Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow and Tara is a trade paperback

Trade paperback (comics)

In comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...

 anthology collection published by Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics

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 in 2002 and based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The volume collects Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow & Tara - Wannablessedbe, originally published in 2001 as a one issue special, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow & Tara - Wilderness, originally published in 2002 as a two issue limited series

Limited series

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General description

Features the one-shot WannaBlessedBe (drawn by Terry Moore

Terry Moore (comics)

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 and Eric Powell) and the Wilderness story (drawn by AJ), as well as a story from 'Dark Horse Extra' entitled "Demonology Menagerie" (story and art by Andi Watson

Andi Watson

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).

Story description

...The envy of a girl toward Willow and Tara's relationship becomes dangerous to Sunnydale when neither Buffy nor the rest of the gang are available to help the young couple.

Wilderness #1

Willow, Tara, and Dawn become involved in mystery after coming across a plot of cursed earth near the Pacific Coast Highway. The forest animals are controlled and seem to be killing those who wander too far away from the highway. The girls try to put an end to the force corrupting this natural order.

Wilderness #2

The forest has been the site of a number of killings by creatures great and small. Willow, Tara and Dawn face a new enemy, Greenjack

Jack in the green

A Jack in the Green is a participant in traditional English May Day parades and other May celebrations, who wears a large, foliage-covered, garland-like framework, usually pyramidal or conical in shape, which covers his body from head to foot...

, and hope to leave the forest intact.

Continuity

• Set during Buffy season 6.
• Featured in the Buffy,the Vampire Slayer- Annual:2004

Canonical issues

Buffy comics

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics refer to comic books based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While many of these comics were published when the television show was on air they are not all considered canonical and often deal with characters who do not appear on in the television...

 are not usually considered by fans as canonical. However, unlike fan fiction

Fan fiction

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, overviews summarizing their story, written early in the writing process, were approved by both Fox and Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon

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(or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy merchandise.