Buffy Season Nine Issue 9 Cover (SPOILERS)

[Rich Johnston]

The cover to issue 8 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine caused considerable stir. And we still don't exactly know how that's going to play out, although I suspect a Skywalker apporach. But, trying not to spoil anything, the covers to Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine #9 appear to show a Buffy who is, well, less likely to be on her way to Venus de Milo status.

Of course there are two of her on Phil Noto's cover. I really hope this isn't one of Xander's weird dreams. Are these Buffys that could have been? Here's the solicits if you can garner some clues from that. The comic is on sale May 9th.

Andrew doesn?t always make the best choices (see Season 6). And now Buffy finds herself and the very course of her life profoundly affected by one of Andrew?s over-the-top, idiotic .?*.?*. hair-brained .?*.?*. schemes. Together with Andrew and Spike, the worried Slayer will have to confront herself and her comrades, as well as a long-standing annoyance, the number-one Buffy hater of all Buffy haters: Simone, the gun-toting Slayer.

Packing the punch into Buffy Season 9 are series writer Andrew Chambliss and guest artist Cliff Richards (Dollhouse)!

[Mad_Man_Moon]

Love me some Noto.

[FasterthanShaun]

The arm thing aside, the Noto cover is pretty straightforward for what's going on in the series--Buffy is facing a lot of choices, and one of them is whether and how to grow up.

[notthathard]

Interesting. Buffy's arms are both intact. I guess whatever happens in issue 8 doesn't take.

[Marine]

Buffy has a HUGE head

[Bill Reed]

Is this the Buffy/Ringer crossover I've been waiting for?

[ahlhelm]

Is this the Buffy/Ringer crossover I've been waiting for?

No, but it does look like Buffy stealing the concept of Ringer quite nicely.

Unless the cover really has nothing to do with the actual book.

[Evan Meadow]

Is this the Buffy/Ringer crossover I've been waiting for?

I was just coming in to type that!

[NielsVanEekelen]

Cliff Richards? Oh, cool. Always like seeing him return to Buffy.

[Mike H.]

Has the new Buffy series been any good? I felt so completely let down by Season 8 that I couldn't bring myself to even flip through an issue from Season 9.