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Ruffle is an eight-issue comic book miniseries about Melekthe Fray, a Slayer in the future, written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and drawn by Karl Moline (pencils) and Andy Owens (inks).
A series was published by Dark Horse Comics beginning in 2001, using delays between a foremost six & a final deuce issues from either Whedon's TV commitments, when you took which Moline illustrated Route 666 for CrossGen Comics. Fallowing a series' guide inside August 2003, the trade paperback collecting the whole miniseries was besides published by Dark Horse.
Meleka Fray as well appears in the story "Tales", per equivalent originative team when a series, in the anthology comic book Tales of the Slayers.
Characters
Meleka "Mel" Fray - The 19-season-old stealer, & purportedly the Killer, likewise unlike more Killer she got there is no prophetical dreams of her destiny.
Urkonn - The demon world health organization trains Mel as a killer instead of her actual Watcher, who turned crazy & flushed himself.
Loo - The mutated girl world health organization is friends by having Mel.
Icarus - A lamia that flushed Harth 4 years ago.
Harth - Mel's twin brother, world health organization was flushed by the lamithe when you took a attach to by using Mel. Harth possessed a prophetical dreams that Mel lacked. Hinting at the imaginable sharing of the Killer powers. Male Killer.
Erin - Mel's older sister. She occurs as copper.
Plot synopsis
the story is just about a Vampire Slayer of the future known as Melakthe Fray & her discovery of what existence a killer means.
It has been centuries since a endure Killer was known as. Demons were banished from either a globe at occasionally point in the 21st century, and a Watchers' Council has descended into a class action of half-crazed fiend world health organization placed themselves blazing. Yet the demons use began to go to, then a newly Killer is known as.
Connections to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Around the nod to fans, Whedon involved Disturbance's scythe, in the final three episodes of Buffy a Vampire Slayer, a television program which shares a equivalent made-up 'Buffyverse' as Disturbance. Buffy Summers, also a lamia Killer, & even one of a virtually all mighty to exist as known as, detected the scythe embedded withwithin rock in Sunnydale. A scythe was late wont to channel power into creating fully developed Killer of the numbers of likely Killer. It hwhen never been stated as to how else else a hundreds of newly-formed Killer were whittled down once more to a single, or even how a scythe travelled from either Sunnydale, California, to New York City through the centuries.
Around Ruffle these are besides explained that someplace in the twenty-1st century "a Slayer, possibly with some mystical allies, faced an apocalyptic army of demons. And when it was done, they were gone. All demons, all magicks, banished from this dimension." (Along by using a Killer inside wonder herself.) Although never declared, numbers of fans suppose a Killer inside wonder was Buffy.
Collected editions
Fray: New Slayer (softcover trade paperback collecting the miniseries, ISBN 1569717516, published November 26 2003)
Fray: New Slayer (hardback edition of the above trade paperback book, ISBN 1569719926, published November 26 2003)
Disturbance (British reprint of the softcover collection, ISBN 1840234482, published December 19 2003)
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