Tales of the Slayers

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format = 96 pages, full color
publisher = Dark Horse Comics
date = July 1, 2002
issues = "Tales of the Slayers TPB", and "ToS: Broken Bottle of Djinn"
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"Tales of the Slayers" consists of two items, a graphic novel and a one-shot comic book, "Tales of the Slayer: Broken Bottle of Djinn".

Both the graphic novel and the one-shot are set in the Buffyverse. Together they compose an anthology of short stories written by Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, and others, each of which tells of a different member of the Slayer line.

The stories are presented in chronological order and offer snapshots of Slayers throughout history, from The First Slayer to Melaka Fray (the Slayer of the future who starred in her own limited comic series).

The comic miniseries "Tales of the Vampires", now available as a single collected trade paperback, offers a similar anthology of stories covering assorted Buffyverse vampires.

Tales within Buffyverse chronology

Prologue

*Story by: Joss Whedon
*Pencils: Leinil Francis Yu
*Inks: Dexter Vines
*Colors: Dave Stewart
*Letters: Michael Madsen
*Setting: prehistoric Africa
*Synopsis:

::Follows the prehistoric first Slayer, as she is rejected by her village and instructed to fight alone.

Righteous

*Story by: Joss Whedon
*Art by: Tim Sale
*Colors: Lee Loughridge
*Letters: Richard Starkings
*Setting:Medieval England
*Synopsis:

::A Slayer operating within a walled medieval town during a period of witch-hunts. The Slayer heroically fends off a large-scale attack of vampires, but is burned at the stake afterwards by the very people she saved. Her Watcher, a friar, can do nothing but watch. The story ends as the Watcher lets the vampires into the town, which has no one left to save it.

The Innocent

*Story by: Amber Benson
*Art by: Ted Naifeh
*Colors: Dave Stewart
*Letters: Michael Madsen
*Setting: France, 1789
*Synopsis:

::During the French Revolution. Claudine the Slayer is used by her Watcher to kill an aristocrat.

Presumption

*Story by: Jane Espenson
*Art by: P. Craig Russell
*Colors: Lovern Kindzierski
*Letters: Gallen Showman
*Setting: England 1813
*Synopsis:

::Elizabeth Weston has to operate in the English upper-class society of 1813.

The Glittering World

*Story by: David Fury
*Art and letters: Steve Lieber
*Colors: Matthew Hollingsworth
*Setting: Sunnydale, Late 19th Century
*Synopsis:

::The American West and a tale of a Navajo Slayer. In the end, it is revealed the story is being told to Richard Wilkins, who plans on buying the land where it happened (and naming it Happydale or Sunny Acres).

Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1937

*Story by: Doug Petrie
*Art by: Gene Colan
*Originally collected in: Tales of the Slayers: Broken Bottle of Djinn
*Setting: New York 1937
*Synopsis:

::A poor Slayer named Rachel O'Connor must deal with a powerful spirit.

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*Story by: Rebecca Rand Kirshner
*Art and colors: Mira Friedmann
*Letters: Jason Hvam
*Setting: Nuremberg, Germany, 1938
*Synopsis:

::A young World War II-era German Slayer, Anni, member of the League of German Girls, learns who the true monsters are.

Nikki Goes Down!

*Story by: Doug Petrie
*Art by: Gene Colan
*Colors: Dave Stewart
*Letters: Michael Madsen
*Setting: New York, 1970s
*Synopsis:

::Nikki Wood tries to balance a love life and slaying.

Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1997

*Story by: Jane Espenson
*Art by: Jeff Matsuda
*Originally collected in: Tales of the Slayers: Broken Bottle of Djinn
*Setting: Sunnydale, 1997
*Synopsis:

::A powerful spirit is released from a locker at Sunnydale High. Buffy and Willow end up transporting it back to 1937.

Tales

*Story by: Joss Whedon
*Pencils: Karl Moline
*Inks: Andy Owens
*Colors: Dave Stewart
*Letters: Michael Madsen
*Setting: New York, 26th century
*Synopsis:

::Fray discovers a former Watcher’s sanctuary and records of her Slayer forebears, realizing that while she is the only one in the world, she is not alone.
*The scythe in this story later appears in the final episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". It is found by Buffy and used to fight off the Ubervamps.
*When Fray is next seen in "Time of Your Life" ("Season Eight"), the Sanctuary is depicted as Fray's main base of operations.

ee also

*"History of the Slayer" WB advertisements

External links

*Interview with artist [http://www.SlayerLit.us "Gene Colan" at SlayerLit]