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Penciller: Cliff Richards, Chynna Clugston-Major, Paul Lee, Brian Horton
Inker: Joe Pimentel
Letterer: Amador Cisneros, Dragon Monkey
Colorist: Guy Major
Comics: Buffy the vampire Slayer #21-25
Published: Dark Horse Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book publisher, one of the largest independent publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics. ...
Date first published: Apr 04, 2001
Substance: Soft cover, 128 pages, Full color
Story description
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
General Synopsis Buffy's joinging college but wonders whether education is neccessary for a slayer. Trying to deal with such issues she overly involves herself with slaying with catastrophic results. When Sunnydale's version of Bigfoot is slayed it may call the rising of a demon named Ky-Laag, and potentially the end of the world. A mysterious group, the Blood of Carthage, hope to stop it yet also try to kill Buffy for starting it all. What's a gal to do? This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ...
Buffy the vampire Slayer #21
- Comic title: The Blood of Carthage, part 1
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- When the Scooby Gang hear of a new "boogeyman" legend, they track down a beast that seems to need slaying yet doing so turns out to be more trouble than it's worth.
Buffy the vampire Slayer #22
- Comic title: The Blood of Carthage, part 2
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- Demons are gathering, as the group of undead grow in Sunnydale. Buffy and friends hope to discover why and then stop such events. Buffy also gets closer to working out the secrets of Vraka, Xerxes the Blind, and the remainder of the demon hordes. Yet she also has a term paper to do!
Buffy the vampire Slayer #23
- Comic title: The Blood of Carthage, part 3
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- Buffy confronts the Blood of Carthage to find out who they are and what connection they have to the demon Vraka. Spike also seems to have a connection with the group. At the same time Buffy is considering leaving college.
Buffy the vampire Slayer #24
- Comic title: The Blood of Carthage, part 4
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- Since the rise of the demon Ky-Laag is imminent, Buffy and her friends work with the Blood of Carthage, a cult of demons, in ordre to stop Ky-Laag from destroying Sunnydale and perhaps the world! However Buffy must discover why the Blood of Carthage want to stop a demon from rising, and why Spike is playing peacemaker between Buffy and Vraka.
Buffy the vampire Slayer #25
- Comic title: The Blood of Carthage, part 5
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- Buffy learns of the history between the demons Vraka and Ky-Laag, and what it might mean for her friends. Buffy deals with the consequences of of allying with the deomon, Vraka, an explosive fight endsues at the center of Sunnydale.
Continuity - Supposed to be set early Buffy Season 4, whilst Buffy is still relatively new to College.
- Also features flashbacks to the past friendship of Willow and Xander in 1987, 1989, and 1991.
 A clip from Sunnydale 1987 featuring Willow and Xander
Canonical issues - Main article: Buffyverse canon
- Buffy comics, such as this one are not usually consdered by fans as canon. Rather than being 'canon', some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors' and artists', whilst other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fanfic, 'overviews' summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy merchandise.
// Introduction Main article: Canon (fiction) Canon of a fictional universe comprises those stories, considered to be genuine (or official), and those events, characters, settings, etc. ...
// Introduction These were published by Dark Horse, originally in comic format but then gathered into volumes of trade paperbacks. ...
// Introduction Main article: Canon (fiction) Canon of a fictional universe comprises those stories, considered to be genuine (or official), and those events, characters, settings, etc. ...
Trivia - The Blood of Carthage, part 5 was olriginally published with extra pages than the usual 32 pages, and also features a wrap around cover by Jeff Matsuda (click on comic cover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #25 to see larger image).
- The mini-flashbacks to Willow and Xander's childhood friendship are drawn by another artist than the main one.
- Lucy Hanover appears in this story.
Various vampire slayers have appeared and have been mentioned in the Buffyverse, in short pieces. ...
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