Pale Reflections (Buffy comic)

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Pale Reflections


Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Format Soft cover, 88 pages, Full color
Publication dates Nov 08, 2000
Number of issues BtVS #17-19 and DHP #150
Creative team
Writer(s) Andi Watson
Penciller(s) Cliff Richards
Inker(s) Joe Pimentel
Colourist(s) Guy Major

Pale Reflections is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.

Contents

[edit] Story description

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details about some or all of the Buffyverse productions (Buffy, Angel, Fray, etc.) follow.

[edit] General Synopsis

This is the conclusion of the 'Bad Blood' storyline! Selke gets closer and closer to destroying the Slayer. Buffy must literally face her dark side.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #17

Comic title: "She's No Lady, part 1 (Bad Blood, part 7)"
Puzzlingly, it appears that Buffy and Xander kiss. Sunnydale must try to comprehend such an event and its connection with the super vampires. Meanwhile Selke walks the sewers of the town.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #18

Comic title: "She's No Lady, part 2 (Bad Blood, part 8)"
Mardi Gras is approaching. Strangely, Buffy seems to be becoming obsessive about her looks, and her friends investigate. Meanwhile, as Angel is trying to discover the origins of Sunnydale's new super vampires, his life maybe in danger.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #19

Comic title: "Old Friend (Bad Blood, part 9)"
Buffy and the gang have now been trying to eradicate the super-powered vampires and slayer copies for months. Selke finally comes out of her hiding place, but Buffy's not as fast as she should be.

[edit] Trivia

  • Characters include: Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles. Also Cordelia, Oz, Angel.

[edit] Continuity

[edit] Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon
Buffy 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 1999 - Spring 1999
(non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Uninvited Guests
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy comic: The Final Cut
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Bad Blood
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.11 Gingerbread
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy comic: Bad Dog (by Doug Petrie)
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Crash Test Demons
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Pale Reflections
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.12 Helpless
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.13 The Zeppo
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy book: The Deathless
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.14 Bad Girls
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.15 Consequences
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.16 Doppelgängland
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy book: Doomsday Deck
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy book: Immortal
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.17 Enemies
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Angel: The Hollower
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Prime Evil
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Revenant
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.18 Earshot
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.19 Choices
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Power of Persuasion
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.20 The Prom
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Resurrecting Ravana
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy books: The Gatekeeper [Trilogy]
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Return to Chaos
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Visitors
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Unnatural Selection
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Obsidian Fate
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Deep Water
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Here Be Monsters
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: The Book of Fours
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.21 Graduation Day, Part One
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.22 Graduation Day, Part Two
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Sunnydale High Yearbook
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy comic: Double Cross

[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 | Buffy season eight

Buffyverse & related topics
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Key Terminology "Demon""Slayer""Vampire""Watcher""Werewolf""Witch"

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