Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reveals What REALLY Happened to the Last Slayer – CBR – Comic Book Resources

Buffy Summers was never the world's only vampire slayer, and Boom Studios just revealed the shocking fate of the Slayer before her.

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer #21 by Jordie Bellaire, Jeremy Lambert, Andres Genolet, Raul Angulo & Ed Dukeshire, on sale now

The Slayer Cycle has been a constant in all versions ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer. One young woman is granted the power of the Slayer until she dies -- at which point it passes on to the next one. But the new Slayerverse just revealed there are ways around that, and that a quietly vital Slayer used one such loophole.

As revealed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer #21, the Slayer who proceeded Buffy Summers, Morgan Palmer, is actually still alive. And she's got some pretty monumental plans for the Watcher's Council.

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The Slayer before Buffy in the Boom! Studios reboot ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer is revealed to be Morgan. A dedicated and skilled young woman, Morgan actually lasted far longer than most Slayers. After realizing her powers at the age of twelve, Morgan was taken in by the Watchers and trained to become the first and last line of defense for humanity against supernatural threats. This resulted in her being stationed in Clevland, which has long been hinted to be the site of another Hellmouth similar to Sunnydale. Morgan fought for twelve hard years, surviving threat after threat. She even became friends with Anya, who supplied her with advice and gear to use in her war against the dark forces present in the world.

Anya was also who Morgan went to in the final days before her apparent demise. The two spoke about how Morgan was approaching her twenty-fifth birthday, and that no Slayer before had been able to reach that age. There's even a question of what happens to a Slayer who grows that old in this timeline. But Morgan discovered that there were no plans for her to actually find out. Instead, her Watcher Stephen secretly spoke with Dorothy, who currently runs the entire Watcher's Council. It turns out that the Watchers want a new, more malleable Slayer to take Morgan's place. To that end, Stephen and Dorothy have arranged for Morgan to attack a vampire's nest -- leaving out that it's also home to a powerful demon who they expect will easily kill an unprepared Morgan.

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