Boom Studios released the first look at Buffy The Last Vampire Slayer, a new comic mini-series set 30 years after the end of the original television show.
First posted by Polygon, in a story similar to Logan, writer Casey Gilly (Femme Magnifique, You Died) and artist Joe Jaro (Firefly) created an all-new series that follows Buffy Summers (or Old Woman Buffy), now in her 50s, as she fights through a post-apocalyptic future where a magical disaster has blocked out the sun, allowing vampires to freely roam the earth. Buffy spent nearly 30 years just fighting to survive, believing that the Slayer line had ended, but that might change when she finds a young girl who might be able to end the fighting.
Buffy The Last Vampire Slayer #1 is the first of four installments in this latest mini-series from Boom Studios. The first issue comes with the main cover by Ario Anindito, as well as four unique variant covers by artists Dani Pendergast, Jakub Rebelka, Giuseppe Camuncoli (which reveals that Buffy had made her way to London) and Rod Reis, whose cover features an older, sword-wielding Xander. Whether the rest of the Scooby Gang (Xander, Willow and Giles) survived the vampire apocalypse and will once again join Buffy in her fight against darkness has not yet been revealed.
The new variant covers also come with character designs drawn by Jaro of the older, crossbow touting Buffy and the future version of Spike. This version of Buffy doesn't have to worry about high school drama or rival Slayers -- the apocalypse will put all of those stresses into perspective, anyway.
Along with this Logan-esque miniseries, Boom Studios will continue to publish the ongoing Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic series. Typically, across the history of the Buffy multiverse, Slayers are forced to fight alone as the only Slayer at any given time. However, this isn't the case in the current comic series, as the most recent issue, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #29, which was released in September 2021, saw the Scythe, one of the most powerful weapons in the original Slayerverse in the hands of a Slayer other than Buffy.
Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer #1 is set to hit stores in Dec. 8, 2021, for $4.99.
Source: Polygon