‘BUFFY the Vampire Slayer” refuses to die.
The beloved show, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as a super-powered killer of the undead, has returned – as a comic book that will begin where the series left off when it ended in 2003.
“There were certain things we couldn’t do [on the TV show],” series and comic book creator Joss Whedon told MTV.com. “And many things we couldn’t afford to do.
“So now we can do pretty much whatever we want, within the bounds of common decency,” Whedon said. “Well, near the bounds of decency.”
With the new comic, available in March, Whedon gets to sort of rewrite how things were left at the end of “Buffy”: after saving the world, her entire hometown of Sunnydale was swallowed up by the Hellmouth, a doorway straight down through the Earth to an evil place.
Whedon says that popular Buffy characters like vampire Spike and Angel (Buffy’s two exes) will only appear briefly. “Buffy” aired on The WB and UPN from 1997-2003.