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Post by Emmie on Jan 14, 2010 18:37:25 GMT -5
All the questions posted above for this second round have been sent to Scott! Everyone feel free to post another question.
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Post by collex on Jan 14, 2010 19:29:34 GMT -5
Scott, I want to know why you decided to spoil the reveal on the cover of the TPB (assuming you did before this week)? You know many people doesn't read single issue before reading the TPB, so why consiously spoil the surprise for them? Sure, the cover is beautiful ( one of my favorite so far. Buffy seems, well in trance or in pleasure), but I still wonder why spoil it for the casual reader
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Post by bamph on Jan 14, 2010 20:53:27 GMT -5
In the new issue we learn that Twilight has captured Faith,Giles and Andrew. All three have a interesting connection to Angel.Angel saved Faith's soul.Angel was refused help by Giles with Fred.Andrew spoke for Buffy in Damage and The Girl In Question where he learned where he supposedly stood with Buffy and her group plus that she was dating his enemy although we know she really wasn't.Considering Angel is Twilight,should we read anything into Twilight's choice of prisoners?
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Jan 14, 2010 21:23:32 GMT -5
Something that alarms Angel fans as much as the things he's done, is the total lack of empathy he's displayed while doing them. He's done or tried to do terrible things to the Slayers, Buffy and Willow, and humanity in general (the vampy cats, the "cool vampires" meme). We know Angel might be willing to do terrible things in the name of preventing a much greater catastrophe, but it would tear him up to have to do so.
His attitude has been utterly cold-hearted, arrogant, and even occasionally gleeful ("I want to see what happens"). And he's admitted that he knows Buffy and the others are fighting for good. It's a terrible moral situation Joss has written him into. Will as much care be devoted to explaining his heartlessness as to explaining his actions?
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Post by bishopcruz on Jan 14, 2010 22:10:24 GMT -5
I know this issue was a week late, does that mean that 32 will come out on Feb 13th now, or is it on Feb 6 as I originally saw it listed?
Kinda a boring question, I know, but I hate running to the comic shop just to find out an issue has been delayed.
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Post by thomas on Jan 14, 2010 22:33:35 GMT -5
Will the other "Angel" characters (Gunn, Lorne, Connor, Illyria) be acknowledged at any point after Angel is revealed to be Twilight? I'm curious to know how they feel about their team leader doing the things he's been doing.
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Post by wenxina on Jan 14, 2010 23:13:35 GMT -5
This is entirely a book-keeping question. From what you've told us so far, it sounds like Brad's arc is now finalized at four issues. Or did I get that wrong? Coz the most recent solicitation released (yes, that one) still listed #34 as "Part 3 (of 5)". Nifty idea about a Simone-centric issue, though. Would be very interesting to see things from the perspective of a Slayer that defected from the Slayer Army to form her own renegade band of Slayer Supremacists.
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Jan 15, 2010 1:14:23 GMT -5
I’m curious about how you guys can use the IDW characters without telling IDW, but still expect there to be no continuity issues. What if Spike loses and eye in an issue of IDW and he gets deeply depressed, but a few days later, you release a comic where Spike has a eye, and is very non-depressed.
How do you guys avoid something like that happening?
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Jan 15, 2010 1:27:21 GMT -5
When Joss and Brian planned After the Fall, did Joss do so with Twilight's identity in mind?
This might be a hard one for you to answer directly, but it's bugging the heck outta me so I had to ask somebody.
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Post by Joe on Jan 15, 2010 6:45:40 GMT -5
Will Oz and Riley be sticking around for the last couple arcs? I know Oz has no intentions of leaving Tibet, but it doesn't look like Buffy and gang is going anywhere either.
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Post by sosa lola on Jan 15, 2010 6:45:42 GMT -5
I heard about Spike showing up in S8, and I have a small request for Joss. One of the reasons I disliked S7 was how Spike isolated himself from all the other characters, except for Buffy. I'd love to have Spike interact with more characters in S8, especially Xander and Dawn. But mostly I prefer Xander. Xander and Spike have always been great on screen and it would be interesting to see them in panels. I'm aware that there might be no space for that, but I'd really appreciate it if you mention it to Joss.
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Post by stormwreath on Jan 15, 2010 11:50:33 GMT -5
Way back in the first arc, we saw that General Voll had the Twilight symbol scarred into his chest. But the scar was really old and faded, as if he'd had it for years and years... as if he became a follower of Twilight in the years when Buffy was still in Sunnydale.
I'm not going to ask anything spoilery, just one simple question: is my interpretation of his scar being such an old one correct?
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Post by stormwreath on Jan 15, 2010 14:56:14 GMT -5
Since I didn't get chance to participate in the 'Goddesses and Monsters' Q&A because it was held over Christmas and I wasn't near a computer, any chance I can sneak in an extra question and pretend it was for the previous thread? It's a very simple one: Scott - the blurb on page 2 of each comic giving us the story so far. Do you write that, or does Joss, or does the writer of each individual arc?
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Post by vampireinrug on Jan 15, 2010 19:09:33 GMT -5
Scott, I'm wondering why the government of the Buffyverse hasn't done anything about the sudden popularity of vampires. We know that the government is well aware of the supernatural world. All the way back in season one those FBI dudes took Marcie, not to mention that the Initiative dates all the way back to World War II, and the Initiative clearly did not like, or approve of vampires. Given this, why aren't the authorities doing something about it? Will this get touched upon in the story?
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Jan 16, 2010 9:57:57 GMT -5
One of the big hang-ups of Buffy fans who don't like season 8 is that they think the scale is too big, leading to stuff they consider silly or self-indulgent. It's hard to get them to accept that comics are a different medium than TV, with a different kind of storytelling, and that Joss & Friends are writing a comic here and not a series of TV storyboards.
How close has season 8 been to the story Joss had planned to tell if he'd done an 8th season of the TV show, or a movie? Aside from "special effects budget" issues, is this pretty much where he always intended the story to go?
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Post by bamph on Jan 16, 2010 10:48:22 GMT -5
Given that Angel is Twilight and Spike is showing up.As editor,what does it feel like jumping in full force now on the shipper issues in the story?You've got the hardcore Angel fans vs. the hardcore Spike fans and the Buffy/Angel shippers vs. the Buffy/Spike shippers.You've got both sides fearing for how their character is going to be treated and come out of this.You've got both shipper groups still arguing and fighting over those issues. The Twilight identity and news Spike will be in the story has ratchet up the tensions between both sides even more.Some examples being.
1)Lack of trust in how Joss is going to use Spike and Angel and how they are going to come off.There is already some of that with Twilight being the Big Bad of the season.
2)The arguments between the two shipper groups about whether Buffy loves Spike or is actually in love with Spike romantically like she is in love with Angel.Basically a firm definitive answer to the,"I love you","No, you don't. But thanks for saying it."
3)Angel being evil must mean Spike is riding in to help Buffy save the day and validate the Buffy/Spike ship over Buffy/Angel and one ship is going to be coming out of this in better condition then the other.The Angel being the bad guy clears the way for Buffy/Spike in the future argument.
4)Fear one vampire or the other is going to take over the story.Something non-fans of Spike and Angel and the two ships are fearful of too.
You've been involved in the Buffy fandom for years now.Given some of your experiences,how does it feel to be having Joss actively taking the story into this powder keg of a situation and as editor,do you have any concernes about it?
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Post by sosa lola on Jan 16, 2010 11:11:45 GMT -5
Some fans are scared that with Angel and Spike showing up, the other characters will be pushed to the background (exactly like in the last episodes of S7), will popular characters like Xander and Giles, who tend to get neglected a lot, still have important roles in future issues?
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Post by lmblack21 on Jan 16, 2010 13:08:32 GMT -5
So here's my next question...and thanks again for taking the time!
Riley has been around and been a pretty big part of the comics. I'm so happy to see he hasn't been retconned into being evil and he often seems sort of....wistful as regards Buffy.
My question is, are we going to find out what happened to Riley's wife and how he came to be working with Buffy again? The lack of any information here seems odd, to say the least.
-Luc
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Post by wenxina on Jan 16, 2010 13:31:03 GMT -5
Tracking along with my previous question, where is Joss in terms of turning in his scripts for his grand finale? I know you said that it'll probably be cutting it tight, even with the two months off, so that means that he should be turning in scripts around now-ish? Last I read on your Twitter sometime last week-ish, you were looking at Georges' pages for #33 (that good huh?), which does sound like things are tight.
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Post by martodd on Jan 16, 2010 14:16:12 GMT -5
Hi, Scott! I participate in those Q&A sessions for the first time and it is really, really amazing and exciting for me to be a part of it! So here is mine Will the Angel/Faith relationship be explored? They were really close in Angel season 4 and Faith did an amazing thing for him. I really loved the idea of them being best friends who can always understand each other. Will that be shown in the issues to come? Whatever his motives are… will we see Faith trying to understand?
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