- Script
- Brian Lynch
- Pencils
- Franco Urru
- Inks
- Franco Urru
- Colors
- Ilaria Traversi
- Letters
- Neil Uyetake
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Puppet Spike; Puppet Lorne; Puppet Betta George; Horatio Hornblower; Firestarter; Tok Shinobu; Fauna; Snuff the Magic Dragon; Puppet Angelus
- Synopsis
- Spike and the gang do a little "research" to learn what the Smile Time gang is up to. Unfortunately for them, they don't know that the Smile Time gang has created a Puppet Angelus.
The Smile Time Puppets appeared in the episode "Smile Time" during season 5 of the Angel TV series. This mini-series is set after both Spike: Asylum and Angel: Auld Lang Syne mini-series by IDW publishing. According to the mentions in the story it would be set four months after Spike: Asylum storyline. It also would have to be set sometime before the ending of the Season 5 Angel TV show in the Spike timeline.