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Buffy The Vampire Slayer

A Stake To The Heart - Details of new Buffy graphic novel

Sunday 9 May 2004, by Webmaster

Ever wondered what Buffy Summers got up to before her adventures in the TV series? Wonder no more, for in June a new graphic novel fills in the gap.

In A Stake to the Heart Buffy’s life continues to implode. Her parents, mired in a loveless marriage, have finally parted, leaving Buffy and sister Dawn devastated. However, Angel, Buffy’s vampire admirer, uses black magic to try and ease her pain, accidentally unleashing a Malignancy Spirit that begins to fuel Buffy’s growing guilt, pain and rage.

A Stake To The Heart is released on 25th June 2004.

Life sucks...

The woes of Buffy Summers, the dysfunctional teenage vampire slayer, continue in this missing chapter of her life which bridges the gap between the film that started it all and the TV series.

Buffy’s life continues to implode. Her parents, mired in a loveless marriage, have finally parted, leaving Buffy and sister Dawn devastated. However, Angel, Buffy’s vampire admirer, uses black magic to try and ease her pain, accidentally unleashing a Malignancy Spirit that begins to fuel Buffy’s growing guilt, pain and rage. Oops...

Stake to the Heart proves there is no greater horror than real life.


4 Forum messages

  • > A Stake To The Heart - Details of new Buffy graphic novel

    9 May 2004 23:21, by d.love
    hey isnt dawn a magical creature so why is she there during her parents divorce

  • > A Stake To The Heart - Details of new Buffy graphic novel

    10 May 2004 15:39, by drudelia

    that’s awesome = ) i read a couple of the buffy novels. they’re decent.

    and if the story is written from buffy’s POV, then dawn would be there cause that would be how she remembers it. otherwise, i have no idea why she’s there...

  • > A Stake To The Heart - Details of new Buffy graphic novel

    10 May 2004 20:46, by Jennifer

    "hey isnt dawn a magical creature so why is she there during her parents divorce"

    *rolls eyes*

    Dawn isn’t "a magical creature", she’s HUMAN. She was made out of The Key’s energy and The Slayer, but she’s still human. The monks gave everybody memories - which they all referred to as "false memories", but we don’t KNOW that they’re false. We’ve seen that the Powers That Be can turn back time, in Angel season one, so it’s not all that unlikely that the monks (since they WERE powerful enough to create a human) could turn back time, or just alter the timeline enough to have added Dawn to it.

    Since Dawn was added to Buffy in season five, we now don’t really know what happened in the first four seasons - we can assume that most of the major plot points happened, but we don’t know the details (like whether Angelus threatened Dawn, whether she liked Angel, how it affected Buffy’s slaying (since she’d have to babysit) etc.)

    I think it’s great that they’ve remembered Dawn in this graphic novel and aren’t just leaving her out. It’ll be great to see their take on a younger Dawn’s personality.

  • > A Stake To The Heart - Details of new Buffy graphic novel

    17 May 2004 12:08, by Simon
    Jennifer, I do wonder sometimes how these people find Buffy(/Angel) dedication websites, and have only been watching it since the 4th last episode. Jamie: Jennifer nailed that. It makes sense that, since the book is being released after the final episode of Buffy, that they would give us more information on the monk-created mystery of Dawns past.