Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Slayer, Interrupted
Buffy Classics
Comics & Graphic Novels
Dark Horse Comics
Paperback
85
Buffy Summers has burned down the school gym, run off to Vegas, and filled her diary with tales of vampires and demons—her parents see no other choice than to have her committed to a mental institution. During her stay, Buffy finds that she likes not having to slay vampires and demons night after night. But there's something sinister going on here, as some of the doctors may not be what they appear. Meanwhile, in England, Rupert Giles's use of black magic has stopped a corrupt Watcher from destroying the Council.
This digital publication was originally published as Buffy the Vampire Slayer #56-#59, in April to July 2003. It is collected in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 1.
WrensReads Review:
Do you remember that episode where Buffy woke up in an asylum and her mother and father were together and they told her that she had to kill everyone in her other, fake life in order to get all better and go home with them?
And we never know which one is actually the real life and they never touch on it again because Joss Whedon hates all of us and is cackling evilly as we die from anxiety?
This one made me feel better.
The comic-Buffy actually has been to an asylum because Dawn read her diary and saw what Buffy thought she was (The Vampire Slayer) and her parents (who are still together) put her in there because they believe that she has lost it.
You see Willow for the first time! And Cordelia! But they don’t talk or anything.
You see more of what Giles has to go through as well in order to become The Slayer’s Watcher.
There’s like a little snippet of Angel too.
I loved this issue so much. You get to see into comic-Buffy more and how she didn’t ask to be The Slayer and how she deals with it. This issue feels more like the show than any of the ones that I have read so far.
It’s my favorite and I’m going to go read it again.
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