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While they wait for the Buffy season8 #6 this week (the first of the Faith arc), Wizard Entertainment analyze our favorite slayer and Dark Horse Comics show us a preview of the next covers.... 
WIZARD INSIDER: FAITH
As the spotlight falls on the vampish bad
girl this week in Buffy #6, let's put the femme fatale under the
microscope to see what makes this psycho slayer tick
It pays to
have a little Faith, as the fan-fave bad girl Slayer returns to the
Buffyverse this week in a four-part arc beginning in Buffy the Vampire
Slayer #6! Playing Watcher to the outcast Slayer and making his
creative debut on the series with current artist Georges Jeanty is
superstar writer and “BTVS” devotee Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man,
Ex Machina), who describes the super-powerful, super-sexy Faith as “my
favorite character from my favorite show ever! Five by five, True
Believers!” Here’s a little Faith 101 to shed some light on the stellar
Slayer.
SLAYER INTERRUPTED
South Boston native Faith Lehane
was the third Slayer to take up the stake in Joss Whedon’s Buffyverse
following Buffy’s temporary demise and the subsequent murder of
substitute Slayer Kendra Young. Raised in a broken home, Faith quickly
adapted to the bare-knuckle, violent lifestyle befitting a Slayer. “I
love Buffy, but I have a hard time identifying with characters who
almost always make the right decisions,” says Vaughan. “It’s much more
fun to write about morally complex kids like Faith.”
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
Faith
toed the line between good and evil for some time, but it was in Season
Three’s “Bad Girls” episode that the Slayer’s carefree attitude finally
took her over the edge when she accidentally stakes Sunnydale’s human
Deputy Mayor Allan Finch! The murder shook Buffy’s morals, but Faith
took an apathetic approach, and later joined the evil Mayor’s crusade
for world domination.
A STAKE TO PICK WITH BUFFY
Following
some moral support from Angel and a willful stint in jail for her past
crimes, Faith later rejoined the Scooby ranks to take on the First Evil
in Season Seven. Buffy’s decision to stand by her estranged ally put
the bad blood between these two
at ease—if only until the apocalypse was over.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Appropriately
titled “No Future for You,” Vaughan’s arc sets up a fatal throwdown
pitting Faith against rogue Slayer Genevieve, a Paris Hilton wannabe
with more interest in partying than killing vamps! “When [former
Watcher Rupert] Giles needs an operative to take down an evil Slayer by
any means necessary, there’s only one woman to call,” boasts Vaughan.
“Violence, mayhem and a few jokes ensue.”
And
what about remebering all the great covers for the Faith acr, including
the new ones for #9? I really love them, don't you? 
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