Buffy Scholar/Critic

Mr. Brendan L. Heidenfels is an undergraduate in New York University's Cinema Studies program. He has written on Jerry Bruckheimer, childrens' film, the vampire genre, and the theme of created family in the Whedonverse. As well as having written a novel and several screenplays, he also writes a column for the website www.generallogan.com/Floor under the pen name "RathBandu." His other interests include comic books, archetypes in contemporary film, the blockbuster, and modern television history & culture. He lives alone in New York City.

Heldenfels, Brendan. Slayers, Pre-Slayers, Preachers, and Hellraisers: Comic Influences on the Buffyverse (paper accepted for but not presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, May 2004).