In Space No One Can Hear You Slay

“First long weekend I have pouring coffee in three months and I end up here.”

"In Space No One Can Hear You Slay" was a Season Nine comic story available for free on May 5, 2012 and some time thereafter on the Dark Horse Comics website. It was also given out for free in published form as part of the 2012 Free Comic Book Day Buffy/Guild flipbook. It featured Buffy and Spike taking a space-cation in his ship.

Synopsis

Buffy and Spike take a relaxing trip into space... That soon has them encountering something from Alien—literally.

Continuity

The events take place after Severin's attack but before the Buffybot loses her arm.

Appearances

Individuals

Organizations and Titles

Species

Locations

Someplace nice for Buffy's vacation
Outer Space

Events

Weapons and Objects

Bugspray
Stake (Only mentioned)

Death Count

One Xenomorph (from Alien)

Behind the Scenes

Pop Culture References

The Space-bug-zompire-thing is actually a Xenomorph (Alien) from the Alien franchise.
The title is a parody of the tagline for the Alien movie poster, "In space no one can hear you scream."
Buffy says, "We're gonna need a bigger can" (of bug spray) in reference to the famous line from the movie Jaws, "You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Collections

Quotes

Spike - "If you can get to my storage locker, you'll find a can of... b-u-g-s-p-r-a-y."

Unidentified Bug #1 - "Did you say bugspray?!"

Unidentified Bug #2 - "You have bug spray!"

Unidentified Bug #3 - "Are you trying to kill us?!"

Unidentified Bug #4 - "King Spike wants to commit insecticide!"

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