Tales of the Slayer/Vampire

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Tales of the Vampires was a comicbook mini-series of five issues. In each issue were a number of short stories by different writer/artist teams. Additionaly there was one story written by Joss Whedon (with art by Alex Sanchez) which was spread out over all of the issues, which functioned as a framing device for the other stories. These issues were later collected in a trade paperback.

Tales of the Slayers was a graphic novel (much longer than a single issue) which collected a number of stories about slayers by different writer/artist teams. Only one volume appeared.

Additionally, there was a one-shot (one single issue) called Broken Bottle of the Djinn which caried the Tales of the Slayers title, although its canonicity is unclear. There's also one further story (Dames) that carries the Tales of the Vampires story, which was presented in the Drawing on Your Nightmares flipbook. Again it's unclear whether this story is canon.

To add to the confusion, there's also a decidedly non-canon collection of short stories called Tales of the Slayer (note the Slayer is singular, as opposed to the plural in the comics).
 
Thanks Allycat, I've figured it out at last !!

So if I got it right :
This is canonical and is what you were talking about. And there's only one TPB.

However, this, this, this and this are non-canonical... Are they any good though? I didn't understand because in Amazon.FR, they are said to be written by Joss... Ah, those Frenchies. :lmao:
 
I'd say you've got it right Five, but there are others who would disagree. Not so much about the books not being canon. There's never been any kind of credible reason for considering them such. Joss doesn't read them. He doesn't contribute to them. There's never been any kind of respected voice referring to them as canon, I've heard.

There is good reason to think of ToTS, and TotV as canon though. Joss may have had some sort of supervisoral role, and pieces of them have carried on into the canon Buffy 8 implying Joss's authorization. The wider spectrum of fandom appears to have accepted them as canon. Nevertheless I've heard at least one person here who doesn't accept them as canon, and he argues a decent point. If Joss does not give them specific Canon status, this person does not consider them canon.

When Buffy 8 started up, the issue of what is, or isn't canon appeared more clear than it is today. If Joss said it was, then it was. Since that time however there's some question as to what exactly it is he puts the canonical stamp of approval onto, so now it's a little trickier.
 
To further complicate the issue, there's two stories that appeared under the TotS and TotV banners respectively that weren't included in the collection.

The TotS one was a one-shot called Broken Bottle of the Djinn by Doug Petrie & Jane Espenson.

The TotV one appeared in a flipbook called Draw on Your Nightmares; the story was called Dames and it was written by Brett Matthews (who will also be writing an arc of S8 this season).
 
Okay okay... Thanks a lot for confirming =)

Are the Tales of the Slayer (non-canonical) any interesting though?

Oh, and what about the Omnibus??
 
Five said:
Oh, and what about the Omnibus??
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I haven't read the actual omnibuses, but I have read most of the comics they collect. They're all non-canon, and most of them aren't that great. Enterating but not good. The first omnibus does contain one canon-story though; the Origin. It's an adaptation of Joss' original script for the Buffy-movie.
 
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