Spike created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Special thanks to Debbie Olshan at Fox Worldwide Publishing for her invaluable assistance.
This issue is a variant of Spike: Shadow Puppets (IDW, 2007 series) #1 [Cover A].
There exist further variants:
Spike and Lorne travel to Japan to stop the new incarnation of the Smile Time Puppets.
Indexer Notes
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.