Rupert Giles

Rupert Giles is one of comics' most beloved supporting presences — the steady, scholarly heart of Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, where he's kept distinguished company alongside Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Angel, and Cordelia Chase across a run stretching from 1998 all the way to 2015. Introduced in the Modern Age by Andi Watson and Joe Bennett, Giles anchored the Buffyverse on the page just as the franchise was finding its cultural footing, and his appearances across Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and the sweeping Omnibus collection speak to a character whose presence was anything but incidental. With a key issue already to his name and nearly two decades of comics history, he's a figure that any serious Buffyverse collector will want to track down — the kind of character who gives a universe its depth and gravity.