The Origin (Buffy comic)

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format = Soft cover, 80 pages, Full color
publisher = Dark Horse Comics
date = Sep 15, 1999
issues = "BtVS: The Origin #1-3"
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writers = Christopher Golden, Dan Brereton
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pencillers = Joe Bennett
inkers = Rick Ketcham, Randy Emberlin, J. Jadsen
colorists = Jeromy Cox, Guy Major
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"The Origin" is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television series.

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General Synopsis

Buffy Summers considers herself a normal high school student until a stranger approaches her and explains her destiny. Buffy only gradually accepts her new role as Vampire Slayer and must prevent the vampire Lothos from taking over Los Angeles.

"The Origin #1"

::::Buffy's a popular high school student who's planning her next big school dance. Merrick, a Watcher approaches her and announces that she has become the one and only Vampire Slayer.

"The Origin #2"

::::Buffy Summers learns how to fight vampires! Meanwhile the evil vampire, Lothos is gathering together a large group of undead Americans hoping to spread evil across the city. The rebel, Pike becomes entangled in Buffy's destiny.

"The Origin #3"

::::Buffy's Watcher, Merrick, is no more. Buffy has to deal with the evil of Lothos with only Pike to help her. Buffy must somehow negotiate the school dance and a growing evil. In the end the school gym is burned down (a major variation from the original film, in which the gym still stands at the story's end).

Continuity

Whedon stated: "The origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical. They did a cool job of combining the movie script (the SCRIPT) with the series, that was nice, and using the series Merrick [. . .] ." [http://www.cise.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/hsiao/buffy/get-archive?date=19990117]