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Since "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" staked its last monster 20 years ago, the franchise hasn't exactly rested peacefully. Continuation comics, novels, and planned reboots have kept the Buffyverse alive, but its legacy has also been complicated by allegations of workplace misconduct and bullying made against series creator Joss Whedon.

The latest installment of the world of Buffy, the Audible series "Slayers: A Buffyverse Story," aims to course-correct that, reuniting key cast members for the first time ever to tell a story Whedon plays no part in. To say the writer is nowhere to be found here would be inaccurate, though, as "Slayers" -- an intermittently charming, sometimes forced new chapter -- is all about overcoming the toxic influence of the past.

The story takes place roughly 12 years after Buffy Summers instilled all potential slayers with their full power, breaking a cycle of pain and isolation that afflicted centuries worth of chosen teen girls.

In every generation, there is a chosen one… who inspires hours upon hours of entertainment. Twenty years after the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Buffyverse is still expanding, with the franchise’s first-ever audio drama on the way. The upcoming Audible production Slayers: A Buffyverse Story reunites Buffy stars James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Stewart Head, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, Danny Strong, James Charles Leary, and Juliet Landau for “a fresh story and a new world, filled with horror, heart, humor, and surprises at every turn,” as Audible said in a press release. Written by Benson and Christopher Golden — more on him later — Slayers follows vampire Spike (Marsters) into a parallel reality where Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy Summers never existed and Cordelia (Carpenter) is the one and only Slayer. And Cordelia needs Spike’s help with a big problem named Drusilla (Landau)… That audio drama premieres...

Twenty years after audiences watched Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) slay her last demon, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is set to return with a multiverse-style sequel. The new story won't be a TV show, but an audio series called "Slayers: A Buffyverse Story" -- a format switch that, while perhaps less common than a straightforward revival series, has been done successfully before by at least one other big fandom genre show, "Orphan Black."

There are a lot of reasons worth getting excited about "Slayers." Eight original series cast members are returning for the new project, including Emma Caulfield Ford (Anya), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia), Anthony Head (Giles), James Marsters (Spike), and more. Amber Benson is also returning despite her character Tara's controversial death in season 6 of the original show -- apparently the new series will play with alternate realities, allowing her character's reappearance. Plus, "Slayers" seems to be listening to...

Take a look at actress Florence Pugh, aka 'Yelena Belova' in Marvel Studios' "Black Widow", posing for the October 2023 issue of "Elle" magazine, photographed by Danny Kasirye:

Pugh made her US TV debut in the film "Studio City" (2015).

She then starred in the independent drama "Lady Macbeth"…

…followed by a recurring role as a webcam model in the first season of the ITV detective series "Marcella".

In 2018 she appeared in the action feature "The Commuter", followed by playing 'Cordelia' in Richard Eyre's TV movie “King Lear".

Pugh played 'Elizabeth de Burgh' in the Netflix historical film "Outlaw King" (2018)…

…then co-starred in “Black Widow” (2021) followed by reprising the role in Disney + TV series “Hawkeye”.

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The action begins with the launch of the manhwa series, Get Schooled, which is based on the hit webtoon by the renowned Korean webtoon production company, Ylab, and tells the story of a tough educator's unorthodox techniques to clean up a violent high school.

Get Schooled is currently one of the Top 2 Dramas on the Webtoons platform.

Page Views for the series: 78.7 million Webtoon Subscribers to the series: 1.3 million Average Rating of all Webtoon users for the series: 9.8 out of 10

The print edition of Get Schooled is highly anticipated!

Ablaze also opens advance solicitations in July for a pair of notable releases set to debut in August. The trade paperback edition of On The Way delivers a story of friendship, family, and learning by Spanish creators Paco Hernández and José Ángel Ares. Solicitations for Volume 2 of the popular supernatural romance webtoon manhwa series, Witch Of Mine, also open in July ahead of its August release.