OOH YAY! I am so excited! I like the words the popular W/T oneshot, maybe they'll make more. This rocks much. She was telling Terry Moore yesterday about this comic.
Here's the rest of the info on Tales of the Slayer from darkhorse
You've heard rumblings about this; now I can give you all the details. November 28, Dark Horse will release Tales of the Slayer, an original trade paperback featuring stories of Slayers through the ages, all by writers (and one star!) from the show, and drawn by some of comics' finest talents.
The cover, pictured here, is by Tim Sale, the artist behind such recent masterpieces as Batman: The Long Halloween, Superman for All Seasons, and the current hit, Daredevil: Yellow. This cover was the result of meetings between Joss and Tim. As usual, Joss had a very specific idea of what he wanted, and Tim knocked it out of the park. Tim and Joss will also collaborate on the second story in the book, featuring a medieval Slayer in a very sunless world. The first story in the book is also written by Joss, and it features the Primitive, seen previously on the TV series, and soon to make a cameo in Fray. This story is drawn by Leinil Francis Yu, Marvel wunderkind, one of the most exciting young superhero artists. He's finishing up an exclusive contract with Marvel, and his first new work away from them is also his first work for our company.
Jane Espenson marks her return to comics, joining one of the greatest storytellers in the industry: P. Craig Russell, artist of Dark Horse's Ring of the Nibelung series. Jane's beautiful story is artfully told by a real master of the comics form, whose work in the last twenty-five years has shown comics to be capable of all the subtlety and grace of any other medium.
Amber ("Tara") Benson, fresh off the popular Willow and Tara oneshot, strikes out on her own with a tale from the French Revolution. This Slayer tale is drawn by Ted Naifeh, the distinctive young artist of Gloom Cookie from Slave Labor Graphics and this summer's Nocturnals from Oni Press.
David Fury, whose previous comics work is limited to one brief and hard-to-find collaboration with Ryan Sook in a TV Guide promo, gives us one of the longer stories in the book, featuring a Slayer from the Old West. David teams with Steve Lieber, artist of the much-lauded and award-winning Whiteout series from Oni. Steve was Joss's first choice for this one, and David and Steve have come up with a unique look for this spaghetti-western-styled tale.
Rebecca Rand Kirshner, whose previous comics work is far from mainstream, having contributed to the Harvard Lampoon during her days there as a student. With her alternative-comix background, she wanted a REALLY different look to her story. So we've hired Mira Friedmann, Israeli cartoonist from the Actus Tragicus group (see the Top Shelf website), who's bringing a truly unique vision to this book.
Doug Petrie was the first of the Buffy TV writers to do comics with me, and so I teamed him with an artist of respectable vintage: Gene Colan, who's worked for every company around, including the great EC Comics of the1950s, is drawing a story that was tailor made for him. In the 1970s, Gene worked on a little book called Tomb of Dracula, in which he created a vampire slayer named Blade. So Gene's returning to the '70s in New York, and an African American vampire Slayer. And Doug's revisiting familiar territory too: He's telling the story of Nikki, the Slayer he wrote about last season. The one Spike killed, and from whom he took his famous black leather. This is a real tour de force, some of the finest work from Gene's long and distinguished career. That sounds like hyperbole, but wait till you see it. Gene's on the money here. He was the first artist to commit to the project; Doug told me the story he wanted to do, and I told him, You know who'd be perfect? I knew Doug was a fan, since the scripts to his Ring of Fire graphic novel featured references to Gene's work. Gene, who'd previously worked with me on a Curse of Dracula series a few years ago, accepted, and was glad he did, later saying that there was something magical about the script, that once he read it he knew exactly how he should draw it. Expect to see these two teaming up again before long.
And the book is wrapped up by a final story from Joss, joined by the whole Fray team, as the future Slayer looks back over her heritage. So if you feel like diving into three new stories from Joss and contributions by the people he works with daily--plus a fantastic team of illustrators--look for this book in November. Or ask for it for Chrismas. It's 96 pages of beautifully drawn and colored adventure, done exactly the way Buffy fans like to see it. And I don't mean an imitation. This is the real thing.
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Just another one of Amber's Girls.
Willow:
Where would you go? If you felt lost
and alone? Where would you go?
Tara:
(a beat)
To you.