The second arc of Dark Horse’s Angel & Faith series starts this week with Issue #6, written by Christos Gage and with art by Rebekah Isaacs, and your friendly, neighborhood Comic Book Slayer has an advance review for his Scooby gang! I’m proud to report that both Gage and Isaacs are at full force in this issue, as the Angel & Faith series continues to jockey with Buffy: Season 9 for the title of best Whedon comic of 2012!
 
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Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association, now in its tenth year, will be published semiannually rather than quarterly.  The, WSA is encouraging papers for the upcoming Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses 5 (in Vancouver, Canada this year) submit to Slayage and ask that you also, if you are a professor, encourage your students to submit to Watcher Junior (More information after the jump).

The idea of Slayage was born in the spring of 2001 as WSA considered over one hundred and forty proposals submitted for possible inclusion in Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a book published by Rowman and Littlefield). It was learned, too, that two other collections of essays on Buffy were also in the works. It seemed obvious that there was a not-soon-to-be-exhausted international critical and scholarly interest in BtVS. With Whoosh! The Journal of the International Association of Xenoid Studies in mind as a model, Slayage was born early in 2001.  Founding editors are David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox.  In the spring of 2010, beginning with Volume 8, Number 1, Slayage became "The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association."