Fray (series)

Fray was a comic book series from Dark Horse Comics.

Premise
Hundreds of years in the future, Melaka Fray was the first Slayer to called in a long time. The Watcher's Council was all but destroyed and she had not had any of the Slayer visions. Her only source of information was a questionable demon named Urkonn, who had his own agenda.

Continuity
The events took place before "Tales".
 * Fray's scythe was found by Buffy Summers, also a vampire Slayer, embedded in rock in Sunnydale. The scythe was later used to channel power into creating fully developed Slayers of the many Potential Slayers.
 * Sometime in the twenty-first century, "a Slayer, possibly with some mystical allies, faced an apocalyptic army of demons. And when it was done, they were gone. All demons, all magicks, banished from this earthly dimension," and the Slayer, whose fate is unknown, was the last to be called.
 * Discussing her connection to the Slayer line, Urkonn told Melaka, "In your dreams, you're someone else. A slave. A princess. A girl in school in a sunlit city." Fray's scar and her personality resembled Buffy in the alternate universe.

Appearances

 * Melaka Fray (8/8)
 * Erin Fray (8/8)
 * Harth Fray (8/8)
 * Urkonn (8/8)
 * Icarus (6/8)
 * Broder (6/8)
 * Gunther (5/8)
 * Loo (5/8)
 * Amma (5/8)
 * Jove (5/8)
 * Vrill (4/8)
 * Boluz (4/8)
 * Edo (2/8)
 * Kettie Rawls (2/8)

Publications
The series included eight issues, which were later collected in a trade paperbacks and a hardcover.

Behind the Scenes

 * The series was published by Dark Horse Comics beginning in 2001, with delays between the first six and the final two issues caused by Whedon's TV commitments, during which artist Karl Moline illustrated Route 666 for CrossGen Comics.
 * In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, one of the Slayers is shown to be reading a Fray comic, a minor in-joke to fans of the series.