“Do me a favor,” Buffy tells her guest. “Don’t mention this to anyone.”

But this news is just too juicy to shove under the covers, so the secret is out, and so is Buffy: The vampire slayer sleeps with a woman in the next issue of the TV-series-turned-comic book, in stores this week.

“I know you didn’t just … turn gay all of a sudden,” her protégé slayer Satsu says.

“Right. Wait,” Buffy panics. “How do you know that? Did I do something wrong?”