As the Walt Disney Firm prepares to usher in a new period for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise with a live-action TV collection sequel with a new slayer alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar’s titular heroine, Disney has moved the franchise’s comedian books from BOOM! Studios over to a new writer: Dynamite. And Dynamite is not simply bringing Buffy again to comics, however can also be relaunching the Angel collection side-by-side.
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer is actually considered one of the crown jewels of recent tv, and comics followers know that she’s greater than made her mark on this medium as properly,” stated Dynamite CEO/writer/proprietor Nick Barrucci. “The genius mixture of its small-town vibes with fantasy and horror, the seamless touches of humor, unbelievable sturdy feminine characters that we have been proud to all the time symbolize at Dynamite — all of it works collectively for a good set of characters and framework for tales. Together with Angel! Which we’re excited to contribute to and construct for new and returning followers!”
Whereas Dynamite is retaining particulars on the story – and if it is a reboot, a continuation, or one thing else of earlier TV reveals, comics, and even the film – it has picked out a author for each the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comedian and the Angel comedian. In accordance to Dynamite collection editor Nate Cosby, they did not take a look at any earlier Buffy writers (from the comics or TV collection), or, frankly, anybody – besides for one individual: Kelly Thompson.
“Her ardour for these characters is second-to-none,” Cosby says of Thompson. “The interweaving story she’s crafted for each books goes to knock everybody’s socks off.”
Thompson comes to revive the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comedian franchise after she simply did the similar with DC’s Marvel Girl in Absolute Marvel Girl, and did it in the previous for Jem & The Holograms.
“In my early days making an attempt to work out how to be a author and what tales mattered to me and why — no heroine fairly broke by way of for me like Buffy Summers,” says Thompson. “She was one way or the other every little thing my younger geek coronary heart had all the time needed however hadn’t identified to ask for. One thing about that delicate alchemy of horror, fantasy, and comedy paired with a hero so pure of coronary heart and but flawed and relatable was… inconceivable to deny. I fell deeply in love with Buffy, and following that, her entire world. Her ex-boyfriend is now a supernatural detective in Los Angeles you say? Inject it instantly into my veins! However not like a lot of different worlds I beloved, the world of Buffy and Angel one way or the other by no means fell to the wayside. I may all the time come again to it and discover one thing new, or one thing I’d missed, or one thing I wanted. And I hope this new story we’re telling can do the similar for outdated and new followers in every single place.”
Dynamite has chosen not to identify the artist(s) drawing the Buffy and Angel comedian e book collection simply but, however does say that David Nakayama will probably be drawing some covers for the two titles.
These particulars, as properly as a deliberate launch date for these books, will probably be coming later this yr, in accordance to Dynamite.
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