Angel: The Hollower (Buffy comic)

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Angel: The Hollower

Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
Format	Soft cover, 88 pages
Publication dates	May 10, 2000
Number of issues	BtVS: Angel #1-3 (aka Angel: The Hollower #1-3)

Creative team
Writer(s)	Christopher Golden
Penciller(s)	Hector Gomez
Inker(s)	Sandu Florea
Colourist(s)	Guy Major

Angel: The Hollower is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy television series.

1 Story description
2 Trivia
3 Continuity
- 3.1 Canonical issues
- 3.2 Timing
4 See also

[edit] Story description

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details about some or all of the Buffyverse productions (Buffy, Angel, Fray, etc.) follow.

[edit] General Synopsis

Angel has an encounter with someone from his past, and now has to face a threat he had hoped had been long destroyed: the Hollower. The Hollower is a natural predator of vampires. The hideous thing might be linked to Angel's salvation or his destruction.

[edit] BtVS: Angel #1

Comic title: The Hollower #1

Angel investigates an old horror from his past. He hopes he is strong enough to overcome the monster's unusual powers.

[edit] BtVS: Angel #2

Comic title: The Hollower #2

Angel must now face a threat he had hoped had been long-destroyed. Yet the abdomination known as the 'Hollower' just might be connected with Angel's salvation or destruction.

[edit] BtVS: Angel #3

Comic title: The Hollower #3

Angel comes up against the old enemy of vampires, the 'Hollower' in a battle for survival.

[edit] Trivia

Characters include: Angel, Spike, Drusilla, Buffy, Giles, Xander, Willow.
This comic was written at around the same time that the Angel TV series was approaching production.

[edit] Continuity

Supposed to be set in Buffy Season 3. Takes place immediately after Pale Reflections, and immediately before Double Cross.

[edit] Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon

Buffy comics such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy merchandise.

[edit] Timing

Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

Location, time (if known)	Buffyverse chronology: January 1999 - Spring 1999 (non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy graphic novel: Uninvited Guests
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy comic: The Final Cut
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy graphic novel: Bad Blood
Sunnydale, 1999	B3.11 Gingerbread
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy comic: Bad Dog (by Doug Petrie)
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy graphic novel: Crash Test Demons
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy graphic novel: Pale Reflections
Sunnydale, 1999	B3.12 Helpless
Sunnydale, 1999	B3.13 The Zeppo
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy book: The Deathless
Sunnydale, 1999	B3.14 Bad Girls
Sunnydale, 1999	B3.15 Consequences
Sunnydale, 1999	B3.16 Doppelgängland
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy book: Doomsday Deck
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy book: Immortal
Sunnydale, 1999	B3.17 Enemies
Sunnydale, 1999	Buffy graphic novel: Angel: The Hollower
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Prime Evil
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Revenant
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	B3.18 Earshot
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	B3.19 Choices
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Power of Persuasion
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	B3.20 The Prom
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Resurrecting Ravana
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy books: The Gatekeeper [Trilogy]
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Return to Chaos
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Visitors
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Unnatural Selection
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Obsidian Fate
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Deep Water
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: Here Be Monsters
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy book: The Book of Fours
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	B3.21 Graduation Day, Part One
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	B3.22 Graduation Day, Part Two
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Sunnydale High Yearbook
Sunnydale, spring, 1999	Buffy comic: Double Cross

[edit] See also

Buffy comics

Buffy comics in order of Buffyverse chronology

Buffyverse & related topics
Main	Canon \| Index Chronology: Ancient \| Modern \| BS1 \| BS2 \| BS3 \| BS4/AS1 \| BS5/AS2 \| BS6/AS3 \| BS7/AS4 \| AS5 \| Future \| Flashbacks
Buffy	Characters (main) \| Characters (minor) \| Episodes \| Plot \| Quotes Comics \| DVDs \| Film \| Novels \| Pilot (unaired)
Angel	Characters (main) \| Characters (minor) \| Episodes \| Plot \| Quotes Comics \| Corrupt (unaired) \| DVDs \| Novels \| Pitch tape
Expanded Uni.	Comics \| Fray \| Novels \| Slayer timeline \| Tales of Slayer (prose) \| Tales of Slayers \| Tales of Vampires \| Video Games New: Auld Lang Syne \| Asylum \| Bad Bargain \| Blackout \| Deathless \| Go Ask Malice \| Masks \| Portal Through Time \| Spike vs Dracula
Auxiliary	Academia \| Cast & crew \| Fan made productions \| Rare promos \| Unofficial parodies \| Undeveloped productions Buffy Animated \| Card Game \| Guidebooks \| Magazines \| RPGs \| Spike movie \| Toys
Powers	Angel Investigations \| Circle of the Black Thorn \| Order of Aurelius \| The First Evil \| The Initiative \| Monsters \| Old Ones \| The Powers That Be \| Ra-Tet \| Scooby Gang \| Senior Partners \| Watchers' Council \| Wolfram & Hart
People	Adam \| Amy \| Andrew \| Angel \| Anya \| Buffy \| Caleb \| Connor \| Cordelia \| Dawn \| Darla \| Doyle \| Drusilla \| Faith \| Fred \| Giles \| Glory \| Gunn \| Harmony \| Holtz \| Illyria \| Jasmine \| Jenny \| Joyce \| Jonathan \| Kate \| Lilah \| Lindsey \| Lorne \| Master \| Mayor \| Oz \| Prof. Walsh \| Riley \| Spike \| Tara \| Warren \| Wesley \| Willow \| Xander
Places	L.A. \| Sunnydale Bronze \| Caritas \| Hellmouth \| Hyperion \| Library \| Magic Box \| Pylea \| Sunnydale High
Music	Complete Tracklist \| Use of Music in Buffy & Angel Buffy album \| Dingoes Ate My Baby \| Film \| Radio Sunnydale \| Live Fast, Die Never \| Once More, with Feeling
Key Terminology	"Demon" \| "Slayer" \| "Vampire" \| "Watcher" \| "Werewolf" \| "Witch" "Child of Senior Partners" \| Shanshu \| Sunnydale Syndrome \| Tro-Clon