Revelations (comic)

Revelations is the eleventh issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eleven comic book series. It was written by Christos Gage and illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs. 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 spell of Hammer of Govannon, 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

• Xander Harris
• Faith Lehane
• Ophelia Reyes
• Willow Rosenberg
• Shenlong
• Spike
• Buffy Summers
• Dawn Summers
• Joanna Wise

Organization and titles

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

Species

• Cyborg
• Demon
  • Dragon
• Human
• Vampire
• Werewolf (Only mentioned)

Locations

• San Francisco
  • Lands End
• Windsor Arms Motel

Weapons and objects

• Scythe

Rituals and spells

• Hammer of Govannon (Only mentioned)
• “Liquescimus”
• “Rain of death”
• Willow's fire spell
• “Zhaohuan”

Death count

• None

Behind the scenes

Production

• The variant cover features a “deleted scene” from the issue, written by Christos Gage and illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs.
• The Shenlong is invoked with the Chinese word “Zhaohuan”, which translates as “summon”.

Distribution

• Revelations was the 189º best selling comic issue in its publication month, with 9,894 sales in September 2017 at comic specialty stores.^[2]

Collections

• "One Girl in All the World"

Pop culture references

• Willow quotes “Shock and awe”, a military doctrine written in 1996.

Gallery

Cover artwork

Steve Morris main cover

Rebekah Isaacs variant

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Preview

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References