The approach that Buffy The Vampire Slayer comics are using to connect to the original TV series is really weird.
The tale of the mighty vampire slayer Buffy from the comics are making their way to connect the comics to the original TV series but in the weirdest way possible. Revolving around the life of a young girl named Buffy chosen by fate to battle against vampires, Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series premiered in 1997 and ended in 2003, however, the story of Buffy’s adventures continues in the world of comics and now the comics are relating to the real world by using the concepts of “multiverse”. To a physics nerd’s delight, the concepts of the multiverse are becoming more and more popular in the entertainment industry.
Although the comical world has been using the multiverse concepts for quite a long time, the cinematic universes have only recently started to use them in their stories. Both the MCU and the DCEU are working on establishing the multiverse in their respective cinematic universes and Buffy’s story is no exception. Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics have also introduced the multiverse concepts in the story and it is popularly being referred to as the “Buffyverse”.
The Buffyverse Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Although Buffy the vampire slayer comics have only recently related to the original TV series they have been using the concepts of the Multiverse for quite some time as the demons that our brave slayer fights do not exist in our universe but they jump into ours from their own plane of existence (much like ghosts). Also, the recent Hellmouth event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics revealed the Hellmouths were actually portals/gateways that connect different dimensions to each other.
The recent events in Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics, by Jeremy Lambert and Valentina Pinti, took a massive turn when the Scooby Gang willingly jumped into a different dimension. What’s interesting is that the new dimension in which they arrived is a lot similar to the one in the live-action TV series that aired from 1997 to 2003. The world that the Scooby Gang is in is currently set in the ‘90s (the time during which the original TV series aired), Buffy is in Sunnydale, Xander and Cordelia are in a romantic relationship and the gang is in the school library making plans for their next adventure. Does that sound familiar to you? The fans who watched the show will recognize that the current setting of the comics is greatly similar to the third season of the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.
The gang is following the golden rule of multidimensional travel- “Never interact with your doppelgangers” and so they are in hiding. In another scene where the Scoobies are enjoying shrimps, they reveal that they have never even heard about them and it is later revealed that they have their origins in a world that is deprived of shrimps, which was previously mentioned by Anya. Isn’t it weird how shrimps turn out to be the things that differentiate two universes from one another?
