Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Hellmouth

by Whedon, Joss; Bellaire, Jordie; Lambert, Jeremy; Carlini, Eleonora

• ISBN13: 9781684155361
• ISBN10: 1684155363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-07-21
• Publisher: Boom! Studios

Summary

Buffy and Angel meet for the first time - but are they friends or enemies? Joss Whedon’s pop culture icons come together for their first ever comic book event to face the world-ending event hundreds of years in the making—the opening of the gates to the Hellmouth!

BUFFY AND ANGEL MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME - BUT ARE THEY FRIENDS OR ENEMIES?

Buffy and Angel meet face-to-face in the world-ending event hundreds of years in the making—the opening of the gates to the Hellmouth!

Buffy and her Scooby Gang will have to muster all their strength as they deal with an open Hellmouth that threatens the lives of everyone they love in Sunnydale. Meanwhile, Angel, the vampire cursed with a soul, arrives in town to find his redemption by doing whatever it takes to close the Hellmouth...and no human, demon or Slayer will stand in his way.

Writers Jordie Bellaire (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Redlands) & Jeremy Lambert (Doom Patrol) and artist Eleonora Carlini (Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers) brings Buffy and Angel face-to-face in the first ever comic book event featuring Joss Whedon’s pop culture icons! 

Author Biography

Joseph Hill Whedon is an American film director, producer, writer, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions, co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series. These include Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Angel (1999–2004), Firefly (2002), Dollhouse (2009–2010), and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020).

Whedon co-wrote for the Pixar animated film Toy Story (1995) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay), wrote and directed the Firefly film continuation Serenity (2005), co-wrote and directed the Internet miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), and co-wrote and produced the horror comedy film The Cabin in the Woods (2012). He wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films The Avengers (2012) and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and also co-wrote the script for the DC Extended Universe superhero film Justice League (2017). He also served as director for Justice League on re-shoots, replacing Zack Snyder (who retained directorial credit).

Actors Ray Fisher, Charisma Carpenter, Michelle Trachtenberg and Amber Benson have complained publicly about Whedon's behavior on set. WarnerMedia investigated Fisher's allegations and announced that they had taken "remedial action" in December 2020.

Jordie Bellaire is an American comic book colorist who lives in Ireland and works for DC, Marvel, Valiant, and Image comic book publishers. She has colored Pretty Deadly, The Manhattan Projects, Moon Knight, The Vision, Magneto, Nowhere Men, Hawkeye, Batman, among other titles.

Bellaire is credited with starting the "Comics are for everybody" initiative to make the comic book community more inclusive and compassionate.

 

In 2014, Bellaire was nominated for an Eisner award for best cover artist for her collaboration on The Wake with Sean Murphy. In addition, she also received a nomination for Best Coloring award for her work on various titles, which she won.

Jeremy Lambert is a writer and filmmaker from Bowie, Maryland, now residing in Los Angeles, California. He currently writes BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER for BOOM! Studios. He co-wrote DOOM PATROL: WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS with Gerard Way for DC Comics, the graphic novel GOOSEBUMPS: MONSTERS AT MIDNIGHT for Scholastic/IDW, TSUM TSUM KINGDOM for IDW/Disney, and a story for Kodansha Publishing’s ATTACK ON TITAN, among others. He is currently writing a graphic novel trilogy to be published in 2022. He worked as Head of Production for Breakwater Studios, Ltd. from 2017 through the end of 2020 and continues to work in their Story & Development department. Prior to his writing and filmmaking career, he was an extras casting director, working on films and television shows like TRUE BLOOD, LA LA LAND, FURIOUS 7, MAGIC MIKE, TRUE DETECTIVE, and others.