Steve's Buffyverse Timeline

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Comics Continuum has posted the solicitation info for Dark Horse’s July books, which includes Buffy: Season 8 #26 scheduled to arrive on the 1st of the month. Here’s the description: Team Buffy has become all about sneaky in a world where Slayers are now feared and hated, and vampires would rank at the top of [...]

The “Look Inside!” feature for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus, Volume 7 is now up at Amazon. The table of contents confirms the following stories, in this apparent chronological order: Buffy #39 : Night of a Thousand Vampires Buffy #40-42 : Ugly Little Monsters Chaos Bleeds Lost & Found Spike in Rock n Roll All [...]

If you’re looking for a convenient list of upcoming Buffyverse titles, then be sure to check out the newest feature added to the site: the Shipping Schedule. For each entry it shows cover art and a few key details, as well as a link to further info. The page also displays recently released items, from [...]

Dark Horse has posted solicitation info for June 2009 comics on their site. The ongoing Buffy: Season 8 title takes a break for the month, and in its place we get a new incarnation of Tales of the Vampires. Summary and cover art for this one-shot, which is due on June 3rd, are below. In [...]

I’ve now added IDW’s second Angel miniseries, Old Friends, to the Timeline. This five-issue series was released in late ’05/early ’06 and is set at an unspecified time after Season 5.

The latest entry added to the Timeline is for IDW’s upcoming series, Angel: Blood and Trenches. The first issue of this mini-series is scheduled to arrive later this month.

I’ve added an entry for Angel: Masks, a one-shot from IDW that came out just before Halloween ’06. The issue contains four short stories, and here’s where I’ve slotted them on the Timeline: Mystery Date: takes place right after the Season 5 episode Smile Time, while our hero is still Puppet Angel. Unacceptable Losses: later [...]

As you might have noticed from my previous post, I have added a timeline entry for IDW’s three-part adaptation of Smile Time.

I’ve now added IDW’s first Angel title, Angel: The Curse, to the timeline. I realized I had missed Dark Horse’s Tales of the Vampires earlier, so those short stories have also been added. The link will take you to the entry for the trade paperback collection, and from there you can link to details for [...]