Spike: Shadow Puppets

Spike: Shadow Puppets
Cover of #1 by David Messina.
Publication information
Publisher	IDW Publishing
Publication date	June 2007 - October 2007
Number of issues	4
Main character(s)	Spike Lorne
Creative team
Writer(s)	Brian Lynch
Artist(s)	Franco Urru

Spike: Shadow Puppets is a limited series comic book based on the Angel television series. The Spike centric comic was released by IDW Publishing from June 2007 through October 2007. The four issues were collected together in a single trade paperback in December, 2007.

Angel comics such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy merchandise.