Revelations (comic)

This article is about the Buffy Season 11 issue. For the season 3 episode, see Revelations.

Comic Issue
Revelations (comic)

Publication date	September 27, 2017
Pages	22
Series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11 #11
previous Crimes Against Nature	next One Girl in All the World
Creative Team
Published by	Dark Horse Comics
Writer(s)	Christos Gage
Penciller(s)	Rebekah Isaacs
Editor(s)	Freddye Miller
Cover artist(s)	Steve Morris Variant cover: Rebekah Isaacs & Dan Jackson
Colorist(s)	Dan Jackson
Letterer(s)	Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt

Revelations is the eleventh issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eleven comic book series. Joss Whedon is the executive producer.

Synopsis

With the Big Bad identified, Buffy and the Scoobies descend upon a top-secret government base for a battle to save the world and magical beings everywhere!^[1]

Continuity

Willow recalls Joanna Wise to be involved in every major decision after the tsunami crisis (The Spread of Their Evil), as she was responsible for announcements and interviews in In Time of Crisis, Desperate Measures, and Disempowered.
Faith mentions liking Willow's "Hammer of Govannon" spell, cast in her presence in The Great Escape.
Xander uses his military knowledge from his experience as an imaginary soldier ("Halloween").
Willow recalls Ophelia Reyes offer to work together, from In Time of Crisis.
This season's Big Bad is finally revealed as Joanna Wise, and the responsible for the Shenlong attack on San Francisco (The Spread of Their Evil).
Willow mentions her spell to share the Scythe's power will all the Potential Slayers ("Chosen"), deciding with Buffy to reverse it. It absorbs all the other Slayer's now grown power, including Faith's (a Slayer at the time).
Buffy recalls fighting evil all her life, as she became a Slayer at fifteen ("The Origin") as has been for more than ten years.

Appearances

Individuals

Organization and Titles

Pandora Project
Scooby Gang
Slayer
Xander and Spike's cats (Only mentioned)
Witch

Species

Locations

Weapons and Objects

Gun
Scythe
Tank

Rituals and Spells

Fire spell
Hammer of Govannon (Only mentioned)
"Liquescimus"
"Rain of death"
"Zhaohuan"

Death Count

None

Behind the Scenes

Production

The variant cover features a "deleted scene" from the issue, written by Christos Gage and art by Rebekah Isaacs.

Collections

"One Girl in All the World"

Pop Culture References

Willow quotes "Shock and awe", a military doctrine written in 1996.

Other

The Shenlong is invoked with the Chinese word "Zhaohuan", which translates as "summon."
Revelations was among the 300 best selling comic issues in its publication month, with 9,894 sales in September 2017 at comic specialty stores.^[2]