Buffy is dating a girl in new comic ‘Where All Paths Lead’
As much as I live and breathe all things Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I’ve struggled to keep up with the comic book adaptation since it moved to Boom Studios last year. The company revamped the most iconic Slayer of all time and her friends, and put them back in Sunnydale High School; a nod to when the television show was just beginning and at its peak. However, Angel received his own spin-off shortly there-after and then the two stories collided in a third comic book entity called ‘Hellmouth’ – and now we have the ‘Every Generation’ series.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Every Generation is going to tell untold stories featuring the Scooby Gang while also shining a light on vampire slayers we never got a chance to know, both past and present. Considering the Slayer lineage goes all the way back to before human speech was invented (I see you, Sineya), I think there’s a lot of material to cover. And while ‘Every Generation’ consists of three unique stories, it’s the first arc, ‘Where All Paths Lead,’ that has fans talking. Why? Well, spoiler alert, Buffy is dating Cordelia Chase.
Yes, that Cordelia Chase. Known as Buffy’s high school bully, Prom Queen and Ice Queen all in one, Cordelia became an unwilling participant in the battle against evil when she fell for Xander Harris. After the couple broke up and graduated high school, Cordelia moved to Los Angeles and started ridding dark forces with Angel and Wesley. ‘Where All Paths Lead’ puts the girls literally closer than ever, especially in a panel where the two share a major lip lock.
Opposites attract?
I don’t think my problem with this lies with re-envisioning Buffy and Cordelia as lesbians (or at least bisexual). While it’s true that they were never intended to identify this way throughout the 1992 movie and the seven season television series, I support whatever incarnation I get as long as it stays true to the subject matter. In this case, I don’t like having a happy, perky Cordelia Chase. Being a bitch and slowly turning into an empathetic hero was a major part of her character arc, and leaving that out of the equation just doesn’t sit well with me.
Either way, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Every Generation is on sale now by Boom Studios.
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