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Post by Giant Michael on Mar 29, 2008 6:12:33 GMT -5
Interesting stuff! I'm very excited to see how this pans out; shame it's, like, a million years away!
What has Buffy come as in those previews, though? She looks like a Spice Girl. I really liked Jo Chen's cover, too; interesting contrast between the steampunk of Fray and Buffy's wafty summer dress that I'm not really getting with Moline's. His Dawn is awesome, though.
I think this one has already been decided but, as hilarious as a Giant Baby would be, she had better not be pregnant.
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Post by Giant Michael on Mar 4, 2008 6:20:43 GMT -5
Um, Twlight is definitely evil. I don't think anything in these comics has been black and white. Whilst I don't think he's one of the Good Guys, I think Buffy herself has been tap dancing all over the, erm, dancefloor of morality... Kind of lost the thread with that metaphor. What I mean to say is, I think Twilight has an agenda, and a legitamate reason for that agenda. I don't think he's just killing all the Slayers for the LULz. MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Mar 2, 2008 10:15:38 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be interesting if Twilight was a descendant of Buffy? Meaning she had kids. That's not gonna be the twist, but I just thought that would be interesting...Buffy being a mom. Interesting. Whether this transpires or not, the last time we saw Fray - in Tales of the Slayers - she'd just discovered a library filled with what I presume were Watchers' diaries. She learns about the Slayers who have come before her, and we get an image of all the Slayers from the comic itself, as well as Buffy (although, interestingly, not Faith)... Depending on at which point in Fray's timeline she and Buffy meet, I wonder whether she'll let Buffy know how the rest of her life pans out? MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Feb 28, 2008 12:27:44 GMT -5
I am too excited about this...
Also, there's a Karl Moline sketch of Buffy and Fray in the back of the Fray TPB, for anyone interested in how Buffy is going to look in issue 16. I'll try ghetto scanning it later, if that sort of thing is allowed here.
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Post by Giant Michael on Mar 13, 2008 9:32:39 GMT -5
Wishful thinking, perhaps, but I do think it's significant that the whole cast are reuniting for the con; SMG, especially, has always seemed fairly keen to distance herself from that dorky vampire show she did in her early twenties. To put it mildly.
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Post by Giant Michael on Feb 22, 2008 5:35:14 GMT -5
When the previews for issue one were released, I remember a lot of people pointing towards Satsu's animal ears hats as a reference to Molly Hayes from Runaways.
Molly's hats are way cooler, though.
MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Mar 13, 2008 17:59:30 GMT -5
The meta is interesting, but I don't think Jeanty puts nearly as much thought into his expressions as they're reading into it. If he was going to go to that much trouble, you'd think he'd be a bit more consistent in terms of the shape of peoples' faces and the positions of their features. Buffy looks like she's melting in issue twelve.
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Post by Giant Michael on Feb 22, 2008 5:16:04 GMT -5
There's a very short Buffy/Xander in-between story in Tales of the Vampires. That and Tales of the Slayers are both worth checking out if you're looking for reading material between issues!
I think the point of setting season eight so far ahead of season seven was so that Joss didn't have to go through the process of setting everything up, though. We've already found out that Buffy has been a-bank robbin' to fund her hardline helicopter habit, and we've found out how newly-activated Slayers are called to the mission, and I imagine itty bits of information are going to spill out as the series progresses. Anything else we're going to have to fill in ourselves.
I bet it involves Willow doing a locator spell...
As for Xander, I'm sure he's going to get an arc/standalone of his own - outside of 'Wolves at the Gate' - at some point. I'd wait until then to see how his grief over Anya pans out. How could they not deal with that? Juicy story angst, OM NOM NOM!
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Post by Giant Michael on Mar 10, 2008 4:18:26 GMT -5
Is it Leah that has red hair? Yes. Very BIG red hair. I hope they explain Leah's hair as the result of a botched supernatural experiment. It really is the most inappropriate hairstyle for someone who spends a proportion of her time zipping down ropes dangling out of helicopters. She looks like Jenny from Bucky O'Hare (Google it). The phonetic accents are embarassing, too. Particularly for someone who lives in Scotland. MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Feb 10, 2008 8:03:58 GMT -5
Well, see, I don't mind that, but I do mind your jumping to the conclusion that "people who value good writing and good storytelling tend to be disappointed with Season 6". That statement is offensive to more than half of the fandom. It's the same argument people are using in defense of season six, though, and I think there is some truth in it: the way I see it, season six has a lot of really good episodes, and it has a lot going for it. But, compared to seasons four and five in particular, the arc just wasn't as tightly-plotted, and a lot of the writing falls flat. There are episodes in there that should have been great - 'Hell's Bells' is the first that comes to mind - and parts of them were, but a lot of stuff feels like it was either rush-written, or that the writers just didn't care enough about it. I think things improved in season seven, but they still go off the rails towards the end. I suppose it's a result of Joss overseeing the show in the earlier seasons, but having so much more on his plate towards the end. I hope - when he comes back with Dollhouse - he'll stick to making one show as good as it can be before taking on anything else. MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Dec 12, 2007 10:45:42 GMT -5
I think anything as black and white as Heaven and Hell is very, very rare in the Buffyverse, so getting tied up in knots of over who goes where after they've done what is futile. Maybe Spike isn't the guy either-- and I have to say I have serious doubts, but unlike B/A they didn't get a full chance to come to a real ending to get that closure. His death was kind of... final. Until he, erm, came back to life, obviously. Does she even know about that yet? MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Nov 23, 2007 14:32:30 GMT -5
Presumably the subtitle has something to do with the 'Twilight' storyline?
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Post by Giant Michael on Dec 13, 2007 6:19:53 GMT -5
Um...didn't Ethan die? At least he did in the issue #4 that I got. Pssht! Who hasn't died in the Buffyverse? MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Dec 8, 2007 9:16:14 GMT -5
Having just watched Season Four's 'A New Man', I'm starting to wonder whether we've seen the last of Ethan Rayne, or whether his involvement wasn't something to do with Twilight; in the same episode, Ethan refers to 'the time of magic', in reference to himself and Giles being mystics. I wonder whether this season doesn't have a stronger connection to Season Four than just the reappearance of the military / government.
Also, in terms of parallels, Giles doesn't want Buffy to know about him being turned into a demon through pride, rather than through wanting to protect her from anything. Interesting, perhaps, given the fact that Giles has been keeping Buffy out of the loop recently...
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Post by Giant Michael on Nov 11, 2007 8:28:09 GMT -5
TBH I kinda feel sorry for Genevieve. I mean she is defo a Faith no.2 in that she just wanted to get along with someone and for someone to accept her, which Faith did. Yes! That's what I was getting at; if Faith kills Gigi, she is - essentially - killing herself and everything she stands for, namely redemption. Thank you! MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Nov 10, 2007 17:46:15 GMT -5
I don't see how shes a offensive stereotype. As an English person - outside of Giles and Spike, and even they had their moments - everytime I see English people depicted in the Buffyverse a little piece of me dies. Let's not even get into Leah's Scottish accent, we could be here all week. I find the idea that Buffy should kill Gigi a very black and white way of seeing the world, not to mention hypocritical; if Faith kills her, it will be even worse. That way lies poor storytelling, if it's not dealt with accordingly. I think - hope - that this is something that's going to be addressed in the comics; Buffy was told she was at war with humanity at the end of the first arc. She seems to be 'oh... kay' with it. If Buffy is the Warrior of the People, there seems to be something very wrong with that. MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Nov 10, 2007 9:27:40 GMT -5
Of course she needs to die. She's a threat to EVERYONE. Surely, reason enough for the writers to keep her going? Not that I have any sort of investment in her sticking around; quite the contrary, I find her an offensive stereotype, a poorly-drawn caricature in place of the kind of deep, intruiging characters I've come to expect from both Brian K Vaughan and the Buffyverse. That said, it's interesting that so many people think that Buffy should kill her, because she's a 'bad person'... for killing people... and trying to kill Buffy. Twisted logic, if you ask me, although I'm aware that nobody did. I think this is starting to emerge as one of the key themes of the season; similar to season five of Angel, I think we're going to see a questioning of Buffy's power, and whether it's right or wrong that she gets to make the decisions that change the world. I don't think we'll ever have an answer. MB x
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Post by Giant Michael on Oct 11, 2007 7:47:16 GMT -5
I don't think it's coincidental that Joss is building up a number of the Slayers in training. I wouldn't get too attached to Satsu or Rowena, in particular...
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Post by Giant Michael on Jan 26, 2008 18:41:33 GMT -5
How close is the link between 'season eight' of Buffy and the Fray comics? Also, how certain is a Fray follow up?
Since we got an arc that focussed pretty closely on Faith, will we be seeing arcs/stand-alones that hone in on other characters who exist on the outside of the core Scooby gang? I'd love an Andrew character study. I'd love to write an Andrew character study.
Lame, shiny-paper-loving-obsessive-compulsive question: how likely is a hardback special edition 'season eight', in the style of the omnibuses? (Omnibusi?)
Also, keep up the good work. It's taken me a little while to get onboard with the comics, but they're warming up into something really exciting.
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Post by Giant Michael on Aug 5, 2007 16:32:48 GMT -5
I've seen him trot out what my partner and I have come to refer to as the 'magic shoes' storyline before, and always hope it's just Joss paying fan service rather than a story that was actually in consideration.
Why? Because it's lame on toast. Woeful, and silly, and dilly-dallying with rules of magic which are so far away from everything that was good about the 'thou shalt not raise the dead' logistics of the early seasons.
I love Tara - she's one of my favourite characters from the show - and that's why I don't want to see her brought back. I think it would cheapen her death...
Particularly if it had anything to do with magic shoes.
As an aside, with all the globe trotting the Scoobies are putting in at present, how much are we betting that Willow is going to bump into Oz when she turns the corner in Istanbul?
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