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As the Walt Disney Company prepares to usher in a new era for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise with a live-action TV series sequel with a new slayer alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar's titular heroine, Disney has moved the franchise's comic books from BOOM! Studios over to a new publisher: Dynamite. And Dynamite isn't just bringing Buffy back to comics, but is also relaunching the Angel series side-by-side.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer is truly one of the crown jewels of modern television, and comics fans know that she's more than made her mark in this medium as well," said Dynamite CEO/publisher/owner Nick Barrucci. "The genius mix of its small-town vibes with fantasy and horror, the seamless touches of humor, incredible strong female characters that we've been proud to always represent at Dynamite — it all works together for a perfect set of characters and framework for stories. Including Angel! Which we're excited to contribute to and build for new and returning fans!"

While Dynamite is keeping details on the story - and if it's a reboot, a continuation, or something else of previous TV shows, comics, or even the movie - it has picked out a writer for both the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic and the Angel comic. According to Dynamite series editor Nate Cosby, they didn't look at any previous Buffy writers (from the comics or TV series), or, frankly, anyone - except for one person: Kelly Thompson.

"Her passion for these characters is second-to-none," Cosby says of Thompson. "The interweaving story she’s crafted for both books is going to knock everyone's socks off."

Thompson comes to revive the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic franchise after she just did the same with DC's Wonder Woman in Absolute Wonder Woman, and did it in the past for Jem & The Holograms. 

"In my early days trying to figure out how to be a writer and what stories mattered to me and why — no heroine quite broke through for me like Buffy Summers," says Thompson. "She was somehow everything my young geek heart had always wanted but hadn’t known to ask for. Something about that delicate alchemy of horror, fantasy, and comedy paired with a hero so pure of heart and yet flawed and relatable was… impossible to deny. I fell deeply in love with Buffy, and following that, her whole world. Her ex-boyfriend is now a supernatural detective in Los Angeles you say? Inject it directly into my veins! But unlike a lot of other worlds I loved, the world of Buffy and Angel somehow never fell to the wayside. I could always come back to it and find something new, or something I’d missed, or something I needed. And I hope this new story we’re telling can do the same for old and new fans everywhere.”

Dynamite has chosen not to name the artist(s) drawing the Buffy and Angel comic book series just yet, but does say that David Nakayama will be drawing some covers for the two titles.

Those details, as well as a planned release date for these books, will be coming later this year, according to Dynamite.

Here's how to watch all of the Buffy-verse in order.