Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer (2021) No. 2

The subject of this article is of alternative canonicity. While created as part of licensed material, it is not part of the original Buffyverse, but its own developed story.

Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer No. 2
Publication	January 12, 2022
Length	22 pages
Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer (2021) #2
← Previous	Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer No. 1
Next →	Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer No. 3
Publisher	Boom! Studios
Writer(s)	Casey Gilly
Penciller(s)	Joe Jaro
Editor(s)	Elizabeth Brei
Cover artist(s)	Ario Anindito Rod Reis Jakub Rebelka Giuseppe Camuncoli
Colorist(s)	Joana Lafuente
Letterer(s)	Ed Dukeshire

Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer No. 2 is the second issue of the Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer miniseries. Written by Casey Gilly and illustrated by Joe Jaro, it was originally published on January 12, 2022, by Boom! Studios.

Synopsis

After a coven rally meant to heal the atmosphere ends in tragedy, Thessally seeks out Buffy guided only by instructions from an old friend.

Despite their shared past, Buffy refuses to train her. Instead, she delivers Thess to The Watcher's Council, certain they'll be more suitable guardians.

But the Council isn't what they seem, putting Buffy and Thessally in peril, until the intervention of three hooded figures...

Summary

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Continuity

• In this reality, Tara did not die in "Seeing Red."
• Thessaly is revealed to be Willow's daughter, a witch, and Potential Slayer. The non-canon novel In Every Generation, published in the same month as this story, presents these same characteristics about Frankie Rosenberg.
• Buffy say that the way she discovered she was a Slayer was more dangerous than Thessaly's. In the original timeline, Buffy went to a cemetery and fought off two vampires so Merrick could prove that she was the Slayer ("Becoming, Part One," The Origin, Part One).
• Thessaly finds a Fiesta Queen ribbon, which Buffy mentioned she had won in "Homecoming."

Appearances

Individuals

• Angel (Only mentioned)
• Grace Bronswell
• Enyo (Only voice)
• Delilah Finch (Only mentioned)
• Wren Galliway
• Rupert Giles (Only in picture)
• Hannah (Only mentioned)
• Anya Jenkins
• Tara Maclay (Only in flashbacks)
• Mabel Omori
• Elowen Reed
• Thessaly Maclay Rosenberg
• Willow Rosenberg (Only in flashbacks)
• Spike
• Buffy Summers
• Charlie Urville

Organizations and titles

• Potential Slayer
• Slayer
• Watcher's Supernatural Advisement Counsel
• Watcher (Only mentioned)
• Witch

Species

• Demon
  • Slornoth
  • Vengeance demon
• Higher being (Only voice)
• Human
• Minotaur (Only mentioned)
• Vampire

Locations

• London
  • Buffy Summers' apartment

Objects

• Around the Town
• Enyo's Hour (Only in flashbacks)
• Stake
• Sunnydale High Yearbook

Rituals and spells

• "Aim ad cor"
• "Solis adustio adolebitque"

Death count

• Unidentified vampire, burned by Thessaly.
• Unidentified vampire, staked by Buffy.
• Six vampires, including Grace Bronswell, burned by the four witches.

Behind the scenes

Production

• The spell "aim ad cor" translates from Latin as "aim at the heart," and "solis adustio adolebitque" translates as "burn in the sun."

Distribution

• Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer No. 2 was ranked the 75th best-selling comic issue in its published month, with estimated 12,370 sales for January 2022 at comic specialty stores.

Collections

• Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer

Pop culture references

• Thessaly observes that she was named after a comic book character, the witch Thessaly from the Sandman comics.

Goofs

• The issue credits Dani Pendergast for one of the variant covers, but she produced a cover only for Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer No. 1.
• Willow calls Tara "Tare" when they first see Enyo's Hour.

Gallery

Covers

Ario Anindito's main cover

Rod Reis's spotlight cover

Jakub Rebelka's variant cover

Giuseppe Camuncoli's variant cover

Ario Anindito's variant cover

Rod Reis's unlocked variant cover