iPad WOD: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Cover

Buffy for iPad Wallpaper

August 22, 2010 iPad Wallpaper of the Day

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight is a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. The series serves as a canonical continuation of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and follows the events of that show’s final televised season. It is produced by Joss Whedon, who wrote the first arc, “The Long Way Home”. The first issue was released on March 14, 2007.

The series was originally supposed to consist of about 25 issues, but series editor Scott Allie stated that they were already “up to about 50, could go a little higher”, before it was finally decided that the series would have a 40-issue run. The series is ongoing. On September 24, 2009, Joss Whedon announced the series would continue into Season Nine. While Allie and Whedon discussed the potential for a spin-off limited series to play out side-stories too far outside of Season Eight’s narrative, only a Tales of the Vampires follow-up and a Willow: Goddesses and Monsters one-shot have been released thus far. A Riley one-shot is set to follow.

This Cover was painted by Jo Chen, Jo Chen (咎井淳) (born July 4, 1977) is a female comic book artist and writer most well known for her highly detailed painted comic book covers.

Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and emigrated to the United States in late 1994. Working professionally in the Asian comic book industry since age fourteen, she burst suddenly onto the U.S. comic book scene with her art work for the Racer X mini-series, part of the Speed Racer series published by Wildstorm/D.C. Comics in 2000.

She quickly established herself producing interiors and covers for titles including Darkminds: Macropolis, Battle of the Planets, Robotech, Fight For Tomorrow, Taskmaster, The Demon, Thor, and (Batman &) Robin. Currently she is most well known to American comic readers as the cover artist of Runaways and Joss Whedon’s current Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comic published by Dark Horse Comics.

In other media, Chen has also produced packaging artwork for Microsoft’s popular FABLE, FABLE: TLC and FABLE II RPGs, and done covers for PlayStation Magazine (a Final Fantasy cover for the January 2002 issue and a Tomb Raider cover for the February 2003 issue).

She is the younger sister of artist Christina Chen and lives with her family outside of Washington, D.C.