Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Reunion

Buffy the Vampire: Reunion, a 2002 one-shot, is actually one of the best of the pre-Season Eight Buffy comics (which on the whole are rather mediocre). The issue is written by Jane Espenson, who wrote a lot of the episodes, and is something in the nature of a "lost tale": during the show, there's a point early in Season Six where we see Buffy leave to tell Angel that she's back from the dead--and when we see her again, she's returned from the meeting and never explains what happened. This issue is all about Buffy's friends speculating about what took place when she saw Angel again. Xander thinks they met up at the big Hollywood sign where they were attacked by a giant flaming demon; Dawn thinks they had a romantic moonlight stroll on the beach before being attacked by a giant flaming demon; and Anya thinks they met up a Denny's, had a "juicy burger", and were then attacked by a demonic rabbit and . . . a giant flaming demon. Notice the pattern? There's actually a clever explanation for it that brings everything full circle. There's a lot of good humor in the issue and a couple of laugh-out-loud moments, which I always think is something the show was much better at than the comics. Anyway, Reunion is definitely one of the best of the bunch.