But Why Tho? Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer The 25th Anniversary – Issue #1

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The 25th Anniversary #1 is an anthology one-shot published by BOOM! Studios. True to its name, the anthology contains a number of stories centred on the titular Slayer and her friends, with a number of creators delivering the same mix of humor and horror which made the television series a staple of pop culture. It also teases a number of future series, which contains BOOM!’s expansion of the Buffy franchise following series like Buffy: the Last Vampire Slayer.

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Harper’s Bazaar: The Quiet Radical Feminism of Buffy

Today, Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns 25. This means two things. One, I am officially old, and two, this is a ripe time to look back at the legacy of this cult show. Twenty-five years on, Buffy is much more than disgraced show-runners (more on which later) or even the resurgence of its distinctive nineties fashion. This is a show which utterly redefined the way we view female-led drama and foregrounded a feminism which was remarkably nuanced and subtly game-changing.

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Today: ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ was more than a TV show. It changed my life

When “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” premiered in the spring of 1997 as a midseason replacement on a fledgling network with a talking frog as its mascot, few predicted it would make it to a season two, let alone seven seasons and 144 episodes. Certainly even fewer predicted that it would become the cultural phenomenon that it is today, with a still-beating heart 25 years later. And yet!

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Vogue: Buffy Fashion 25 Years Later

If you’ve never watched the entire masterful series of Buff the Vampire Slayer, which turns 25 today, you’re seriously missing out. Not only do we have Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) kicking some serious vampire butt, but the high school teenager – who’s mysteriously gifted with superhuman strength to fight the undead – does so in style. She’ll drive stakes through the hearts of her fanged enemies while wearing badass leather pants, sleek camis, and butt-kicking angle boots. As each of the seven seasons progress, Buffy’s heroic fashion only gets better, thanks t costume designer Cynthia Bergstrom. More than two decades later, we still see outfits that feel totally Buffy, both on the runaways and street style stars.

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GQ: Ian Carlos Crawford on Podcasting Buffy the Vampire Slayer

For Buffy’s 25th anniversary, Slayerfest 98’s Ian Carlos Crawford deep dives into the show’s unparalleled legacy – and why it has become so much bigger than Joss Whedon

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ComicM!X Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Movie)

REVIEW: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 25th Anniversary Once upon a time, a young screenwriter managed to sell a vampire film script with the absurd title…

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