Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8

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Buffy and Dawn Summers, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Rupert Giles, Anya, Andrew, Spike, Angel and who knows who else all begin returning to us Wednesday, when the new “season eight” Buffy comic, written by Joss Whedon and a lot of the other old series writers - including Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard, Doug Petrie, Drew Greenberg and Steven DeKnight - finally hits the comic shops.

We’ll only get 12 Dark Horse Comics episodes a year (instead of the 22 we got via The WB and UPN), but it is garaunteed to run for 30 issues. The first issue (entitled "The Long Way Home"), will be released sometime this month.


FIRST ISSUE HINTS:

*We learn via Buffy’s opening “voiceover” that about 1,800 young women have been transformed into slayers.

* The season begins with a Buffy-led assault on a church, which in turn gives Slayer Central a mystery to solve.

* The Initiative, or something like it, is seen on the edge of Sunnydale Crater. Something happens there.

* The issue ends with the return of a character we met in one of the earliest of the first-season episodes.