It's 1996, and Buffy Summers has just accepted her role as the vampire Slayer. After the destruction of her high school, she flees to Las Vegas to sort out her life. Meanwhile, Watcher Rupert Giles wonders why on earth his Slayer hasn't arrived in Sunnydale. This comic takes you where the TV show never did, back to the roots of everything, in the summer before Buffy arrived in Sunnydale. And there's a tall, dark, and handsome stranger keeping an eye on her during those dangerous nights in Vegas. This digital publication was originally published as Buffy the Vampire Slayer #51–#54, in November 2002 to February 2003. It is collected in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 1.