"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has always cultivated a solid gay fanbase in both its television and print incarnations. Now the "Buffy" comics series, which picked up where the popular series left off, is introducing its first gay male slayer.
Out magazine reports that the new character, Billy, will be introduced in Season 9. Drew Greenberg, who collaborated with "Buffy" writer and producer Jane Espenson on the project, tells Out that Billy "is someone who sees a need in his hometown and steps up to fill the void, even at great personal risk."
For "Buffy" fans who know that only women can be "called" (i.e. chosen by fate) to become slayers, Greenberg adds: "He may not have the actual powers of the Slayers, but he's determined to be his own kind of hero, one who's sort of modeled after those who do have the power, and he sets out to make due with what he has. In the process, I think he hopes to follow the lead of all the strong, powerful Slayers who came before him and live up to the standard they set."
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