The next Buffy spinoff won't be on The WB or UPN ... it will be on the shelves of comic book stores beginning June 6.

"Fray" is being released through the Dark Horse comic series, and is a spinoff of Buffy set in the "shadier side of Manhattan." The story will focus around a future slayer and professional thief.

"I wanted to do somebody who was different from Buffy," creator Joss Whedon recently told TV Guide. "The idea of magic is completely foreign to her. She's just a girl who has no idea she's the slayer.

"I've always wanted to write comic books and I'm hoping some Buffy fans who've never really explored comic books will come to 'Fray.'"