>I became a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan well after the series was over. I discovered it through my fiancee, who would watch episodes on HULU while she worked on her knitting projects. There was a finite number of episodes posted, so I broke down and found the box set for the complete series cheap on Ebay after getting hooked. I was aware of the comic series, but couldn’t start on it until I had finished watching the TV series, so my fiancee and I powered through all seven seasons in about 2 months, then I dove into the season eight comic series.

I’ve enjoyed how what was established in the TV series has been given a comic book treatment without losing the vibe it had when Buffy was a small screen series. Through the comic series, the Buffy-verse has expanded allowing for one-shot issues like BTVS: Tales of the Vampires. It’s a great Buffy comic that doesn’t have Buffy and the Scooby gang in it. The story deals with a bored, video game arcade dwelling high schooler in a small town who gets off on being bitten by vampires, but soon finds himself changing once he himself becomes a blood sucker.

The great thing about this story is that it follows the recent story in the series where Harmony makes Vampires mainstream through using the media, so the public at large is aware of the vampires walking amongst them at night, but now it’s not that big a deal, despite the fact that most vamps are still very dangerous.

-Jim

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