With Buffy writers Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie contributing to the follow-up to Tales of the Slayer - The Broken Bottle of Djinn - Dark Horse Comics are promising tight continuity with TV Buffy from now on.

"With Season Seven just now premiering on the tube and the comic series wrapping up a post-Season Six storyline, this is the closest we've ever been in locking our continuity to theirs," says editor Scott Allie.

Since [season three] I've been playing a constant catchup game, trying to be as current as I could be with the comics, without giving away any secrets I knew from working with Joss or Doug or Jane... [but] when issue 47 came out, it actually took place after the most recent episode of the TV show!"

The Broken Bottle of Djinn is a tale of two Slayers: One a young girl slumming through the bleak streets of 1930's New York City, the other parading through the brighter streets of 1990's Sunnydale.

Fan-favourite cover-artist Jeff Matsuda's first Buffy story pages illustrate Jane's story. Meanwhile, Doug Petrie again teams with his dream artist Gene Colan to show a Slayer facing the same creature as Buffy, but sixty years earlier.