Buffy and Angel return to the ordering cycle
Dynamite did not simply postpone Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 and Angel #1. The publisher cancelled the existing retailer orders and will solicit both debut issues again, meaning shops will need new catalogue information before ordering their final quantities. CEO and publisher Nick Barrucci said Kelly Thompson's connected story grew more ambitious and required more pages. He promised significant increases in story-page count without a higher price, but the statement supplied neither the revised counts nor the replacement sale dates.
Firefly and The X-Files split off
The other two 20th Television licences have different outcomes. Mark Russell and Lorenzo Re's Firefly relaunch has been pushed out of its September solicitation and has no new date. Joe Harris and Riley Brown's The X-Files, by contrast, now has December as its planned start. Grouping the four changes matters because they came in one publisher update, but readers should not flatten them into a single delay: two books are being expanded and resolicited, one is indefinitely displaced and one has a new month.
What remains unconfirmed
Barrucci is directly placed to explain Dynamite's production and solicitation choices, although his account of quality remains promotional rather than independently measurable. The useful next evidence will be revised listings showing page counts, prices, creative credits and firm dates for Buffy and Angel, plus a replacement solicitation for Firefly. Until those appear, retailers cannot rely on the original orders and fans cannot infer that extra pages have already solved the scheduling problem. The X-Files has the clearest current destination, but December is still a planned launch rather than proof that the issue has shipped.