Spike & Dru (Buffy comic)

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Spike & Dru

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Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Format 96 pages, soft cover, full color
Publication date August 7, 2001
Number of issues BtVS: Spike & Dr: 'All's Fair', The Queen..'
Creative team
Writer(s) James Marsters, Christopher Golden
Artist(s) Keith Barnett
Penciller(s) Eric Powell
Inker(s) Drew Geraci
Colorist(s) Guy Major

Spike & Dru is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy television series. Not to be confused with the novel: Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row. The book contains four stories, all starring the characters Spike and Drusilla.

Contents

[edit] Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon

Buffy comics are not usually considered to be canonical. However, 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 official Buffy merchandise.

[edit] All's Fair

Story description: In 1933, Spike and Dru are at the World's Fair. However, some very vengeful and deadly vampire hunters want vengeance against Spike for killing their relative Xin Rong.
Continuity: Set in 1933, with flashbacks to 1900.

[edit] The Queen of Hearts

Story description: Spike and Dru are travelling to Sunnydale, but first stop off at St. Louis to try some riverboat gambling. The detour ends up less relaxing than they might have hoped.
Continuity: Set before Buffy Season 2 episode School Hard.

[edit] Paint the Town Red

Story description: Spike is irritated by Drusilla's passion for Angelus. Their relationship comes to a heated end and Spike goes to Turkey for a break. Dru hunts him down with someone new, a necromancer. She wants to even the scores but soon makes trouble for everyone.
Continuity: Set after Buffy Season 2 episode Becoming II.
Trivia: This is the story co-authored by James Marsters, the actor who played Spike on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television show.

[edit] Who Made Who

Story description: Spike and Dru are a newly made up couple in Brazil. Yet Dru's attention once again drifts away and Spike spoils some partying.
Continuity: Set in Buffy Season 3, after the episode "Lovers Walk".
Trivia: This is a ten page short story. It originally appeared in the comic one shot "Lovers Walk".

[edit] Continuity

  • Stories that take place around the same time as the first two stories in the trade paperback:
Location, time
(if known)
Buffyverse chronology: Fall 1997 - Spring 1998
(non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, fall 1997 B2.01 When She Was Bad
Sunnydale, 1997 Tales of the Slayers: Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1997
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.02 Some Assembly Required
Sunnydale, 1997 Tales of the Vampires: The Problem with Vampires
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy graphic novel: Spike & Dru: The Queen of Hearts
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.03 School Hard
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.04 Inca Mummy Girl
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.05 Reptile Boy
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy graphic novel: Dust Waltz
Sunnydale, October 1997 B2.06 Halloween
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.07 Lie to Me
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy book: Keep Me In Mind
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy book: The Suicide King
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy book: Colony
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy book: Night Terrors
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.08 The Dark Age
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.09 What's My Line, Part One
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.10 What's My Line, Part Two
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy book: After Image
Sunnydale, 1997 Buffy book: Carnival of Souls
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.11 Ted
Sunnydale, 1997 B2.12 Bad Eggs
Boston, December 1997 - June 1998 Buffy book: Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary
Sunnydale, 1997/8 Buffy book: Blooded
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.13 Surprise
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.14 Innocence
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.15 Phases
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.16 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.17 Passion
Sunnydale, 1998 Buffy graphic novel: Ring of Fire
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.18 Killed by Death
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.19 I Only Have Eyes for You
Sunnydale, 1998 B2.20 Go Fish
Sunnydale, spring 1998 B2.21 Becoming, Part One
Sunnydale, spring 1998 B2.22 Becoming, Part Two
Sunnydale, spring 1998 Buffy graphic novel: Spike & Dru: Paint the Town Red

[edit] See also

[edit] Spike comics

[edit] Spike novels

[edit] External links