Buffy The Vampire Slayer

"Capitalism bites!"

So begins the charming, campy tale of Buffy the Anarcho-Syndicalist, a comic distributed by AK Press that combines the spirit of the cult TV series with the rhetoric of anti-capitalist activists. The author clearly shares my long-harbored crush on Giles (Buffy’s "watcher" on the onetime WB show), who appears in the comic as a sizzling "hardened revolutionary" sporting a beret, sunglasses, and a series of sexy poses. Ahem. The story unfolds much like that of a typical Buffy episode, with our "proletarian heroes" rescuing innocent people from the clutches of various evildoers (Klansmen, fascists, and capitalist vampires). There’s a close call when Maria, the sinister CEO of Blood Red Enterprises, nearly turns Buffy into her slave and, worse yet, her "loyal consumer!" If there’s another installment, I want to see more puns — on the show, Buffy’s best feature was her love of all things punny — but for now, I’m just happy that somebody dreamed this up.

Click on the link :

http://www.akpress.com/2005/items/buffytheanarchosyndicalist