Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 9

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 9 , or Buffy Season 9 , is a comic series in the US under the title Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 as a continuation of 2007 appeared to 2011 comic book series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 8 sold becomes. It is, like its predecessor, the canonical sequel to the successful American television series Buffy - The Vampire Slayer , which ended in 2003 after seven seasons.

Season 9 includes a new Buffy offshoot, Angel & Faith , which, like the main series, includes 25 individual issues. It was published in the USA from August 31, 2011 to August 28, 2013 by Darkhorse-Verlag. In Germany, the comic series is distributed by Panini-Verlag. While Buffy has already been published in five anthologies, each with five individual issues, Angel & Faith has so far published three volumes in German.

The plot of the main series focuses on Buffy, who now lives in San Francisco and has to face the challenges of a world freed from magical influence. The companion series Angel & Faith , on the other hand, is based in London and continues several story threads from the eighth Buffy season. The miniseries Willow: Wonderland and Spike: A Dark Place , each consisting of five additional issues, create the necessary connection between the two storylines. So far only the Willow miniseries under the title Buffy Season 9 Volume 6: Willow has appeared in German.

After the series continued with season 10 (6 volumes) and season 11 (3 volumes), it got a conclusion with season 12 (only 1 volume) in which all Handlunds strands were merged. After that, the series was restarted in a more modern design as a reboot.

Authors and illustrators

This time, Andrew Chambliss took on the role of writer of the main series after Joss Whedon was otherwise employed due to filming for his film Marvel's The Avengers . The main series' writing team also included Scott Allie, Jane Espenson and Drew Z. Greenberg. Christos Gage wrote the offshoot Angel & Faith alone. The illustrators Jo Chen, Karl Moline and Georges Jeanty, Rebekah Isaacs ( Angel & Faith ) as well as Paul Lee and Brian Ching (mini series) were responsible for the graphic implementation of the comics.

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Buffy

Volume 1: "In Free Fall"

Volume 1 contains the collection of issues 1 to 5

In the finale of the eighth season Buffy the human world by destroying the seed (Engl. Seed cut off) of all supernatural influence. However, this had the consequence that all magic was banned from the universe and left Buffy's best friend Willow as a witch powerless. Buffy ended the long line of vampire slayers and has been hated by hundreds of girls since then. Hoping for a fresh start, Buffy has moved to San Francisco, where she lives in a shared apartment with two flatmates. She goes to university and works as a waitress in a coffee shop. At night Buffy goes on a vampire hunt in the usual manner, even if there is not much left for her to do. Relationships with her sister Dawn and best friends Xander and Willow are still overshadowed by the events of season eight. Riley, Spike and Andrew are the only ones who are fully behind her. Since the banishment of magic from the human world, it is no longer possible for the demonic part of the newly created vampires to take full control of their human side after their transformation. This creates a mindless bloodthirsty creature that has more in common with a zombie than with a common vampire and is therefore commonly referred to as a zompir.

SFPD ( San Francisco Police Department ) investigators, Dowling and Cheung, are investigating several mysterious murders in which the victims are former vampires. With her regular patrols (and accusations from an anonymous caller), Buffy attracts investigators' attention and is arrested for questioning. She escapes and triggers a large-scale manhunt for herself, but all of her friends deny her refuge. Buffy decides to investigate the crimes on her own. On the hunt, she meets a man named Severin who has the ability to deprive magical beings, such as vampires and hunters, of their powers. As it turns out, he is responsible for the latest "series of murders", as he stripped the zompirs of their demonic side until only a dead human shell remained. First Severin offers Buffy his help in the fight against the Zompire, but later lures them into a trap in order to deprive them of their powers. He acts on behalf of the malicious huntress Simone Doffler, who is still on the vengeance campaign against Buffy. While trying to rob Buffy of her powers, Severin is shot by the arriving police and taken to the hospital. As a result, Buffy is exonerated as a suspect in the murder cases. In the hospital, Severin receives a visit from Simone Doffler, who he asks for some magical energy so that he can heal himself. Simone refuses and instead announces that she will use her energy to finally kill Buffy.

Volume 2: "On your own"

Volume 2 contains the collection of volumes 6 to 10

A veritable Zompir plague breaks out in San Francisco, whereupon the SFPD asks Buffy for her help in dealing with the crisis. Since Buffy is unable to attend due to an unexpected personal emergency, Spike steps in for her. Spike teaches Detective Dowling everything about vampires. When asked, he tells him his story and how his alliance with the huntress came about. Dowling notices that Spike still loves Buffy. This realization hits Spike himself very badly and makes him brood. When Dowling and his partner are attacked by a horde of Zompirs a little later, Spike and Buffy rush to their aid. Cheung is nevertheless bitten and killed by a zompir. Buffy is also attacked and injured, and it turns out that she is not in her own body, but in the Buffy bot known from season 6. Following a plot by Spike and Andrew, who feared an assassination attempt on Buffy, their minds were transmitted to the robot without their knowledge. Her body believes she is someone else, overseen by Andrew in a quiet suburb of San Francisco. Simone Doffler sees through the dizziness, finds the whereabouts of Buffy's human body and kidnaps him. In collaboration with Spike and Andrew, Buffy manages to free her body. Simone escapes them again. Before Andrew puts Buffy's mind back in her body, Spike says goodbye to Buffy and leaves San Francisco to rearrange his feelings.

While Buffy are on their mission with Spike and Andrew, Xander and Dawn are the only remaining Scoobies asked for help: Detective Cheung wakes up as Zompir and turns the rooms of the SFPD upside down. Together with Xander, Dowling succeeds in destroying the Zompir. Meanwhile, a conflict between Dawn and Xander becomes apparent. At Dawn's urging, Xander admits he's struggling to adjust to an orderly life that has been unthinkable for years since meeting Buffy.

Volume 3: "Buffyguard"

Volume 3 contains the collection of volumes 11 to 15

Buffy joins Kennedy's bodyguard company DeepScan , hoping to break free from the demon world and earn more money for a living , which hires out former slayers as bodyguards to high-profile customers. But she has trouble getting used to hunting, as Kennedy asked. Kennedy, a formerly very ambitious and enthusiastic hunter, explains to Buffy that she has long since renounced demon hunting because she does not see her future in it. In addition, she is convinced that the world must now cope with the dangers of this world without the help of a hunter. In a bar, Buffy meets the demon Koh, whom she recognizes as Spike's ally in the fight against Severin. Koh asks Buffy for her help in his search for the demon that held him under a spell before the seeds were destroyed in order to get revenge on him, but she refuses. Buffy's first client to protect is the operator of the interdimensional social network TinCan , Theo Daniels. He had once got involved with the demonic law firm Wolfram & Hart, from which he is now threatened. On her mission to paralyze the TinCan network, Buffy is forced to seek help from the demon Koh. Together with Theo and Kennedy, they break into the TinCan's server center . It turns out that Koh has made a deal with Wolfram & Hart to sabotage Buffy's plans and in return to get information about the demon he is looking for. However, Koh cannot complete his assignment and Buffy's group manages to shut down TinCan . Despite Buffy's urgent advice, Koh does not want to give up his desire for revenge. Kennedy offers Buffy a well-paid permanent position, but she refuses, realizing that she does not want to use her gift as a hunter for self-interest.

In a small Californian town, Billy and Devon, both fans of the now well-known Scooby gang, team up to hunt down the zompire. Billy takes on the role of the hunter and Devon that of his guardian. When a horde of zompirs overrun the local library, the homosexual couple manages to free all civilians and destroy the zompirs. Your case is receiving a lot of media attention. The boys are then invited by Buffy to San Francisco for professional training from their team.

Volume 4: "Welcome to the gang"

Volume 4 contains the collection of issues 16 to 20

Buffy takes on the fight against the Zompir epidemic in San Francisco with new allies (SFPD and Billy). Torn in the middle of a fight with an overpowering Zompir woman, Buffy finds herself in Los Angeles, where she was teleported by Illyria. She has to face a demon council whose members were forced to form an alliance due to the loss of magic in the world to protect the last existing magical resources together. Here Buffy meets the top vengeance demon D'Hoffryn, who once recruited Xander's ex-fiancée Anya as a vengeance demon. Buffy learns that Severin, whom they call Siphon , is still a threat to her: Severin robs various demons of their powers. Even if Buffy has nothing against Severin's approach, she promises to find out what motives are behind his actions. She finally comes to the realization that Illyria (a former demon god who has nested in the body of Winifred Burkle) is Severin's real goal, since he has the power he desires to be able to travel through time. With this Severin wants to undo the death of his former girlfriend. He actually manages to use a trick to rob Illyria of his powers. Illyria now finds herself in the weak, human body of her hostess; the other demons flee and go into hiding.

Finally, back in San Francisco, Buffy is caught up in the effects of the banishment of magic. Her sister Dawn, who was originally a mystical key to various dimensions, was deprived of her livelihood due to the lack of magic. She becomes seriously ill and threatens to literally vanish into thin air. This causes an argument between Xander and Buffy, who has not yet forgiven her for the events surrounding Twilight, which also resulted in Giles' death. In his apartment, Severin and Simone Doffler visit Xander, who offer him an alliance: if he steals Buffy's Vampire book for them , Severin would use his new strength to undo Twilight's work in season 8. After a moment's hesitation, Xander agrees. Meanwhile, Buffy calls on all of her allies to rescue her sister. On a rooftop, she and Andrew are surprised by the return of Willow, who embarked on an odyssey at the beginning of the season to regain her power as a witch. She is once again in possession of magical powers and carries Buffy's repaired scythe (a magical item and the Slayer's traditional weapon) with her.

Volume 5: "The Core"

Volume 5 contains the collection of issues 21 to 25

Willow tries to heal the dying Dawn, but fails because her powers are not strong enough. Meanwhile, the beaten up Xander appears through a portal and tells the worried Buffy about his encounter with Severin and Simone. He claims that the two adversaries found a way to undo Twilight's actions. They offered him cooperation, but he refused. Together with her allies, Buffy works out a plan to save Dawn. Due to Severin's interest in the Vampyr book, Buffy and her friends suspect that he is looking for the "Deep Well", which is an enormous magical source due to its function as the resting place of numerous powerful prehistoric demons, the Old Ones . They want to travel there themselves to give Willow the opportunity to fully recharge her magical powers and then heal Dawn. The entrance to the well, guarded by Demon Warriors, is in a hollow tree in the Cotswolds, England; the well goes through the earth's interior and exits on the other side, in New Zealand. Xander travels with Buffy and Willow while the returned Spike tends to the dying Dawn. Meanwhile, Xander reveals to Severin and Simone Buffy's plans and everything he knows about the fountain. So Severin and Simone go to New Zealand to enter the fountain from there.

Once in the Cotswolds, Buffy has to face an army of demons, led by D'Hoffryn, who refuse to give her access to the only remaining source of her strength. Surprisingly, Illyria and Koh appear and offer Buffy their help, which she reluctantly accepts. The fight seems hopeless and Xander begins to understand the scope of his betrayal. His feelings of guilt force him to confess: Xander tells of Severin's plan to want to turn back time and of his attempt to enter the Deep Well with Simone Doffler from New Zealand. Thereupon, however, Illyria declares that Severin's plan will certainly fail because he himself as a demon in his original form was not able to do it. Rather, Severin would tear the world apart and plunge it into an apocalypse. Disappointed by Xander's betrayal, Buffy is forced to save the world again. She forms an alliance with the Demon Council to stop Severin and Simone, and her team is allowed to enter the well. In the meantime Severin has long since begun to soak up the magical energy of the fountain, but it is gradually becoming too much for him. Willow's magic creates a new seed, which, however, would take millennia to develop its full potential. But with the help of Illyria it is possible to transfer the powers that Severin has to the new seed in order to accelerate this process. As a result, the magic is restored in the world. Illyria stays with Severin to ensure the success of the campaign. Meanwhile, Simone awakens the original demon Maloker, who once created the first vampire, and lets him transform herself. This gives her amazing physical abilities and keeps her intelligence. There is a fight between Buffy's troop and Maloker, while Simone first wins the upper hand in a duel with Buffy. She eventually tries to escape from the well, leaving Maloker to finish off Buffy. However, Buffy manages to kill Simone with the scythe and to leave the well just in time before Severin explodes and dies together with Maloker and Illyria.

Back in San Francisco, Willow uses her magic and Buffy's blood to restore Dawn. Xander apologizes to Buffy for his actions and is forgiven. Willow notices an enigmatic change in the world she felt during her spell. Looking for answers, Willow and Buffy find that the pages of the book Vampyr are completely blank. In an undetermined place, a newly created vampire wakes up, who - in contrast to the Zompirs - retains his intelligence, tolerates the sun and is able to change shape.

Angel & Faith

Vol. 1

Volume 1 contains the collection of issues 1 to 5

Angel still feels deeply guilty about his actions under Twilight's influence in season eight of Buffy , particularly the murder of Buffy's guardian and father substitute Rupert Giles. After months of depression, Angel and Faith complete their first mission together: they destroy a demon who has taken possession of a little girl. Angel and Faith share Giles' property, which Faith inherited after his death. After their experiences in season 8, the slayer Nadira and her slayer squad, which was previously led by Giles, are out to get revenge on Angel, which is why Faith is hiding her collaboration with him. At a meeting, Nadira tells Faith about the demonic siblings Pearl and Nash, who are killing hunters in rows. Faith learns from Angel that the parents of Pearl and Nash (a human and a demon) were loyal followers of Twilight and had high hopes for the new world order he was striving for, in which they saw their children as the new "Adam" and Have seen "Eva". The siblings now seem to be on the warpath with Angel and the Slayers due to the foiled evolution. Meanwhile, the half-demon Whistler laments the loss of magic in the world, as a result of which he has lost his balance, his clairvoyant abilities and contact with the higher powers. He conspires with Pearl and Nash to finish Twilight's original plan.

Faith helps the Slayers under Nadira to find their way in the new world, in which there is not much left for them to do; The huntsmen had told her that Nadira was having trouble keeping her hunting instinct under control. She got into a brawl with some men just to fight again. Faith shows the Slayers how to deal with their urges without harming people. When the girls express their respect and trust in her and ask her to become their leader, Faith shies away from responsibility and refuses the request. Nadira later learns that Pearl and Nash are in London and looks forward to revenge on them.

Angel devises a plan to bring Giles back to life. Faith initially considers his project to be impossible, but nevertheless supports him in his research for a suitable method. The two seek the help of a former friend of Giles, Alasdair Coames, who collects the remaining magical objects on earth and, despite his own doubts, from now on provides them with advice and assistance. Angel and Faith agree that they will stop him if Angel breaks certain limits. At times, Angel attracts attention with strange behavior: he has recently started wearing reading glasses and prefers to drink tea than blood.

Vol. 2: "Father joys"

Volume 2 contains the collection of volumes 6 to 10

Faith and Angel have to fight a demon with whom Giles had a traumatizing encounter in his Guardian training. The demon Lorophage has the quality of sucking the brains of its victims (whose worst memories attract it) and appears only every few decades. Most of his victims do not survive the procedure; those who do lose their minds (similar to Glory in Buffy season 5). Recently, however, most of the victims have survived the ordeal. Through Alasdair, Faith and Angel come to the conclusion that the demon needs to be controlled by someone. They find out that this is Spike's former mad companion Drusilla, whose sanity has been restored by the demon. In search of a new "pet" Drusilla the Lorophage demon was recommended. This sucked out the part of her spirit that made her sick and healed her in this way. Then she decided to emulate her "father" (Angel) and henceforth to help the helpless: She takes people who suffer from traumatic experiences, hers Pain while feeding her pet. Out of gratitude, people let Drusilla bite them so that she too can feed on them. After Angel finally succeeds in killing the demon, he also reverses his work in Drusilla, whereupon the latter goes mad again and disappears for the time being.

Nadira's campaign of revenge against Pearl and Nash takes on delusional traits. When Faith tries to make her see her senses, she loses Nadira's trust. Meanwhile, Faith's father Patrick ("Pat") Lehane surprisingly turns up in London to reconcile with his daughter. He claims to be dry again and to have changed. Convinced by Angel, Faith gives her father another chance. It turns out that Pat is in trouble with a gang of thugs that he owes a lot of money to. Faith is stunned and deeply disappointed when her father demands of her to kill the men for him. Together with Angel, Faith puts the crooks to flight. Then there is another break between Pat and his daughter, whereby many aspects of their relationship, which for Faith is deeply hurtful, become obvious. Angry, Angel throws Pat out of the house with the request to leave town as soon as possible and never to contact his daughter again.

Angel finally reveals to Faith the secret about his piercing, which she has already discovered on him. It is the tooth of Ammuk (English Tooth of Ammuk ), an Egyptian relic, to which a mystical ability is ascribed. The Egyptians believed that a soul was made up of nine parts. The Ammuk tooth is supposed to help Angel to transfer all parts of Giles' soul into his own body until it is complete, in order to later get Giles up again. In addition, Angel and Faith receive another unexpected visit from Giles' great aunts Lavinia and Sophronia (Sophie) Fairweather. Both are powerful witches who have kept their youthfulness through magic and dealing with demons. When Angel reveals to them that he wants to revive Giles, he is amazed to find that they already know about it. However, the sisters openly disagree on what they think of this plan.

Vol. 3: "Family ties"

Volume 3 contains the collection of volumes 11 to 15

Willow shows up at Angel's door after learning from Andrew that he has sought her help. But the two get into an argument about Angel's intention to revive Giles. Angel explains that he is looking for magical items related to important events in Giles' life. Buffy's scythe is one of those magical items that Giles had in his hands at the time of his death. Despite her concerns, Willow forms an alliance with Angel: he will help her restore the magic to the world and she will help him bring Giles back. For this, Willow needs the help of Connor, Angel's son, who is supposed to bring her to the hell dimension of Quor'toth, in which he grew up. Angel initially refuses to involve his son in the matter, but finally gives in on the condition that the decision about whether he will participate in the matter is left to Connor alone. They travel to Los Angeles and win Connor for the mission. In Quor'toth, Willow regains her power and is saved by Angel at the last moment from being overpowered by her alter ego, Dark Willow. As a thank you for his help, Angel is allowed to collect the part of Giles' soul from the scythe. While Willow then moves on to another dimension, Angel, Connor and Faith return to Los Angeles. In London, Whistler, Pearl and Nash break into Angel and Faith's apartment and steal all of the artifacts Angel has collected for the purpose of Giles' recovery. Whistler leaves an address where Angel can find him. In addition, Nadira's slayer squad finds out that Angel is in London and Faith is working with him.

Upon his return to London, Angel meets Whistler at a pizzeria and confronts him about his collaboration with Pearl and Nash. In the following conversation, Angel learns Whistler's sad story: His parents were murdered by the higher powers because their love (between a demon and a human) was forbidden. By later bringing Buffy and Angel together, Whistler sought to give meaning to his parents' deaths. Whistler had high hopes for the new universe Buffy and Angel were to create together. In Twilight, good and bad, magic and science, as well as light and darkness, were united in complete equilibrium. Angel gambled away this chance for the planet and left Whistler powerless. He plans to use the energy gathered from magical artifacts to spread magic in the world so that it can flourish and influence it. Whistler is not interested in the fact that billions of human lives are at stake. The collaboration with Nash and Pearl is only a stopgap solution for him and he wishes Angel would ally with him instead. Angel realizes that he owes a lot to Whistler, but accuses him of being out of his mind and offers to help with this. Furious, Whistler throws himself at Angel, armed with a stake, but doesn't have the heart to destroy him.

Vol. 4

Volume 4 contains the collection of issues 16 to 20

On the hunt for more artifacts, Faith and Angel fight a demon in Peru that can regenerate itself. They seize the magical object that gives the demon this power and give it to Alasdair Coame to research. When they open Giles' grave to find his remains, they find that the coffin is empty.

The hunters under Nadira's leadership appear in front of Faith and Angel's residence. Nadira has brought the body of the huntress Marianne, who was killed in Drusilla's recent attack, and demands that Angel help them bring Marianne back to life. Since they do not get their way, the girls first withdraw and terminate their friendship with Faith. The slayers are called to a villa by a man who promises to help Marianne. When they get there, the man turns out to be Giles, who seems to be alive and well. He begins the ritual by painting, among other things, the symbol of Eyghon on Marianne's body. Eyghon was the demon that Giles and his friends at the time conjured up, as a result of which almost all of them perished. Only Giles and his future enemy Ethan Rayne survived thanks to Angel Eyghon's revenge. After Marianne has apparently resurrected, Nadira notices a strange behavior on the part of her friend. Giles then announces that he intends to kill all of them in order to abuse them as hosts. A fight ensues against his zombie army, which the girls threaten to lose. Faith and Angel, now realizing that Eyghon has taken Ethan's and Giles' bodies, show up just in time to assist the Slayers. They manage to save almost all the girls and Eyghon swears revenge.

Angel admits she already knew the demon was still alive. After his powers were fully restored, Eyghon wanted to continue his campaign of revenge against Ethan and Giles, but they were both already dead. But since Ethan and Giles wore the mark of Eyghon on them, he could keep control of their corpses. Angel claims that part of Giles' soul is in Eyghon because of his history and that his soul could not leave the earth dimension as a result. He wants to try to withdraw them from Eyghon by destroying the demon for good. To this end, he asks for Spike's help, since Eyghon is unable to take possession of vampires and Angel alone is not strong enough to defeat the demon. This assumption turns out to be wrong, but in collaboration with Faith, Nadira and their hunters they finally succeed in defeating Eyghon. After that, Angel has some sort of identity conflict between his own and Giles' restored soul and Angelus. Alasdair decides to free him from Giles' soul and transfer it to a mystical vessel. This vessel is suitable for the group of a horde of soul-eating demons.

Vol. 5

Volume 5 contains the collection of issues 21 to 25

In the course of Giles' resuscitation, Alasdair instructs the others to visualize Giles, with his aunts imagining him as a little boy. Once the ritual is complete, this means that the restored Giles will now find himself in the body of his 12-year-old self. Frustrated and angry at this outcome, he accuses his rescuers of ruining his life again. He is also indignant about the fact that instead of addressing the threat posed by Whistler, Pearl and Nash, they have been focusing their energies on reviving him.

Meanwhile, Whistler, Pearl and Nash are about to unleash a plague over the world. The group locates their whereabouts and prepares for a losing battle. Once there, as a distraction and to give Whistler more time to implement his plan, they are attacked by Pearl and Nash. Whistler can create a ball of energy with which he begins to distribute magic over the world. Surprisingly, Nadira shows up at the scene and attacks Nash, which is why Angel is able to get to Whistler. For the first time, Whistler shows his demonic face in the form of a horned demon and disarms Angel with new skills. Nadira is defeated in the fight against Nash and is apparently killed by him. Whistler's bundle of energy is dropped from a rooftop in combat, discharging a greater amount of energy above the heads of bystanders, who instantly begin to transform into different beings. Lavinia, Sophronia, Alasdair and Giles take care of them. Whistler instructs his allies to use the still intact bundle of energy globally. But Nadira, believed dead, prevents this by ramming a sword into Nash's back and giving Faith the chance to defeat the half-demon. Nadira collapses again and Pearl withdraws from the fight in mourning for her brother. Whistler then wants to carry out his plan himself. In the fight with Angel, he inadvertently absorbs some of the energy, whereupon he returns to his human form and finally comes to his senses. Horrified by his own actions, Whistler decides to prevent the impending explosion of the bundle of energy by absorbing the magic. Since his body cannot take the amount of energy, Whistler dies.

After the fight, Angel and his allies take care of the chaos caused by the mutations. Lavinia and Sophie reap public laurels for averting the crisis. Nadira and Nash unexpectedly survive the battle, but they seem to be going through strange changes. Faith and Giles decide to go back to the US. While Faith plans to join Kennedy's organization, which places hunters as bodyguards for wealthy customers, Giles wants to return to Buffy's team. Before that, he promises Angel to let him know when Buffy is ready to see him again. Meanwhile, Angel wants to take care of the "Magic Town" and help the people who have mutated into monsters through Whistler's actions.

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Angel is a vampire who, together with Darla, Spike and Drusilla, has left a bloody trail in world history since its creation in 1753 under the name Angelus. A gypsy clan put a curse on him around 1900, which gave him back his soul, whereupon he felt remorse for his actions again. Around 90 years later, Angel met the half demon Whistler, who persuaded him to give his life a new purpose and to take the chance to make amends by supporting Buffy, who had just been called to the hunter, in the fight against evil. In the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel and Buffy met and fell in love. Angel broke up with Buffy at the end of season three and left Sunnydale. Together with new friends, he founded the Angel Investigations detective agency in Los Angeles, which specialized in the fight against the supernatural. In the 3rd season of Angel - Hunters of Darkness Angel became the father of a son Connor, who was kidnapped by Angels' bitter enemy Holtz into a hell dimension and brought up to hate his biological father. At the end of Season 5 Angel procured more or less intended an apocalypse, thus fulfilling the Shanshu prophecy , after which he was again mortal, how comic continuation of the canonical Angel: After the Fall (Engl. Angel: After the Fall ) experiences . When he threatened to die after a serious injury, the higher powers turned back time to prevent this. The apocalypse never happened and Angel remained a vampire with a soul. In Season 8 of Buffy , Angel was persuaded by Whistler to fight Buffy's Slayers' organization on behalf of a disembodied force called the Twilight. In the process, he became increasingly obsessed with Twilight and at times lost control of himself. This ended with the destruction of the source of magic in the world and the murder of Buffy's guardian, Rupert Giles. In season 9, Angel lives with Faith in London, who helps him come to terms with the events of season 8 and atone for his guilt for Giles' death. He succeeds in bringing Giles back to life - albeit in the body of a 12-year-old boy. In addition, he prevents another apocalypse that Whistler and the demonic siblings Pearl and Nash are striving for.

Buffy Summers

At the age of fifteen, Buffy found out about her calling to be a vampire slayer and fought until season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer alone against demons and vampires. According to tradition, after Buffy was clinically dead for a few minutes, Kendra was appointed the Slayer. When Kendra died too, Faith became her successor. It was Buffy who broke the tradition of the forefathers in the seventh season using the "scythe", the symbol of the power of the hunters, and at the same time gave all the girls who felt called to this task their powers. She made it her business to train the Slayers who want to join her and founded a secret organization that she ran with her friends from Sunnydale (the "Scooby Gang"). After a loss-making and bitter fight against the US military and Twilight, Buffy destroyed the "Saat" ( Seed of Wonder or just Seed ) at the end of Season 8 to save the human world from destruction. In doing so, she banned all magic from the world and as a result largely lost the support of her hunters and even that of her friends. At the beginning of season 9, Buffy lives in a shared apartment in San Francisco and works as a waitress in a coffee shop. The renegade huntress Simone Doffler teams up with a man named Severin against Buffy. In the fight against the enemy, Buffy finds new allies. At the end of the season, Buffy restores magic to the world with the help of her friends in order to save the life of her little sister Dawn, who cannot survive without magic, in the first place. This leads to further, serious changes in the world, which are roughly indicated in the last scenes of the season.

Dawn Summers

Dawn first appeared in the fifth season of Buffy . Originally it was a bundle of mystical energy, a so-called "key" that has the power to open the gates between different dimensions. To prevent the outcast goddess Glory from returning to her dimension, a monastic association gave the key a carnal form in the form of Dawn and sent her to Sunnydale as Buffy's then 14-year-old sister. Since the destruction of Sunnydale, the relationship between the two sisters has been strained. Dawn played a marginal role in season 8. Due to a curse, she went through several transformations, which were lifted at the end of the season. Dawn fell in love with her old flame, Xander, and the two became a couple. In season 9, she lives with him in San Francisco. As the season progresses, it becomes apparent that the couple struggles with relationship problems. After magic was banished from the world, Dawn was deprived of her livelihood. When she suddenly becomes ill and threatens to die, Buffy does everything she can to restore the magic in the world to save it. Willow uses a spell to restore the now faded Dawn to her fleshly form.

Eldre Koh

Koh is a warrior demon who becomes Buffy's new ally. Innocently accused of murder, he spent long periods of time in a magical prison until Buffy destroyed the seeds and his spell could no longer be maintained. In keeping with the customs of his people, this makes him feel obliged to Buffy. He also swears vengeance on the demon who held him captive. Koh warns Buffy of the siphon , Severin, who turns out to be her new enemy. But Koh also conspires with Wolfram & Hart to get information that should bring him closer to fulfilling his revenge. In the final battle of season 9, Koh supports Buffy and her friends against the demon Maloker and Simone Doffler.

Faith Lehane

Faith was called to be the next Slayer after Kendra's death. Due to her difficult childhood, she was mentally unstable for a long time and at times came to the side of evil, until Angel steered her back on the right track. In the fight against primeval evil (Buffy, Season 7), she supported Buffy and the contenders, and thus regained her trust. At first, Faith wasn't very active in Buffy's Slayers organization until she and Giles began to crack down on the evil Slayers she once was. After Giles' death, she inherited his house in England and tries in the 9th season to rebuild morally because of his actions as Twilight depressed Angel. With him she embarks on various missions to collect fragments of Giles' soul in the world so that Angel can bring him back to life. In addition, she takes care of the English hunter squad under the leadership of Nadira, who is getting increasingly on the wrong track. After the foiled apocalypse in London and the successful revival of Giles, Faith decides to return to the United States and join Kennedy's bodyguard company.

Rupert Giles

Originally from England, Giles was Buffy's second guard until he was released by the Guardian Council and reinstated as such in Season 5. He was always by Buffy when she needed his help, and took over the London Slayer squad in Season 8. Together with Faith, he also took on the slayers who defected to the evil side. Giles' relationship with Buffy had been tense since Sunnydale was destroyed, but by the end of Season 8 they were able to settle their differences to fight Twilight and his allies together. Giles was killed by Twilight-possessed Angel in the same way that Angelus killed his lover, Jenny Calendar, in Season 2. In season 9, Angel succeeds in making amends by bringing Giles back to life. But to his horror, this finds himself in the body of his 12-year-old self, which he first has to get used to. Giles decides to join Buffy in San Francisco at the end of the season.

Illyria

Illyria is an ancient demon god whose essence was kept in a saghophag in the deep well after his death. While working at Wolfram & Hart, Angel's team member Winifred (Fred) Burkle came into contact with the saghophag, which allowed Illyria to slowly implant itself in her body and Fred died. Later, the actually hostile demon fought on Angel's side and has been fighting the evil in the world ever since. In season 9 of Buffy , Illyria acts as a kind of mediator between the Demon Council and Buffy. On their joint mission against Severin, he is robbed of his power and takes the form of the human Fred Burkle again. In the final battle at the end of the season, Illyria sacrifices herself and dies together with Severin in an explosion of magical energy that Severin has collected but could no longer take. However, this enabled the new seed to be recharged and the magic in the world fully restored.

Pearl and Nash

Pearl and Nash are half demons and siblings who sided with Twilight in Season 8. After Twilight's plan to evolve into a higher plane of existence failed, they swore revenge on Angel and the Slayers. To do this, they allied with Whistler. Pearl and Nash were born in 1935 and grew up with their human mother, who was obsessed with the idea of ​​human evolution (through reproduction with demons) and passed on her obsession with it to her children. Pearl and Nash age more slowly than humans - a trait they share with Whistler (also a half-demon). Pearl and Nash had descended from other demons, all of whom were killed by guards including Alasdair Coames. After Nash apparently dies in the final battle with Faith and Nadira, Pearl leaves the scene. Their whereabouts are currently uncertain. It is implied that Nash survived the battle at the end of the season.

Severin aka siphon

Severin is a person who, after Buffy destroyed the seeds, was given the power to absorb the magic of magical beings. That is why it is known in demon circles as a siphon (in German: empty or suck off ). According to the demon Koh, his appearance corresponds to an ancient, dreaded prophecy. Severin allies himself with Simone Doffler. The reason for this lies in his history: Severin and his girlfriend Clare wanted to become vampires and also found a vampire who wanted to grant them their wish. But as a result of the now missing magic in the world, the bitten Clare woke up as a Zompir and tried to kill Severin. So he was forced to destroy his great love. Severin offers Buffy his help in the fight against Zompire, lures her into a trap and tries to rob her of her slayer powers on behalf of Simone. His attempt fails on the one hand because he fell for the Buffy-Bot, and on the other hand because of his dwindling energy reserves in the fight against the Buffy-Bot. In Los Angeles, Severin manages to acquire Illyria's powers, whereupon he decides to turn back time to save Clare's life. Together with Simone, he later convinces Xander to help them get into the deep well. Severin tries to absorb the magical energy of the gigantic resting place of primeval demons, but it quickly becomes clear that his body is not suitable as a vessel for this. Illyria convinces him to transfer the energy to the new seeds Willow created to restore magic to the whole world. As a result, a magical explosion occurs in which both Illyria and Severin perish.

Simone Doffler

Simone , like thousands of other girls, was called a Slayer by Willow's spell at the end of Buffy Season 7. She is prone to violence and feels superior to people, which is why she does not see why she should use her powers to save them. It also has a particular penchant for small arms fire and weapons of mass destruction. Simone began gathering like-minded girls within Buffy's Slayers organization who soon rebelled against Buffy under her leadership. In season eight, Andrew and Buffy tried unsuccessfully to stop her. In the ninth season, Simone appears in San Francisco and finds her ally in Severin for her ongoing campaign of revenge against Buffy. She realizes that the person who appears as Buffy lately is really just the Buffy bot. She kidnaps Buffy's human body, but Spike, Andrew and the Buffy-Bot, "animated" with Buffy's spirit, make it their own again. Simone escapes them again. After that, she plans to become a vampire herself in order to be able to kill Buffy. With Severin she penetrates the deep well at the same time as Buffy and lets herself be bitten by the primal demon Maloker, who created the first vampire on earth. In a brutal final battle, Simone is finally destroyed by Buffy with a scythe.

Spike

Spike is a platinum blonde vampire who, together with Angelus, Darla and his then companion Drusilla, has been murdering William the Bloody since 1880 and is considered one of the most dangerous vampires. In the fourth season, Spike was captured by the "Initiative" and got a chip implanted that made it impossible for him to harm a human (but not demons). Realizing this, he helped Buffy fight evil. In season six, Buffy had a violent affair with Spike. At the end of the sixth season, Spike passed various tests to get his soul back. In the final episode of the seventh season, Spike sacrificed himself in the fight against primeval evil to prevent the impending apocalypse. In the final season of Angel , it was learned that his essence was encased in the amulet he was wearing at the time of his apparent death. He was physically restored and joined Angel's crew. At the end of Buffy Season 8 , he helped defeat Twilight. In season 9, he lives in a spaceship over San Francisco and is one of the few supporters of Buffy. After realizing that he is still in love with her, he leaves town for a while. After a brief stint in London helping Angel on a mission, Spike learns of Dawn's illness and rushes back to San Francisco to care for her while Buffy, Xander, and Willow attempt to restore the magic to the world.

Twilight

Twilight was a non-physical force, similar to The Urböse , which only appeared a few times in the shape of a giant lion at the end of Season 8. That power, in collaboration with Whistler, convinced Angel to act on his cause. In the final installments of the season, it became clear that Twilight was able to take possession of Angel, at least in part, and thus impose his will on him. The love act between Buffy and Angel allowed Twilight to envision herself in the form of a new world. But because Buffy and Angel decided against this world and Buffy had destroyed the source of power, the "seeds", Twilight was defeated. In season 9, Whistler tries to bring about the evolution that was thwarted by Buffy and Angel.

Whistler

Whistler is a demon known from the two series ( Buffy and Angel ) who - according to his own statement - is responsible for the balance between good and evil and therefore does not belong to either side. He has a direct line to the higher powers and has clairvoyant abilities. He brought Angel and Buffy together through his work in the mid-1990s. After that, he rarely appeared. In Buffy Season 8 , it turned out that it was Whistler who urged Angel to trust Twilight and let Twilight drive him to war against Buffy's Slayers. After Twilight was defeated and the seeds destroyed, Whistler was left powerless and without contact with the Higher Powers. His final vision predicted a terrible future for the earth, whereupon he made it his mission to save the world. Whistler does not notice that he is out of his mental balance and his plan takes on delusional features. He allies himself with the half demons Pearl and Nash, who also want to take revenge on Angel for the evolution he has prevented, as they call the change of the world to Twilight. They plan to unleash the magic over the world like a plague, regardless of the consequences. Angel and his friends foil their plan. Whistler understands the scope of his actions and sacrifices himself to stop the apocalypse. However, some people become infected by the magic he has unleashed and turn into magical beings.

Willow Rosenberg

Willow is Buffy's best friend, who she met after she moved to Sunnydale ( Buffy Season 1). Together with Xander and Giles they founded the "Scooby Gang". They always supported Buffy in the fight against evil. As the television series progressed, Willow discovered her passion for magic and became a powerful witch. At times she was drawn to the side of evil and even tried to destroy the world. With the help of Giles, she learned to use magic responsibly. Willow was an integral part of Buffy's Slayer Organization. She was in a relationship with the huntress Kennedy, but separated from her during the course of the 8th season. The demoness Saga Vasuki, with whom she had a secret love affair, continued to grow Willow's powers. In the volume “ Now comes Fray! "Season 8, it was learned that Willow would later find the opportunity to survive centuries and wreak havoc in future New York as Dark Willow . At the end of Season 8, Willow lost her power as a witch, which she resents Buffy very much. In season 9, Willow suffers a breakdown while visiting Angel as a result of her despair over the loss of her power and magic in the world. With the help of Buffy's scythe and Angel's son Connor, Willow manages to regain her power. At the end of the season, she and Buffy and her allies restore the magic of the world and help Dawn regain her fleshly form. Because of her powers, she is the first to notice that something is wrong in the new world. When she tries to find answers together with Buffy, the friends discover that Buffy's book Vampyr is now completely blank.

Xander Harris

Xander met Buffy at Sunnydale High and was in love with her for a long time. In the fifth season he got engaged to the ex-vengeance demon Anya after a long relationship, but left her standing at the altar in the sixth season. Anya died in the last episode of the seventh season fighting against primordial evil. That same season he lost sight of his left eye while fighting the psychopathic priest Caleb; since then he has been wearing an eye patch. In the comic sequel, Xander ran the Hunters' command center in Scotland with Buffy in season 8. Over the course of the season, he fell in love with Buffy's little sister Dawn, with whom he lives in the 9th season in a shared apartment in San Francisco. Xander finds it particularly difficult to get used to a normal life again after the world has been stripped of all supernatural influences. He can't forgive Buffy her complicity in Giles' death, which he hides from her and their mutual friends. At the end of season 9, he even betrays Buffy by providing Simone and Severin with important information to allow them access to the last enormous source of magic on earth. However, he does this in the belief that Severin will undo the events of the 8th season. After the apocalypse is averted and magic is restored to the world, Buffy forgives Xander for what he did.

Minor characters

Alasdair Coames

Alasdair was a powerful magician and a good friend of Rupert Giles. After the seeds were destroyed, he lost his power and henceforth collected the few remaining magical artifacts in the world. Angel and Faith seek advice on Mohra demons, the blood of which has invigorating properties, as Angel learned first-hand in the first season of Angel . They learn from Alasdair that this is not a suitable method of resuscitating Giles. He advises them completely against the attempt, but Angel is not deterred and over time wins Alasdair's support for his plan. Alasdair helps them find the last important artifact that makes the resurrection of Giles possible.

Anaheed

Anaheed was a Slayer in Buffy's Slayers Organization who remained a devoted supporter of Buffy even after the events of Season 8. In season 9, Anaheed secretly becomes her roommate to keep an eye on Buffy. When she accompanies Billy on a mission, the truth emerges.

Andrew Wells

Andrew was once one of Buffy's enemies with Warren and Jonathan. In the seventh season of Buffy , however, he was enthusiastic about Buffy's cause and became a member of the Scooby gang. He was the unofficial guard (the actual Guardian Council was murdered in the seventh season of Buffy on behalf of the Ur-Evil ) of the later renegade hunter Simone Doffler and in the eighth season headed the hunter squad in southern Italy. He tried in vain to put Simone down. In season 9, Andrew moves Buffy's ghost - without her knowledge - into the Buffy bot to protect her from an initially unknown danger. As it turns out, the danger comes from the still vengeful Simone. This kidnaps Buffy's human body and Andrew has to help Buffy and Spike get it back. Andrew later transfers Buffy's mind back into her body.

Billy

Billy is a teenager who becomes Buffy's ally. He was bullied as a homosexual and often assaulted in his hometown, which is why he began to practice self-defense. He lives alone with his grandmother Sky; his best friend is Katie. Billy and Devon, who is also homosexual, decide to take action against the beginning of the Zompir plague in his city. After they work together to save some civilians, including Billy's grandmother, from a horde of zompirs, the Scooby gang in San Francisco becomes aware of the boys. Buffy invites them both over to be professionally trained as vampire hunters. Billy is soon taken under her wing by Anaheed and together with her investigate Buffy's mysterious disappearance during a fight against Zompire when she was teleported from Illyria to Los Angeles.

Connor

Connor is the son of the vampires Angel and Darla, whose conception (although actually physically impossible) was possible due to a prophecy. His destiny was to destroy the demon Sahjhan, which he succeeded. As a baby, Connor was kidnapped by Angel's archenemy Daniel Holtz into the demon dimension of Quor'toth, into which Angel could not follow them, and raised to hate his father to the core. After he returned, Connor was manipulated by Holtz and his henchmen into bitterly chasing Angel. Due to his childhood, the upbringing by Holtz and the resulting identity conflicts, Connor suffered drastic psychological damage. To restore Connor's mental health and give him a chance at a normal life, Angel entered into a momentous deal with the demonic law firm Wolfram & Hart. Connor was endowed with an altered memory and from then on lived a normal teenage life with loving parents in a middle-class area of ​​Los Angeles. He later remembered his previous life and thanked his father for everything he had done for him. In the finale of the television series Angel , Connor saved Angel's life. In the comic book sequel Angel: After the fall of demon-overrun Los Angeles, Connor ran a safe haven for humans and good-natured demons, and fought among others. a. together with Illyria, Spike and Angel against Wolfram & Hart. He died in Angel's arms. After this reality was reversed by the higher powers, Connor continued to live in Los Angeles. In the 9th season he goes to college there and leads a happy life, from which Angel tries to stay out and Connor's attempts to contact him in London completely ignore. Through Willow, who asks Connor for help with her mission to Quor'toth, father and son meet again and finally speak out. In Quor'toth, the group finds out that Connor is worshiped as a master by a tribe of peace-loving demons. With Willow's help, Connor's followers can escape the hell dimension.

Detective Dowling

Robert Dowling is a homicide investigator with the San Francisco Police Department. His partner is Miranda Cheung. With her, Dowling investigates the strange murder cases at the beginning of the season, the victims of which turn out to be former vampires whose magic has been withdrawn by Severin. Buffy is initially suspected of being involved in the murders and is arrested by Dowling as a result. She flees and later proves her innocence, but Dowling develops an interest in demons and vampires and is introduced to their world at Spike's request. After Cheung dies as a result of a fight with Zompirs, Dowling is promoted to head of the newly formed special department for fighting vampires. To learn how to fight against and destroy Zompire, Dowling accompanies Buffy and Billy on their patrols and apparently develops feelings for Buffy. But there is no date, as Buffy disappears for a long time (kidnapped by Illyria) and Dowling ends up injured in the hospital as a result of a fight against Zompire. Buffy later informs him that she is not interested in a romantic relationship with him.

Drusilla

As a person, Drusilla was a young, pious girl who possessed clairvoyant abilities, which she and her environment perceived as a punishment from God. Angelus noticed her and decided to make her his own. Previously, he mentally tortured Drusilla by killing everyone she loved in order to break her, which later turned her into a highly dangerous, psychopathic vampire. Since Angelus is her creator, she sees him or Angel as her father and often calls him "Daddy". Together with her lover Spike, Angelus and Darla, Drusilla left a bloody trail in history until she showed up with Spike in Sunnydale in 1998 and became a direct enemy of Buffy. She killed the Slayer Kendra and helped Angelus bring about an apocalypse until she was incapacitated and removed from Sunnydale by Spike, who disliked the plan and secretly conspired with Buffy. After a few more appearances since her split from Spike, she reappears in the 9th season at Angel in London. Drusilla, whose sanity was restored by the Lorophage demon, has drastically changed her lifestyle. Recently, for example, she has refused to kill people and advocates peaceful coexistence with them. Drusilla keeps the demon Lorophage as a pet, who sucks out people's most painful memories (and often their entire mind) and they thank Drusilla by letting her bite them. Drusilla plans to use the Lorophage demon to save Angel from his torments, but he defends himself several times. Angel finally kills the demon, causing Drusilla to go insane again and to run away for the time being. Later she attacks Nadira's squad and kills the huntress Marianne.

kennedy

Kennedy is a former Slayer who was given her powers by Willow's spell at the end of Buffy Season 7 . Before that, she had already been trained by the Guardian Council to be a hunter. She comes from a well-off New York family. By the end of Season 8, Kennedy was in a lesbian relationship with Willow. Willow always tried to keep Kennedy out of Buffy's organization because she was afraid for her safety. After the two separated, Kennedy turned away from her calling as a hunter. She founded the bodyguard company Deepscan , which provides like-minded former hunters as highly paid bodyguards to rich customers. Buffy applies for a job at Kennedy in Season 9 and is tested by her. Although Buffy fails the test, Kennedy gives her a chance with a new client. The Slayers clash when Buffy, contrary to Kennedy's instructions, continues to hunt. Although she masters her job with Buffy to protect the businessman Theo Daniels and offers her a permanent job, Buffy declines with thanks. At the end of the season, Faith announces she wants to join Kennedy's company.

Lavinia and Sophronia Fairweather

Lavinia and Sophie are Giles' vain great aunts who, as powerful witches, were able to maintain their youthfulness through magic and dealing with demons. After the banishment of magic from the world, their creditors claim their debts from the sisters. Hoping for Angel's help, they appear in Season 9 at Giles' former estate. While Lavinia advocates Angel's plan to revive Giles, Sophie is not at all enthusiastic about it. However, the sisters have a magical artifact that Giles came into contact with as a child and, according to the sisters, something of his childlike innocence stuck to it, and which has proven to be essential for the implementation of the project. In Giles' resuscitation, the object and Lavinia and Sophie's memories of their nephews have a corresponding effect and Giles finds himself (much to his displeasure) in the body of his 12-year-old self. The sisters support Faith and Angel in the fight against Whistler, Pearl and Nash, and afterwards take care of the infected civilians.

Nadira

Nadira is one of Buffy's former Slayers, all of whom but herself were killed by Twilight's supporters Pearl and Nash. Nadira then swore to take revenge on Angel and the demonic siblings for their murdered friends. With her new slayer squad, Nadira lives in the 9th season in London and occasionally meets with Faith, who advises them on various aspects of the slayer existence, without knowing that she is living with Angel. Due to her previous history, Nadira accumulates a lot of resentment and anger, which negatively affects her personality, which is expressed, for example, in frequent bar fights with civilians. In a conversation, Willow succeeds in comforting Nadira and thereby making her more positive. After Nadira learns of Faith's collaboration with Angel, she feels betrayed by her and turns away from her together with her cadre. However, she is later forced to work with Angel and Faith in the face of the threat posed by the demon Eyghon, even though she continues to seek revenge on Angel. Eventually she is dissuaded from her plan and supports Faith and Angel in the final battle of the season against Pearl, Nash and Whistler. Nadira is seriously injured and initially thought to be dead. But you manage to defeat Nash together with Faith and survive the fight. However, she then undergoes unclear physical changes that are attributed to her healing by the magic of Whistler's energy ball.

George Patrick Lehane

George Patrick "Pat" Lehane is Faith's father, who was never there for his daughter due to his alcohol addiction. He also spent a long time in prison for murder. He appears in London in season 9 and pretends to have changed. Faith gives him another chance. It turns out that Pat is threatened by a gang of men to whom he owes a lot of money. He therefore asks Faith to kill the men for him, since she is able to do so as a hunter. Faith and Angel put the gang on the run. In the argument, it becomes clear how little Pat values ​​his daughter and how much he denies her the ability to make something good out of herself and her life. His derogatory statements seriously injure Faith and infuriate Angel. Angel throws Patrick out of the apartment and threatens to forbid him to molest Faith again.

Web links

• Buffy and Angel on the website of the German publisher Panini
• Buffy and Angel on the website of the US publisher Dark Horse
• Short review at the beginning of season 9 on Ein Comic Leben (German)
• Review of the season finale 9 at comicbookresources (engl.)
• Resume of the 9th season at HERO COMPLEX (engl.)
• Summaries of the individual issues of the 9th season at WhedonComics (engl.)
• Analysis of the differences between TV series and comic continuation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Trailer for Season 9 of the comic sequel. In: Serienjunkies.de . Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 1st edition Angel & Faith in Darkhorse-Verlag . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
3. ↑ 1st edition Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 by Darkhorse-Verlag . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
4. ^ 1. Collector's booklet Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 9 in Panini-Verlag . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
5. ^ 1. Collector's booklet Angel & Faith published by Panini-Verlag . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
6. ↑ 1st edition of the miniseries Willow: Wonderland by Darkhorse-Verlag . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
7. ↑ 1st edition of the miniseries Spike: A Dark Place published by Darkhorse . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
8. ^ German edition of the miniseries Willow: Wonderland in Panini-Verlag . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
9. ↑ 1st edition Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 by Darkhorse-Verlag . Retrieved September 7, 2015.
10. ↑ 1st edition Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11 in the Panini publishing house . Retrieved January 5, 2018.
11. ↑ Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 12: The Reckoning. Retrieved May 1, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1: School is Hell. Retrieved May 1, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Interview with Andrew Chambliss and Christos Gage - www.comicbookresources.com . Retrieved September 4, 2015.
14. ↑ Interview with Andrew Chambliss at Buffyfest . Retrieved September 4, 2015.
15. ↑ Interview with Rebekah Isaacs at Emertainment Monthly ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 4, 2015.  
16. ↑ Review of the 1st edition of the 9th season on WhatCulture ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 4, 2015.