Crash Test Demons (Buffy comic)

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Crash Test Demons

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Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Format Full color, Soft Cover, 80 pages.
Publication date Jul 12, 2000
Number of issues Buffy the Vampire Slayer #13-15
Creative team
Writer(s) Andi Watson
Penciller(s) Cliff Richards
Inker(s) Joe Pimentel
Colorist(s) Guy Major

Crash Test Demons is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.

Contents

[edit] Story description

[edit] General synopsis

Sunnydale is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to dust the undead. Buffy must once again face her old enemy Selke. Selke has returned with 'bad blood', a supernatural ingredient that may massively increase her powers.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #13

Comic title: "'Delia's Gone (Bad Blood, part 4)"
Cordelia Chase has always been proud of her beauty, popularity, and perfect fashion sense, and considers such qualities as natural to her. However, an unknown beauty is beginning to challenge Cordelia's spotlight from the men of Sunnydale. Cordelia hopes that an upcoming quiz-show contest can put her back in the spotlight.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #14

Comic title: "Love Sick Blues (Bad Blood, part 5)"
Sunnydale is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to dust the undead. Buffy begins to suspect something is wrong. Spike and Dru, having just returned to Sunnydale, are not happy to find Selke set up as the local 'big bad'. Meanwhile, Buffy starts to question her relationship with Angel. Also Selke and her Doctor have plans for an ancient Slayer relic.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer #15

Comic title: "Lost Highway (Bad Blood, part 6)"
Whilst Buffy is doing her best to try to obtain her Driver's License, Selke and the Doctor are planning disaster for the town. Meanwhile it seems the super-vampires that have been plaguing the town have not yet gone. Buffy does her best to balance driving and slaying.

[edit] Trivia

  • Characters include: Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles. Also Cordelia, Oz, Spike, Drusilla, 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 Doppelgangland
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