Dynamite Pushes Buffy and Angel to March 2027, Firefly to April, to Make Room for a Bigger Story

Dynamite Entertainment used NYCC 2026 to confirm new dates for its upcoming Whedonverse relaunch: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 now arrives March 10, 2027, with Angel #1 following later that same month and Firefly joining in April. All three had been expected sooner, but publisher Nick Barrucci said the delay comes down to story rather than production trouble: "we felt we needed to take a step back and up the page count to meet the story."

Kelly Thompson writes both Buffy (art by Stephen Byrne) and Angel (art by Giulia Giacomino), and the two now ship as linked 48-page issues — 35 story pages for Buffy, 32 for Angel — built around a new villain called Leviathan that Thompson is billing as a "groundbreaking event" for the Buffyverse. Both debuts hold the line at a standard $4.99 despite the extra page count. Firefly, from writer Mark Russell and artist Lorenzo Re, rounds out the slate in April.

For a franchise that's had more false starts in comics than most, trading a few extra months for a bigger opening page count is a reasonable bet if it means the first arc actually sticks the landing.

Original reporting: Bleeding Cool.