Play With Fire (Buffy comic)

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Play With Fire

Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Format Soft cover, full color, 64 pages
Publication date November 2003
Number of issues Short from TV Guide, Wizard 1/2: BtVS special and Dark Horse Extra
Creative team
Writer(s) Christopher Golden
Artist(s) Cliff Richards, Hector Gomez

Play With Fire is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy television series.

Contents

[edit] Story description

[edit] General Synopsis

A fight involving Xander at school is broken up by a huge scorpion. A new range of dolls turn out to be demonic. And Oz turns from cuteness to raving wolf. These are just some of the mini-stories found in this collection, which includes:

[edit] Dark Horse/Wizard #1/2 special

This story focuses on Xander. He is pushed around at School, Xander stands up to the challenge and later literally faces his demon.

[edit] Trivia

  • Collected together a number of rarer Buffy comic stories.
  • The Dark Horse/Wizard #1/2 special limited edition comic book was presented by Dark Horse Comics and Wizard Magazine and came with a certificate of authenticity.

[edit] Continuity

  • Supposed to be set in early Buffy Season 3.

[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: Fall 1998 - Christmas 1998
(non-canon = italic)
L.A./Sunnydale, 1998 B3.01 Anne
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.02 Dead Man's Party
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.03 Faith, Hope & Trick
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.04 Beauty and the Beasts
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.05 Homecoming
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.06 Band Candy
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy book: Sins of the Father
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy graphic novel: Play With Fire
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.07 Revelations
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy book: Child of the Hunt
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy video game: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Xbox)
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.08 Lovers Walk
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy graphic novel: Spike & Dru: Who Made Who
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy graphic novel: Remaining Sunlight
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy book: Ghoul Trouble
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy book: Paleo
Sunnydale, 1998 B3.09 The Wish
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy book: The Evil That Men Do
Sunnydale, Christmas, 1998 B3.10 Amends
Sunnydale, Christmas, 1998 Tales of the Vampires: Numb, (During Amends)
Sunnydale, Christmas, 1998 Christmas Buffy promo, (After Amends)