Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive first look at Joss Whedon’s new comic book continuation of “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.”

Joss sits down and chats with EW’s Jeff Jensen about his new “Vampire Slayer” comic — and shows off a few panels.

Here is just a short segment of the EW piece:

So where does the comic find her?

”Not so much with the freedom,” quips Whedon. ”Not that everything is dire and angsty and season six-y, But she’s dealing with the consequences of having empowered thousands of girls around the world. She may have closed the Hellmouth under Sunnydale and defeated The First. But evil? Still rampant!”

In the Buffy spin-off TV series Angel, it was established that the Slayer was living in Italy and dating. The new comic fleshes out her time abroad, ”as we want to keep everything canon and in line with the shows. But right now, she’s out of the country and training a new squadron of Slayers.” Whedon had once discussed the idea of a spin-off TV series unofficially titled Slayer School, and he says the comic will include some of those ideas. ”There will be some new slayers that you’ll meet, and by the second issue, you’ll find out there are different camps across the world being run by various characters that fans will know. The comic focuses a lot on this new generation of slayers — the problems they will face, and the problems they will cause.”

For the complete 5-page spread, including a sneek-peak at several of the comic book panels visit EW.com.

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