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{{ComicSeries
|cover     = BuffyHSY1-TPB-FC.jpg
|issues    = TBA
|first     = [[Freaks & Geeks]]
|firstdate = June 01, [[2016]]
|last      = TBA
|lastdate  = TBA
|publisher = [[Dark Horse Comics]]
|writer    = [[Faith Erin Hicks]]<br />[[Kel McDonald]]
|penciller = [[Yishan Li]]
|editor    = 
|coverart = [[Scott Fischer]]
|colorist = [[Rod Espinosa]]}}

'''''Buffy: The High School Years''''' is a graphic novel series from [[Dark Horse Comics]].

==Premise==
Set during Season 1 of the television series, ''Buffy: The High School Years'' delivers classic [[Slayer]] action! Moving to a new school and making new friends will create enough anxiety for any teenage girl. But when you're [[Buffy Summers]], a vampire slayer — the Chosen One (with all that entails) — building a new life can be overwhelming.<ref>[http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/2165/ "NYCC 2015: Faith Erin Hicks pens all new "Buffy" tale for young readers"]. Dark Horse Comics, October 11, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2016‎.</ref>

==Continuity==
The events take place during [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 1)|Season 1]] of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'']].

Despite an official publishing and not necessarily contradicting the [[canon]] [[Buffyverse]], these stories don't have the intention to add facts to the canon universe, therefore considered non-canon. [[Joss Whedon]] not being involved in these publication is another indicative of lack of canonicity.

==Appearances==
*[[Buffy Summers]] (3/3)  
*[[Xander Harris]] (3/3) 
*[[Willow Rosenberg]] (3/3) 
*[[Rupert Giles]] (3/3) 
*[[Joyce Summers]] (2/3)
*[[Angel]] (1/3)
*[[Cordelia Chase]] (1/3)
*[[Harmony Kendall]] (1/3)
*[[Principal Flutie]] (1/3)

==Publications==
The series have included 3 issues and 1 short story:

===Graphic Novels===
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Image:BuffyHSY-01.jpg|100px]]
|"[[Freaks & Geeks]]"
| style="text-align:center;" |1
| style="text-align:center;" |June 1, 2016
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| rowspan="1" |'''Written by:''' [[Faith Erin Hicks]]
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" |'''Artist:''' [[Yishan Li]]
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| colspan="3" rowspan="1" |A group of nerdy vampires, shunned by their cooler brethren, decide to climb the vampire social ladder by taking out the Slayer. They play on Buffy's insecurities, wearing her down until she is full-on distracted by the mental warfare. But in addition to her Watcher, Giles, this Slayer has a couple of new friends, Willow and Xander, to cheer her on… except, of course, when they're not getting along.
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Image:BuffyHSY-02.jpg|100px]]
|"[[Glutton for Punishment]]"
| style="text-align:center;" |2
| style="text-align:center;" |November 1, 2016
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| rowspan="1" |'''Written by:''' [[Kel McDonald]]
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" |'''Artist:''' [[Yishan Li]]
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| colspan="3" rowspan="1" |When Buffy and Xander sign up for home ec, assuming it will be an extra-credit cakewalk, they aren't aware that the teacher is a ravenous tiger demon in disguise. The demon's unquenchable appetite has him kidnapping his top students and forcing them to cook for him, and when Xander claims some store-bought treats are his own creations, he becomes the demon's next victim! It's not enough that Buffy has to keep her grades up, but she also has to rescue her friends and fellow students-and give the tiger demon his just desserts!
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| colspan="1" rowspan="3" |[[Image:BuffyHSY-03.jpg|100px]]
|"[[Parental Parasite]]"
| style="text-align:center;" |3
| style="text-align:center;" |June 28, 2017
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| rowspan="1" |'''Written by:''' [[Kel McDonald]]
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" |'''Artist:''' [[Yishan Li]]
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| colspan="3" rowspan="1" |Buffy struggles to deal with her mom Joyce’s newfound interest in spending time with her. Balancing that with her schoolwork, her friends, and her regular vampire-slaying duties is a challenge. However, when Joyce becomes hypnotized by a childlike demon that craves motherly care, Buffy experiences a new kind of sibling rivalry – except in Buffy’s case, her “sibling” is actually a monster!
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===Short Story===
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|''[[No Need to Fear, the Slayer's Here]]''
| style="text-align:center;" |May 6, 2017
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| rowspan="1" |'''Written by:''' [[Kel McDonald]]
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" |'''Artist:''' [[Yishan Li]]
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| colspan="3" rowspan="1" |In our 2017 all-ages offering, you’ll thrill to a monster-slaying, citizen-saving adventure with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sixteen-year-old Buffy is still learning her trade, and sometimes battles with demons and bad luck can erode a girls confidence – and her ability to have high-school fun… #SlayerStruggleIsReal.
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[[Category:Buffy comics]]
[[Category:The High School Years]]