SPOILERS: Scott Allie Q&A for #24 *COMPLETE*

[parabola]

Apr 3, 2009 11:42:15 GMT -5 Skytteflickan88 said:

I'm kinda stealing this question from parabola but;

The short prolouge to Haunted, will it be included in Omnibus 7?

Haha, thanks for asking ... frees me up to also pose this question for Scott:

In my nerdiest, detail-obsessed voice: when Willow & Tara - Wilderness was released, the inside cover said it took place *during* Season 6. In Omnibus 7, the table of contents (according to scan on Amazon) shows it placed before Buffy's resurrection. Just wondering if this updated timeline placement was indeed intentional? (not that it's really important, but I'm a curious person!)

[snizapman6294]

Can you give us any hint as to what the Brad Meltzer arc is called or who it centers around?

[patxshand]

Fillworthe meant active Watchers.

What about Fillworthe makes him an active Watcher?

[trunkstheslayer]

Ok, here's a generic question we typically ask in these: Since we have the title for 26 (Retreat) I've got a dual-question: Assuming that's an issue title and not the name of the whole arc, can we have 27's title? Or is it actually the arc's title?

[wenxina]

Apr 4, 2009 19:25:52 GMT -5 patxshand said:

Fillworthe meant active Watchers.

What about Fillworthe makes him an active Watcher?

I think what Scott meant was that Filworthe meant active Watchers at the time of the First's attack on the Watchers' Council. Filworthe was still an active Watcher at that time, but Wesley's father was presumably retired at that point, hence not active.

[Emmie]

Okay, I've sent the last round of questions to Scott. I'll post his responses as soon as possible

Locking down the thread.

[Emmie]

> Okay, here's the last batch:
>
> 24. cheryl: I noticed that Faith called Giles "G" in the comic and in the live series this is something that Xander called Giles, not Faith. It would be the same with Xander using Faith's famous phrase "5x5" earlier in the comics. Is this intentional or are the writers getting mixed up on who said what, in the live series?
> In short, the 5x5 phrase is part of Faith's story, not Xanders. The "G" reference for Giles belongs to Xander, rather than Faith. There are more examples of this happening but I hope you get my point. Why the switch up?

I'm sorry, still at the convention, and don't remember all of this well enough to answer thoroughly. Faith calling Giles "G" just sounds so right I never would have caught it as "wrong." Apparently neither did Joss. I don't specifically remember the Xander "5x5" comment, but I'd assume it was in a somewhat ironic context, no?


> 25. AndrewCrossett: Can you give us any information on the groups that are providing the Slayers with the legitimate part of their funding? Are they well-informed enough to stay loyal to Buffy and her girls during this time of bad publicity?

Things are falling apart rapidly for the Slayers.

> 26. marcos.damata: I don't know if it's too much off-topic here, but is Joss still involved with Angel comics? After the Fall was obviously canon, since Joss was plotting it. But in Aftermath, it doesn't seem to have any Joss input in there. In case Angel/Spike comes to guest in Season 8 (or 9), will the events of Aftermath be considered (that is, assuming that the events of Angel After the Fall and Spike After the Fall will)?

Not for me to say how involved Joss is with Angel anymore, or whether or not the new story is canon. Chris Ryall and I were writing back and forth this weekend while I'm at this convention, talking about the practicality of keeping our storylines separate. I think canon is something we'll only all be able to really understand in hindsight, as we pursue our separate storylines.

> 27. sosa lola: Will we get a scene where the core four (Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles) share one panel together? One whole scene with only those four in it? 'Cause I miss them all together so much.

Can't say. You'll see them all together again soon, but I can't recall if there's a scene of JUST the four of them. But they get very much involved in each other's lives again.

> 28. parabola: In my nerdiest, detail-obsessed voice: when Willow & Tara - Wilderness was released, the inside cover said it took place *during* Season 6. In Omnibus 7, the table of contents (according to scan on Amazon) shows it placed before Buffy's resurrection. Just wondering if this updated timeline placement was indeed intentional? (not that it's really important, but I'm a curious person!)

When we were putting together the Omnibuses, it was tough figuring out the sequence of stories that would make the most sense and read the best. The Willow Tara stories were particularly difficult. When I did the comics in the first place, it made sense to put that one simply sometime during Season 6, but that didn't address how it related to the other comics. In putting together the Omnibus, we felt it added some drama to show the characters living their lives without Buffy around. We didn't see anything IN the stories that contradicted that notion; we didn't take the inside cover into account, but I think that's okay.

> 29. snizapman6294: Can you give us any hint as to what the Brad Meltzer arc is called or who it centers around?

We haven't discussed a title yet at all. It'll focus on the main cast, Buffy generally.

> 30. trunkstheslayer: Since we have the title for 26 (Retreat) I've got a dual-question: Assuming that's an issue title and not the name of the whole arc, can we have 27's title? Or is it actually the arc's title?

Retreat is the arc. Every actual arc has had a single title, and that's this one. Retreat Parts 1 - 5.
Thanks, gang! #25 at the beginning of May—I had dinner with Georges and Becky and Vasilis tonight up here in Seattle, talked a lot about the series, and Becky and V. explained to Georges what their one shot is all about. We had a great time, even though the wait staff at Von's at the Roosevelt hotel kept throw things at us. Becky said: "It's like a friggin' water park in here!" Beware, when in Seattle!
Scott

[wenxina]

Nice job on organizing the Q&A again, Em. *karmas*