History ComicBook / BuffyTheVampireSlayerBoomStudios

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Inverted. In the original show, Angel seeing Buffy's struggles as the Slayer was the catalyst that convinced him to make something of himself and become a hero. Here, Angel has already been active as a hero in Los Angeles for some time before his first appearance.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** Drusilla and Spike's dynamic has changed significantly, with a sane Dru being portrayed as the clear dominant in the relationship, and Spike being the (albeit [[ServileSnarker snarky]]) underling rather than the caretaker. Drusilla also unambiguously holds little genuine affection for Spike; she puts him down constantly, mocks his preferred nickname, and [[spoiler: stabs him in order to open the Hellmouth with no remorse. Their breakup happens not because Drusilla foresaw Spike's infatuation with Buffy, but rather because ''Spike'' left ''her'', having felt betrayed and abandoned by Drusilla once she opened the hellmouth.]]
** As Willow is an out-and-proud lesbian from the start, her early-series crush on Xander is written out, though they're still very close platonic friends since childhood, to the point where [[spoiler:Xander dying]] causes Willow to go out of control.
** Rather than her early-series crush on Angel, Cordelia meets and develops a crush on Spike--whom she barely exchanged a word with in the original series.
** Robin and Buffy go from friendly co-workers and allies who went on a single date, to full-blown high school crushes complete with a MeetCute and plenty of CrushBlush.

* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler:Morgan Palmer, a former Slayer. She describes her Watcher as having stuck "a thousand knives in [her] back over the years", and what pushed her over the edge was when she overheard her Watcher and the head of the Council plotting to have her murdered because they felt that at 25, she was "too old" to be a Slayer. During her research to find a way to escape, she came across Anya, and the two set up a plan to fake Morgan's death - she would pretend to go along with the Council's plan but fake her death instead, and then she and Anya would plot to destroy the Watchers from there, even Giles]].
** [[spoiler:Anya herself, as it turns out - in this universe it's revealed that Anya was formerly the last female Watcher permitted to supervise a Slayer in the field and was punished for "allowing" her Slayer to survive to 22 years of age, leading her to a vendetta against the Council.[[/note]]

* OffModel: This tends to happen in later issues, which go for a more "cartoon-y" look. [[https://i2.wp.com/sequentialplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Buffy_005_PRESS_5.jpg?zoom=2&resize=598%2C915&ssl=1 Take this page]], for example, where Buffy's face has gone oddly flat and a bit {{gonk}}.

** {{Justified}} - [[https://twitter.com/ZacBeThompson/status/1330961725907091456 the writers were informed that the series had been cancelled while they were in the middle of scripting the issue]], and had to scramble to wrap things up as best as they could.

** Ethan Rayne is already dead when the series begins, and (being a ghost) is still a teenager, and companion to Wesley rather than a villain. His animosity with Giles is still there, though, as he blames Giles for getting him killed.

** Drusilla's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} nature is gone, replaced with a ruthless and ambitious vampire... though with a number of NotSoAboveItAll moments.

** Kendra is far less awkward, more forward and unlike her original counterpart, fully at home and integrated in normal society. She's also now [[AdaptationalSexuality lesbian (or at least bisexual)]], whereas in the show she was flustered around Xander and called Angel cute.

** Ethan Rayne is already dead when the series begins, and still a teenager, and is a (seemingly) much less antagonistic ghostly companion to Wesley. His animosity with Giles is still there, though, as he blames Giles for getting him killed.

** Drusilla and Spike's dynamic has changed significantly, with a sane Dru being portrayed as the clear dominant in the relationship, and Spike being the (albeit [[ServileSnarker snarky]]) underling rather than the caretaker. Drusilla also unambiguously holds little genuine affection for Spike; she puts him down constantly, mocks his preferred nickname, and [[spoiler: stabs him in order to open the hellmouth with no remorse. Their breakup happens not because Drusilla foresaw Spike's infatuation with Buffy, but rather because ''Spike'' left ''her'', having felt betrayed and abandoned by Drusilla once she opened the hellmouth.]]