Question about the Buffy TPB

[Hallow Thorn]

*The Long Way Home TPB #1-4
*The Chain – is this not in a TPB ? – so I have to buy this issue on its own? (I have it)
*No Future for You TPB # 6-9
*Anywhere But Here #10 – is this not in a TPB ? – so I have to buy this issue on its own?
*A Beautiful Sunset #11 – is this not in a TPB ? – so I have to buy this issue on its own?
*Wolves at the Gate TPB #12-15
*Time of Your Life TPB #16-19

Thanks for the help...

[Rebecca]

The Long Way Home TPB includes Issues 1-5 (The Chain)
No Future For You TPB includes Issues 6-10 (Anywhere but Here)
Wolves at the Gate TPB includes Issues 11-15 (A Beautiful Sunset)
Time of Your Life TPB includes Issues 16-20 (After These Messages)

Basically they cover the arc and the corresponding stand alone issue. After Issue #20, the remaining arcs should all be 5-issues apiece, so no stand alones.

Hope This Helps.

[Skytteflickan88]

tpb 1 issue 1-5
tpb 2 issue 6-10
tpb 3 issue 11-15

and it probably goes on like that....


EDIT- ops, not quick enough.

[Hallow Thorn]

Thank-you so much 'touched' and 'Skytteflickan88' .... so you are saying after Issue #20 there will be no stand alones that I will have to get because they are not in the new TBP ?

[Rebecca]

Nov 23, 2008 16:07:53 GMT -5 Hallow Thorn said:

Thank-you so much 'touched' and 'Skytteflickan88' .... so you are saying after Issue #20 there will be no stand alones that I will have to get because they are not in the new TBP ?

No, there will be no stand alones after "After These Messages" for the rest of the season. All stand alones are available in TPB with their corresponding arc.

[Hallow Thorn]

Nov 23, 2008 16:13:10 GMT -5 Rebecca said:

Nov 23, 2008 16:07:53 GMT -5 Hallow Thorn said:

Thank-you so much 'touched' and 'Skytteflickan88' .... so you are saying after Issue #20 there will be no stand alones that I will have to get because they are not in the new TBP ?

No, there will be no stand alones after "After These Messages" for the rest of the season. All stand alones are available in TPB with their corresponding arc.

OK.... thanks now I understand ... I was never really that big on the stand alones anyway.. but it's good that they always come/came in TPB.. Thanks again.

[Tyler Austin "tiewashere"]

Nov 23, 2008 16:18:32 GMT -5 Hallow Thorn said:

Nov 23, 2008 16:13:10 GMT -5 Rebecca said:

No, there will be no stand alones after "After These Messages" for the rest of the season. All stand alones are available in TPB with their corresponding arc.

OK.... thanks now I understand ... I was never really that big on the stand alones anyway.. but it's good that they always come/came in TPB.. Thanks again.

I don't know why they said there would be no standalones after issue 20 because there is. So far, issues 20-23 are standalones.

But, issues 21-23 (which will all be in a TPB along with 24 and 25) have a same central theme. A standalone just basically means there is no "to be continued" at the end. Issues 21-23 tell stories of two characters at a time. Satsu and Kennedy, Buffy and Andrew, Giles and Faith...yada yada.

[wenxina]

Because #21 to #25 is technically an arc. As you said, they will all share a central theme. So after #20, there are no true standalones. The final 3 arcs will all take up 5 books each.

[darthrosenberg9]

Wow. That surprises me. I thought for sure they'd keep doing the "4 and a standalone" format. It seems really strange to me that they'd mess with this format that they've established.

And here I still am trying to get all of these issues and arcs to somehow equal 22. I think I may have to give up on that mission; I have no idea whatsoever how to translate a 5-issue arc into episodes. Up until this point, I've been telling myself that each 4-issue arc equals a two-parter, and that each standalone equals one full episode. Now I've given up.

[wenxina]

Just realize that essentially, we're at the halfway-point of the season right now.
Meaning around episode 10-12, give or take. But what I've come to realize is that trying to fit S8 into the conventional 22 ep season doesn't really work out too well.
But yeah, the last 3 arcs have been confirmed to be 5-parters, so no more true standalones past #20.