Episode Guide

01 Big City Girl | 02 The Calling | 03 Ready Steady… | 04 Out of the Past | 05 The Worst of It | 06 Alarums | 07 The Gateway | 08 All Hell

01: Big City Girl

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: January 2001

Summary: You’ve never seen a world like this, and neither has she. She’s Melaka Fray, a beautiful, young girl that’s about to meet her destiny, whether she wants to or not. In the future, the world is a manmade, hopeless hell. Add to that vampires, demons and other grim, supernatural threats that cover in shadows and skulk late-night streets. When the forces of darkness come calling, Fray will be transformed from street urchin of a disposable society to its only savior. And, heaven help her if she fails.


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02. The Calling

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: 4 July 2001

Summary: Fray’s world has been turned upside down. After finishing a routine breaking and entering job, she’s returned to her apartment to find an eight-foot-tall demon. Now she’s got another job proposal put in front of her, and her life will never be the same.


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03. Ready, Steady …

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: 1 August 2001

Summary: As a professional thief, Melaka Fray has seen her share of danger and excitement. But is she ready for the challenges facing a Slayer? This issue, Melaka learns some of the history of the Slayers and comes to understand a little about what it means to her. Ready or not, here she comes! She’s taking on the forces of darkness like no one else can.


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04. Out of the Past

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: 17 October 2001

Summary: Fray fends off an attack from the creep that killer her brother. Barely escaping with her life, she becomes determined to find the monster and stop him… forever! But she’s being hunted as well … by a pack of blood-crazed vampires, and by the police led by her own sister. Fray discovers exactly what kind of creature is after her and it’s not pretty!


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05. The Worst of It

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: 5 December 2001

Summary: Melaka’s been keeping up the good fight. But, now that she knows the horrible truth about the vampire that’s been stalking her, can she keep it up? No matter what she does, Melaka is not going to like it. Meanwhile, she’s on the run from the thugs and the police. This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.


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06. Alarums

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: 27 March 2002

Summary: After a crushing turn of events, Melaka’s back on her feet, taking the fight into the pits of the city, the rat-infested warren she calls home. But are these street-urchin vamps behind the recent murder that set Fray over the edge?


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07. The Gateway

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: 23 April 2003

Summary: Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, completes his vision of the future, the story of the future slayer. One of the fiercest battles in the history of comics, drawn in grand style by Karl Moline and Andy Ownes, begins the climax to Dark Horse’s runaway hit. So what do we have left for next issue? It just gets worse for the this poor, young Slayer.


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08. All Hell

SYNOPSIS | GALLERY

Writer: Joss Whedon
Penciler: Karl Moline
Inker: Andy Owens
Letterer: Michelle Madsen
Colourist: Dave Stewart
Covers: Karl Moline | Andy Owens
Release Date: 23 April 2003

Summary: The Slayer’s brother has led a vampire war to not only overtake Manhattan, but bring to earth a demonic dragon – but the harshest threat to Fray remains unseen and unnamed.

Be here for a conclusion we promise you didn’t see coming!


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