Comic Books

‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘BTVS Classic’ Issues 28-38 (2000-01) (Comic book reviews)

Writers Tom Fassbender and Jim Pascoe begin the second major run of consistent authorship on Dark Horse’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic” in steadier fashion

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‘Buffy’/‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Past Lives’ (2001) (Comic book review)

The “Angel” monthly writing team of Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski deliciously digs into Buffyverse lore and smoothly ties together the two titles with the

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Angel’ Classic Issues 8-17 (2000-01) (Comic book reviews)

Since Tom Sniegoski joined Christopher Golden as a co-writer, and once Wesley joined Angel and Cordelia in the crime-solving trio, the “Angel” comic hit its

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Angel’ Classic Issues 1-7 and Dark Horse Presents Issues 153-155 (1999-2000) (Comic book reviews)

Christopher Golden is arguably the elite “Buffy”/“Angel” spinoff writer, but the early issues of Dark Horse’s classic “Angel” series prove he’s not infallible. I assume

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Jonathan’ (2001) and ‘Reunion’ (2002) (Comic book reviews)

For the Season 4 episode “Superstar,” Dark Horse created a “Jonathan” comic book as a prop, and inevitably, it later became a real comic –

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Haunted’ (2001-02) (Comic book review)

Did you know that Buffy worked through her problems in a dream state at the end of Season 3, just like she did in the

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Annual ’99,’ ‘Giles’ (2000) and ‘Lover’s Walk’ (2001) (Comic book reviews)

In addition to the main series and miniseries, in the early days of the “Buffy” license, Dark Horse was good for at least one one-shot

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‘Buffy’/‘Angel’ flashback: Wizard special issues (1999-2000) (Comic book reviews)

In the early years of Dark Horse’s main “Buffy” and “Angel” series, the comic magazine Wizard sponsored two bonus issues – “Buffy” No. ½ (July

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‘Buffy’ flashback: Dark Horse Presents stories (1998-2000) (Comic book reviews)

In addition to the main “Buffy” series and its miniseries and one-shots, Dark Horse put out several short tales about the Slayer in its early

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Angel: The Hollower’ (1999) and ‘Spike & Dru’ (1999-2000) (Comic book reviews)

Angel’s first “solo” adventure actually came out a few months before his debut as a TV leading man. Although later collected in a trade paperback

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