Post by Emmie on Aug 11, 2008 1:07:19 GMT -5
I'm using this thread to collect links to all articles related to Buffy season 8. My plan is to create an archive of links to all the season 8 news I can find, starting back in 2007 and working towards the present. Anyone who'd like to help out, feel free to join in.
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July 28, 2006 - CBR News CCI Xtra: Dark Horse's Horror Line Revealed
November 22, 2006 - CBR News Vampire Slaying Never Stops: Whedon Confirms "Buffy" Season 8 Comic Book
February 15, 2007 - CBR News Slaying Alive: Whedon talks "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
February 16, 2007 - CBR News A Place For Comics: MySpace Launches Comic Book Community
April 4, 2007 - CBR News "Buffy Season 8" #2 Preview; Dark Horse/MySpace Contest Winner Announced
September 6, 2007 - CBR News Joss Whedon & Brian K. Vaughan talk "Buffy"
April 19, 2008 - CBR News NYCC: The Slayer's Tarot: Pollack and Lee talk the "Buffy" Tarot Deck
August 23, 2007 - CBR News Brian K. Vaughan has Faith in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
July 23, 2007 - CBR News Creativity and Comics Thrive in Portland
*** Dark Horse Editor in Chief talks about the comic scene in Portland. "A lot of people came here because Dark Horse was proof that you didn't have to be in New York to do comics," Allie told CBR News. "Portland provides a great environment to be creative."
July 28, 2007 - CBR News CCI: My Dinner with Joss
July 30, 2007 - CBR News CCI XTRA: Joss Whedon on "Buffy" and Beyond
October 23, 2007 - CBR News CBR @ Spike TV's Scream Awards 2007
Head admitted his exposure to Dark Horse's comic book continuation of the series, "Buffy: Season 8," was limited to what little Whedon had shared with him. "But by all accounts everyone's raving about it, it's great stuff," the actor said.
December 4, 2007 - CBR News FIRST LOOK: "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight" #9
December 5, 2007 - CBR News MAYO REPORT: October, 2007 Sales Analysis
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Long Way Home" was the top-selling graphic novel through Diamond...
December 11, 2007 - CBR News WGA STRIKE: Whedon & Mutant Enemy at the Gates
January 2, 2008 - CBR News CBR Year End Round-Up: The Best of 2007
*** Joss Nominated Best Writer of 2007 by Emmett Furey
January 8, 2008 - CBR News A Mind Interrupted: Robin Balzer's "Buffy" Story
January 27, 2008 - 2007 – THE YEAR IN THE BACK OF THE CATALOG
Yes, the "Buffy" fanbase has discovered comics, and this is one to watch for 2008. So the best-seller is a licensed book.
January 31, 2008 - CBR News MYSPACING COMICS: Top Cow Makes Waves at the Polls
February 1, 2008 - CBR News EXCLUSIVE: "Buffy Season Eight" #12 Preview
March 6, 2008 - CBR News Scott Allie Breaks Down Buffy's Big Day (Or Night?) - SPOILERS!
March 6, 2008 - CBR The Buy Pile
In "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #12, there's one of the most awkward post-sex conversations in all history, and that's hilarious. To say more would spoil too much, but Buffy's not as smart as she needs to be and gets caught with her pants down in a way that has nothing to do with the aforementioned sex. Which is okay, but nothing special. If it was for free on TV, it'd be great, but for money? Eh.
March 20, 2008 - CBR News Interviews with the Vampires: Dark Horse Editors talk "Buffy" and "Blood+"
March 24, 2008 - CBR LYING IN THE GUTTERS VOLUME 2 COLUMN 150
And in fact it's enjoyable to see Warren Ellis play off specific relationships and plot points that Joss Whedon set up and makes you wonder if he couldn't be persuaded to write something for Season Nine of "Buffy" in a few years time.
March 26, 2008 - CBR News Moline Returns to the Fray in "Buffy: Season 8"
April 3, 2008 - CBR The Buy Pile
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #13 featured an interesting team up with Dracula (the real thing, apparently) going against an ambitious gang of Asian vampires, all while Willow wheedles for details of Buffy's sexual behavior and Xander wonders about race relations. Not bad, but not very focused, as many of the issues in this "season" have been.
April 14, 2008 - CBR News 2008 Eisner Nominations Announced
Dark Horse has 12 nominations (+ 4), spearheaded by Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 (Continuing Series, New Series, Writer, Coloring) and Umbrella Academy (Limited Series, Cover Artist, Coloring).
April 18, 2008 - CBR News NYCC: Into the Fray - Hahn talks new "Buffy" arc
April 19, 2008 - CBR News NYCC Dark Horse Panel
"I've been the Buffy omic book editor from the beginning," Allie said, "and what i've always wanted to do is a tarot deck." Rachel Pollack will working with Allie on the deck, with painted art by Paul Lee. Previews of the cards will be seen on the Whedonesque web site.
"It's not a ouija board, it's a talking board," Atkins said of the Hellboy talking board. Ouija is a trademark, and the panelists joked about how their board still worked like one.
Issue #16 of Buffy will be a four-issue arc, with Whedon writing and Karl Moline on art, featuring Buffy and Fray, the future slayer. "It does begin with Buffy getting stuck in the future, and confronting Fray. ... Something very big changes for Dawn in this arc."
The Fray arc will be followed by an issue by Jeph Loeb, who will revisit the Buffy animated series that never happened. "It's Buffy sort of revisiting her high school life, but drawn in the style of the animated series that never happened."
Several one-off issues will be written by Jim KruegerJane Esponson, Doug Petrie, Drew Greenberg, and Steven DeNight. "The world of BUffy's going to change, for the worse. If the slayers are looked on as terrorists now, it's only going to get much much worse.'
April 20, 2008 - CBR News NYCC Exclusive: Dark Horse Runs Wild with "Solomon Kane"
*** Dark Horse Editor-in-Chief Scott Allie's comic
May 8, 2008 - CBR The Buy Pile
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #14 was kind of fun with its romantic entanglements and the whimsy of Dracula working alongside them. Plus, Buffy's "big" sister gets a nice moment that was very cleverly conceived, but the art remains -- at best -- serviceable and the story's pacing isn't quite as well conceived as the episodic structure that spawned this.
May 22, 2008 - MAYO REPORT: April, 2008 Sales Analysis
The only titles not by Marvel or DC in the top 50 were "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #13 in rank 11 with around 83,559 units, "Serenity: Better Days" #2 in rank 32 with approximately 56,114 units and "Angel: After the Fall" #6 with an estimated 46,663 units for April.
May 27, 2008 - CBR News EXCLUSIVE: "Buffy Season 8" #15 Preview
June 4, 2008 - CBR News Meltzer Bridges Final Crisis with “Last Will and Testament”
Meltzer’s next scheduled comic work is writing the penultimate arc of Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8” for Dark Horse Comics. The long-time Buffy and Whedonverse fan said it was too early to share any details on who and what his storyline may or may not include. “Sorry, no news to report yet because I’m near the end,” said Meltzer. “C’mon, do I really look like a spoiler?”
June 30, 2008 - CBR LYING IN THE GUTTERS VOLUME 2 COLUMN 164
The Buffy Tarot card set from Dark Horse is cancelled. No reasons are given, but I hear talk it was due to conflicts with the representatives of certain actors/actresses who appear on the cards. Apparently make believe occult nonsense is fine, but an actual item that might be used in the black arts is not. But really. You think someone would have predicted this. Somehow.
July 7, 2008 - CBR News Buffy the Vampire Slayer #16
July 18, 2008 - CBR News Tilting at Windmills
Of those six, only one of them was from a series that has started in the last twelve months (In this case, “Buffy” Season 8, and as a continuation of the TV show, probably doesn’t count either!)
July 24, 2008 - CBR News CCI: Dark Horse Horror
Allie said that there would not be a "big Buffy announcement" at San DIego, as had been rumored. An upcoming five-issue arc sees "vampires coming into vogue, which causes problems for Buffy and the Slayers."
July 26, 2008 - CBR News CCI: Joss Whedon's Guys and Dolls
"Whedon said he probably wouldn't do any more live-action 'Buffy,' because of the ability of the cast and because he gets his Buffy fix with Dark Horse's 'Buffy: Season 8.'"
July 29, 2008 - CBR News CCI: "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"
After the Fall News/IDW/Lynch
May 2, 2006 - Not Fade Away: Jeff Mariotte Talks "Angel"
September 27, 2006 - Brian Lynch Brings Sanity To The Supernatural "Spike: Asylum"
November 6, 2007 - CBR News Brian Lynch talks "Angel: After the Fall"
July 19, 2008 - IDW's "Spike: After The Fall" lands in stores this July
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COMIC BOOK RESOURCES ARCHIVE
July 28, 2006 - CBR News CCI Xtra: Dark Horse's Horror Line Revealed
November 22, 2006 - CBR News Vampire Slaying Never Stops: Whedon Confirms "Buffy" Season 8 Comic Book
February 15, 2007 - CBR News Slaying Alive: Whedon talks "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
February 16, 2007 - CBR News A Place For Comics: MySpace Launches Comic Book Community
April 4, 2007 - CBR News "Buffy Season 8" #2 Preview; Dark Horse/MySpace Contest Winner Announced
September 6, 2007 - CBR News Joss Whedon & Brian K. Vaughan talk "Buffy"
April 19, 2008 - CBR News NYCC: The Slayer's Tarot: Pollack and Lee talk the "Buffy" Tarot Deck
August 23, 2007 - CBR News Brian K. Vaughan has Faith in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
July 23, 2007 - CBR News Creativity and Comics Thrive in Portland
*** Dark Horse Editor in Chief talks about the comic scene in Portland. "A lot of people came here because Dark Horse was proof that you didn't have to be in New York to do comics," Allie told CBR News. "Portland provides a great environment to be creative."
July 28, 2007 - CBR News CCI: My Dinner with Joss
July 30, 2007 - CBR News CCI XTRA: Joss Whedon on "Buffy" and Beyond
October 23, 2007 - CBR News CBR @ Spike TV's Scream Awards 2007
Head admitted his exposure to Dark Horse's comic book continuation of the series, "Buffy: Season 8," was limited to what little Whedon had shared with him. "But by all accounts everyone's raving about it, it's great stuff," the actor said.
December 4, 2007 - CBR News FIRST LOOK: "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight" #9
December 5, 2007 - CBR News MAYO REPORT: October, 2007 Sales Analysis
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Long Way Home" was the top-selling graphic novel through Diamond...
December 11, 2007 - CBR News WGA STRIKE: Whedon & Mutant Enemy at the Gates
January 2, 2008 - CBR News CBR Year End Round-Up: The Best of 2007
*** Joss Nominated Best Writer of 2007 by Emmett Furey
January 8, 2008 - CBR News A Mind Interrupted: Robin Balzer's "Buffy" Story
January 27, 2008 - 2007 – THE YEAR IN THE BACK OF THE CATALOG
Yes, the "Buffy" fanbase has discovered comics, and this is one to watch for 2008. So the best-seller is a licensed book.
January 31, 2008 - CBR News MYSPACING COMICS: Top Cow Makes Waves at the Polls
February 1, 2008 - CBR News EXCLUSIVE: "Buffy Season Eight" #12 Preview
March 6, 2008 - CBR News Scott Allie Breaks Down Buffy's Big Day (Or Night?) - SPOILERS!
March 6, 2008 - CBR The Buy Pile
In "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #12, there's one of the most awkward post-sex conversations in all history, and that's hilarious. To say more would spoil too much, but Buffy's not as smart as she needs to be and gets caught with her pants down in a way that has nothing to do with the aforementioned sex. Which is okay, but nothing special. If it was for free on TV, it'd be great, but for money? Eh.
March 20, 2008 - CBR News Interviews with the Vampires: Dark Horse Editors talk "Buffy" and "Blood+"
March 24, 2008 - CBR LYING IN THE GUTTERS VOLUME 2 COLUMN 150
And in fact it's enjoyable to see Warren Ellis play off specific relationships and plot points that Joss Whedon set up and makes you wonder if he couldn't be persuaded to write something for Season Nine of "Buffy" in a few years time.
March 26, 2008 - CBR News Moline Returns to the Fray in "Buffy: Season 8"
April 3, 2008 - CBR The Buy Pile
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #13 featured an interesting team up with Dracula (the real thing, apparently) going against an ambitious gang of Asian vampires, all while Willow wheedles for details of Buffy's sexual behavior and Xander wonders about race relations. Not bad, but not very focused, as many of the issues in this "season" have been.
April 14, 2008 - CBR News 2008 Eisner Nominations Announced
Dark Horse has 12 nominations (+ 4), spearheaded by Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 (Continuing Series, New Series, Writer, Coloring) and Umbrella Academy (Limited Series, Cover Artist, Coloring).
April 18, 2008 - CBR News NYCC: Into the Fray - Hahn talks new "Buffy" arc
April 19, 2008 - CBR News NYCC Dark Horse Panel
"I've been the Buffy omic book editor from the beginning," Allie said, "and what i've always wanted to do is a tarot deck." Rachel Pollack will working with Allie on the deck, with painted art by Paul Lee. Previews of the cards will be seen on the Whedonesque web site.
"It's not a ouija board, it's a talking board," Atkins said of the Hellboy talking board. Ouija is a trademark, and the panelists joked about how their board still worked like one.
Issue #16 of Buffy will be a four-issue arc, with Whedon writing and Karl Moline on art, featuring Buffy and Fray, the future slayer. "It does begin with Buffy getting stuck in the future, and confronting Fray. ... Something very big changes for Dawn in this arc."
The Fray arc will be followed by an issue by Jeph Loeb, who will revisit the Buffy animated series that never happened. "It's Buffy sort of revisiting her high school life, but drawn in the style of the animated series that never happened."
Several one-off issues will be written by Jim KruegerJane Esponson, Doug Petrie, Drew Greenberg, and Steven DeNight. "The world of BUffy's going to change, for the worse. If the slayers are looked on as terrorists now, it's only going to get much much worse.'
April 20, 2008 - CBR News NYCC Exclusive: Dark Horse Runs Wild with "Solomon Kane"
*** Dark Horse Editor-in-Chief Scott Allie's comic
May 8, 2008 - CBR The Buy Pile
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #14 was kind of fun with its romantic entanglements and the whimsy of Dracula working alongside them. Plus, Buffy's "big" sister gets a nice moment that was very cleverly conceived, but the art remains -- at best -- serviceable and the story's pacing isn't quite as well conceived as the episodic structure that spawned this.
May 22, 2008 - MAYO REPORT: April, 2008 Sales Analysis
The only titles not by Marvel or DC in the top 50 were "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #13 in rank 11 with around 83,559 units, "Serenity: Better Days" #2 in rank 32 with approximately 56,114 units and "Angel: After the Fall" #6 with an estimated 46,663 units for April.
May 27, 2008 - CBR News EXCLUSIVE: "Buffy Season 8" #15 Preview
June 4, 2008 - CBR News Meltzer Bridges Final Crisis with “Last Will and Testament”
Meltzer’s next scheduled comic work is writing the penultimate arc of Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8” for Dark Horse Comics. The long-time Buffy and Whedonverse fan said it was too early to share any details on who and what his storyline may or may not include. “Sorry, no news to report yet because I’m near the end,” said Meltzer. “C’mon, do I really look like a spoiler?”
June 30, 2008 - CBR LYING IN THE GUTTERS VOLUME 2 COLUMN 164
The Buffy Tarot card set from Dark Horse is cancelled. No reasons are given, but I hear talk it was due to conflicts with the representatives of certain actors/actresses who appear on the cards. Apparently make believe occult nonsense is fine, but an actual item that might be used in the black arts is not. But really. You think someone would have predicted this. Somehow.
July 7, 2008 - CBR News Buffy the Vampire Slayer #16
July 18, 2008 - CBR News Tilting at Windmills
Of those six, only one of them was from a series that has started in the last twelve months (In this case, “Buffy” Season 8, and as a continuation of the TV show, probably doesn’t count either!)
July 24, 2008 - CBR News CCI: Dark Horse Horror
Allie said that there would not be a "big Buffy announcement" at San DIego, as had been rumored. An upcoming five-issue arc sees "vampires coming into vogue, which causes problems for Buffy and the Slayers."
July 26, 2008 - CBR News CCI: Joss Whedon's Guys and Dolls
"Whedon said he probably wouldn't do any more live-action 'Buffy,' because of the ability of the cast and because he gets his Buffy fix with Dark Horse's 'Buffy: Season 8.'"
July 29, 2008 - CBR News CCI: "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"
After the Fall News/IDW/Lynch
May 2, 2006 - Not Fade Away: Jeff Mariotte Talks "Angel"
September 27, 2006 - Brian Lynch Brings Sanity To The Supernatural "Spike: Asylum"
November 6, 2007 - CBR News Brian Lynch talks "Angel: After the Fall"
July 19, 2008 - IDW's "Spike: After The Fall" lands in stores this July
