Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith and Wesley Just Joined the New Scooby Gang – CBR – Comic Book Resources

Two classic characters from the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer have been introduced to the comics Scoobies, and setting up some major new team-ups.

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20, by Jordie Bellaire, Jeremy Lambert, Ramon Bachs and Ral Angulo, on sale now.

The Scooby Gang of the BOOM! Studios Buffyverse has been growing and evolving, with new heroes joining the group while contending with former allies turned villainous like Xander. Two more allies just met the rest of the group and might be able to bring some backup to the heroes or bring in new levels of drama.

Robin Wood just introduced Faith and Wesley to the rest of the Scoobies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20, setting up a larger group of Buffyverse heroes who can try to contend with the myriad threats currently spreading throughout Sunnydale.

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Faith made her new Buffyverse first appearance inBuffy the Vampire Slayer #19, helping protect a stunned Robin Wood while he's on patrol and fighting a number of different vampires. However, it becomes quickly apparent during a conversation with Robin and Wesley that she has no idea of what vampires really are. She reveals that she only believes that she's dealing with "bad guys" while traveling the country. She's quickly defined as a calm woman and is far more put-together than her television-counterpart. However, she still hasn't revealed the exact reason she's made her way to Sunnydale, or why she left Boston in the first place. The whole time though, she's been followed by Wesley, the young man set to be her Watcher.

In the original Buffyverse, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce was a Watcher assigned to Buffy and Faith in the third season of the series after Giles was fired by the Watchers Council. Introduced as a stuffy and by-the-books Watcher, he eventually also left the order after the chaos of Faith's tenure as a Slayer, which set him up to move to Los Angeles and join with Angel Investigations to fight demons outside of the Hellmouth. In the current Slayerverse, Wesley is a young member of the Watchers Council, haunted by the ghost of Ethan Rayne and initially serving as a researcher for the Council. But after a third Slayer is called into action, Wesley is assigned to serve as her Watcher. Arriving in America, Wesley quickly finds Robin and Faith, convincing them to take him along to visit the other members of the Scoobies.

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