annual. Click Here to view.
Astonishing X-Men #20 Solicitation
Written by Joss Whedon, Pencils & cover by John Cassaday. “Unstoppable” Part 2 (of 6) The secret is out! With the knowledge that Colossus is the mutant destined to destroy Breakworld, what will Ord’s next move be?! And what exactly has happened to Cyclops?!
NEWS POSTED July 18, 2006
First Look at New Buffy Comic *
*****From comics she was born, and to comics she shall return: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s post-cancellation adventures will soon begin anew penned by Joss Whedon himself in the pages of Dark Horse Comics. Here’s the cover image by artist Jo Chen. Dark Horse will debut issue 1 at Comic-Con this week. Click
Here to view he cover tin full size.
So what’s going on in the extended Buffyverse? Well, you may recall the show ended with the creation of an army of Slayers. Now they’re organized, and the tide has turned in favor of the good guys. Ah, but you know how much Whedon hates winners: Soon an “old enemy” surfaces, and Dawn starts “experiencing serious growing pains.”
Buffy Season Eight News *
*He wasn’t a fan when the show was on the air, but Georges Jeanty loves Buffy the Vampire Slayer now.
Jeanty, who had never watched the show through its seven seasons on The WB and UPN, was Buffy creator Joss Whedon’s hand-picked selection as artist for Dark Horse Comics’ upcoming Buffy series, which serves as a “Season 8,” picking up where the show ended on UPN.
“They were nice enough to send me the DVDs from the last two seasons,” Jeanty told the Continuum. “And I really missed out on something, how good it actually is and how comic-related it is.” Click Here for more.
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