Past Lives (Buffy/Angel comic)

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Past Lives


Cover of the trade.

Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Format Soft cover, 96 pages, Full color
Publication dates Nov 21, 2001
Number of issues BtVS #29-30 and Angel #15-16
Creative team
Writer(s) Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski
Penciller(s) Christian Zanier, Cliff Richards
Inker(s) Joe Pimentel, Digital Jump
Colourist(s) Lee Loughridge

Past Lives is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy television series.

Contents

[edit] Story description

[edit] General overall Synopsis

A huntress is tracking demons in L.A. This would normally seem to be a good thing, except leaving survivors to tell Angel that she sent them. Angel has a huge horde of demons trying to track him for revenge. His human friends, Cordelia and Wesley will soon no longer be safe, unless Angel can do something. At the same time monsters are leaving L.A. and trying to find refuge at Sunnydale. Buffy, Giles, and the others learn about recent chaos, and Buffy believes she should go to help Angel in L.A. Riley is unpleased with such developments.

[edit] Angel #15

Comic title: Past Lives, part 1
A huntress is tracking demons in L.A. This would normally seem to be a good thing, except leaving survivors to tell Angel that she sent them. Angel has a huge horde of demons trying to track him for revenge. His human friends, Cordelia and Wesley will soon no longer be safe, unless Angel can do something.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #29

Comic title: Past Lives, part 2
Cordelia and Wesley are in hospital whilst Angel is on the run. A mysterious demon hunter continues her actions against Angel. Demons are leaving carnage across L.A. and some are seeking refuge in Sunnydale, leaving L.A. and trying to find refuge at Sunnydale. Buffy, Giles, and the others learn about recent chaos, and Buffy believes she should go to help Angel in L.A. Riley is unpleased with such developments.

[edit] Angel #16

Comic title: Past Lives, part 3
Angel confronts the mysterious demon hunter who's out to get him, but he barely escapes alive. Meanwhile, Buffy and Giles begin to find out who and what is behind the recent activity against Angel. The key players begin to gather in LA (including some people from Sunnydale), the stage is setting for a confrontation.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #30

Comic title: Past Lives, part 4
Giles and Angel reveal their involvement with the demon-hunter in the past. Buffy and her friends try to stop her.

[edit] Trivia

  • The only overt Buffy-Angel crossover graphic novel.
  • Characters include: Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Buffy, Giles, Xander, Anya
  • A bust of the Dark Horse character Hellboy appears in Giles' office. This is one of two cameos he has in the series. The other being in City of Dispair.
  • When there's one of the flashbacks of Landry in the metal house in about 1853, the employee talks about "Dr Steward" - Dr Steward was a character from Bram Stoker's Dracula which was based around the same time period. Dr Steward also operated a mental insitution, much like the one in this comic.

[edit] Continuity

Two Watchers, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, and Rupert Giles. Comic panel from Past Lives
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Two Watchers, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, and Rupert Giles. Comic panel from Past Lives
  • Supposed to be set in Buffy Season 4, after Superstar

[edit] Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon
Buffy/Angel comics such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy merchandise.

[edit] Timing

  • Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
Location, time
(if known)
Buffyverse chronology: January 2000 - Spring 2000
(non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.12 A New Man
L.A., 2000 A1.12 Expecting
L.A., 2000 Angel graphic novel: Hunting Ground
L.A., 2000 Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows/Love for sale
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.13 The I in Team
L.A., 2000 A1.13 She
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.14 Goodbye Iowa
Sunnydale, 2000 Buffy video game: Wrath of the Darkhul King
L.A., 2000 A1.14 I've Got You Under My Skin
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.15 This Year's Girl
L.A., 2000 A1.15 The Prodigal
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.16 Who Are You
L.A., 2000 A1.16 The Ring
Sunnydale, 2000 Buffy comic: Giles
Sunnydale, 2000 Buffy comic: Jonathan (by Jane Espenson)
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.17 Superstar
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 Buffy/Angel graphic novel: Past Lives
Sunnydale, 2000 Buffy graphic novel: Out of the Woodwork
Sunnydale, 2000 Buffy book: These Our Actors
L.A., 2000 A1.17 Eternity
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.18 Where the Wild Things Are
L.A., 2000 A1.18 Five By Five
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.19 New Moon Rising
L.A., 2000 A1.19 Sanctuary
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.20 The Yoko Factor
L.A., 2000 A1.20 War Zone
Sunnydale, 2000 B4.21 Primeval
L.A., 2000 A1.21 Blind Date
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 B4.22 Restless
L.A., 2000 A1.22 To Shanshu in L.A.
L.A., 2000 Angel comic: Cordelia special
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 Buffy/Angel books: Unseen [Trilogy]

[edit] See also

Buffy comics


Buffy comics in order of Buffyverse chronology

All's Fair | The Origin | Viva Las Buffy | Slayer Interrupted | A Stake to the Heart | The Queen of Hearts | Dust Waltz | Ring of Fire | Paint the Town Red | Play With Fire | Remaining Sunlight | Uninvited Guests | The Final Cut | Bad Blood | Crash Test Demons | Pale Reflections | Angel: The Hollower | Double Cross | Blood of Carthage | Oz | Giles | Jonathan | Past Lives | Out of the Woodwork | Haunted | False Memories | Willow & Tara: Wannablessedbe | Autumnal | Ugly Little Monsters | 'Chaos Bleeds' comic prequel | Lost & Found | Death of Buffy | Reunion | Wilderness | Note from the Underground | Creatures of Habit | Withdrawal

Angel comics


Comics in order of Buffyverse chronology

Doyle: Spotlight | Surrogates | Earthly Possessions | The Changeling Wife | Hunting Ground | Love for sale | Past Lives | Cordelia special | Autumnal | Long Night's Journey | Spike: Old Times | Spike: Old Wounds | Spike: Lost and Found | Gunn: Spotlight | Wesley: Spotlight | Illyria: Spotlight | Connor: Spotlight | Spike: Asylum | The Curse | Old Friends

Comics with unknown/varying chronology

Spike vs Dracula #1-5 | Masks | Auld Lang Syne

Buffyverse & related topics
Main Canon | Index

Chronology: Ancient | Modern | BS1 | BS2 | BS3 | BS4/AS1 | BS5/AS2 | BS6/AS3 | BS7/AS4 | AS5 | Future | Flashbacks | Scourge of Europe's activites

Buffy Characters (main) | Characters (minor) | Episodes | Plot | Quotes

Comics | DVDs | Film | Novels | Pilot (unaired)

Angel Characters (main) | Characters (minor) | Episodes | Plot | Quotes

Comics | Corrupt (unaired) | DVDs | Novels | Pitch tape

Expanded Uni. Comics | Fray | Novels | Slayer timeline | Tales of Slayer (prose) | Tales of Slayers | Tales of Vampires | Video Games

New: Auld Lang Syne | Asylum | Bad Bargain | Blackout | Deathless | Go Ask Malice | Masks | Portal Through Time | Spike vs Dracula

Auxiliary Academia | Cast & crew | Fan made productions | Rare promos | Unofficial parodies | Undeveloped productions

Buffy Animated | Card Game | Guidebooks | Magazines | RPGs | Spike movie | Toys

Powers Angel Investigations | Circle of the Black Thorn | Order of Aurelius | The First Evil | The Initiative | Monsters | Old Ones | The Powers That Be | Ra-Tet | Scooby Gang | Scourge of Europe | Senior Partners | Watchers' Council | Wolfram & Hart
People Adam | Amy | Andrew | Angel | Anya | Buffy | Caleb | Connor | Cordelia | Dawn | Darla | Doyle | Drusilla | Eve | Faith | Fred | Giles | Glory | Gunn | Harmony | Holtz | Illyria | Jasmine | Jenny | Joyce | Jonathan | Kate | Kennedy | Lilah | Lindsey | Lorne | Master | Mayor | Oz | Robin Wood | Prof. Walsh | Riley | Spike | Tara | Warren | Wesley | Willow | Xander
Places L.A. | Sunnydale
Bronze | Buffy's residence | Caritas | Hellmouth | Hyperion | Library | Magic Box | Pylea | Sunnydale High
Music Complete Tracklist | Use of Music in Buffy & Angel

Buffy album | Dingoes Ate My Baby | Film | Radio Sunnydale | Live Fast, Die Never | Once More, with Feeling

Key Terminology "Demon" | "Slayer" | "Vampire" | "Watcher" | "Werewolf" | "Witch"

"Child of Senior Partners" | Shanshu | Sunnydale Syndrome | Tro-Clon