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Post by wenxina on Apr 5, 2010 13:47:40 GMT -5
Buffyfest received the Jeanty variant cover for #37. You can check it out THERE. ::COVERS::::SOLICITATION::Joss Whedon (W), Georges Jeanty (P/Cover), Andy Owens (I), Michelle Madsen (C), and Jo Chen (Cover) On sale Oct 6 FC, 40 pages $2.99 Ongoing Spike and Buffy are finally reunited (*sigh*) and lucky him—he’s discovered the source of all her problems, and it’s not Angel. Now Buffy must revisit the place where love was indiscriminate, the Scoobies were formed, and Hell’s mouth was closed for good. Joss Whedon and Georges Jeanty launch readers into the finale of Buffy Season Eight, promising more adventure, twists, and turns. Bonds are tested, lives altered, and oh!—the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Hi-res covers and solicitation courtesy of CBR. ::PREVIEW::Preview courtesy of CBR. Looks like Xander and Willow in the foreground, but what's intriguing is that Xander has two eyes, and Buffy seems to be dressed in "high school" years outfit, with S2 hair. |
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Apr 5, 2010 13:51:45 GMT -5
It's #37, isn't it?
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Post by wenxina on Apr 5, 2010 13:53:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I just switched the number back... got a little confused by the skipping of a number.
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Apr 5, 2010 14:03:08 GMT -5
Happy 5,000th post.
Buffy surrounded by the corpses of her dead friends. Shouldn't Angel be there?
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Post by The Girl In Question on Apr 5, 2010 14:10:21 GMT -5
It looks like Buffy's Season 1 hair to me. While I like the picture and think it's well-done, I find it disturbing at the same time. I wonder what's going to happen.
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Post by Beaumonde on Apr 5, 2010 14:16:12 GMT -5
It looks like Willow's got her Welcome To The Hellmouth outfit on so I'd say it looks more like season 1.
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Post by wenxina on Apr 5, 2010 14:17:45 GMT -5
S1/S2... methinks the point is that this is the past... or some vision of what the past will look like given some crazy stuff that goes on in this season with the time bendiness.
That said, this is a stunning cover from Jeanty, and unless Jo pulls out all the stops, I already know which cover I'll be coveting.
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Post by The Girl In Question on Apr 5, 2010 14:28:36 GMT -5
^^Agreed. This is the best Buffy cover in very a long time, IMO.
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Post by Wyndam on Apr 5, 2010 14:49:10 GMT -5
That is Jeanty's best cover. I love how creepy and eerie it is and the detail is fantastic. Buffy's face, along with Willow and Xander's dead expressions really sell the mood of this cover. How foreboding! Plus the fact that it takes place in the past raises some questions.
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Post by CowboyGuy on Apr 5, 2010 15:26:02 GMT -5
Quite easily Jeanty's best cover, ever. Also one of the best covers for Season Eight overall!
Looks like we're going back to high school. I'm excited!
What if the Season ends with Buffy getting sent to some weird alternate past dimension where the demons rule supreme, and she is her old high school self? No Angel, no Scoobies. No Giles. No one.
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Post by wenxina on Apr 5, 2010 15:33:08 GMT -5
Nullifying years of character development would be one of the worst things to do. High school Buffy, with the knowledge of what could be (ala Angel in "I Will Remember You") is more poignant, but still... I'm not quite buying it. There has been talk about dimensions/planes at least twice now. Once, in #33, and I think Scott did affirm that there'll be more to that soon. Also, in an INTERVIEW, Scott mentioned that Joss' future plans for the series involved some multidimensional stuff. All this just build to an extremely intriguing puzzle... one a lot more interesting than the identity of Twilight, I must say. Even more so, is how one of Jeanty's responses in the Q&A for #33going to tie in with all this.
That to me just screams Fraypocalypse... which ties in will with the mission statement of S8 in the first place. Where we go from there... my head hurts.
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Post by hitnrun017 on Apr 5, 2010 15:35:29 GMT -5
Yeah definitely his best cover. I'm more than intrigued by what's coming next because of this. Looks like it won't be fun for anyone.
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Post by CowboyGuy on Apr 5, 2010 15:44:07 GMT -5
I don't think they'd erase years of history just to send Buffy back to some bizarre high school setting permanently. But maybe for just an issue? Similar to the dream in Issue 20?
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Apr 5, 2010 15:51:50 GMT -5
Jeanty just rocked me and my multidimensional selves. Just saying.  |
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Post by NightlySorrow on Apr 5, 2010 17:33:46 GMT -5
I love this cover, and it's Jeanty's best without question. I may buy this one along with the Chen cover, and I never do that.
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Post by nmcil on Apr 5, 2010 21:30:01 GMT -5
This is a great cover - I just hope that something really significant comes from all of this for this character to finally get over all her high school first love baggage - not only the character, but all the readers as well. By this time, and all the killings, all the physical abuse and sexual abusive behavior with that other vampire, her attempt to take Faith's life as an sacrifice to cure her boy friend/lover.
What are all the past viewers and readers suppose to make of all this "Big Buffy-Angel Reunion?" Are we suppose to forget that Slayer that was using another person for sex? Is that all it comes down to - Buffy, the heroine model of the entire series, was after a slut?
Is this really the place they want to take their heroine - to still be tied together, after all the horrors of Angel/Angelus, all that she has lived through and should have learned by now, still carrying around all that emotional baggage?
And what about Connor and all that Cordelia relationship - guess Angel was just trying on Cordelia for a test, not to mention Connor. Kind of thought Connor might have been the most important love of his life.
Mr. Meltzer is mistaken if he thinks that all the readers and fans want to see these two back together again - As a woman and speaking for the parents that I know, they would never have wanted their young teenage daughters having anything whatever to do with an older and very experienced mature male. As a woman, I hate that Buffy is still being tied to her emotional life from her teenage years - she needs healing and she needs growth and she needs to learn how to move on.
Off course if Joss Whedon really thinks that there is nothing wrong with all the crap that Buffy has had to live through because of her early life experience and that relationship, if he thinks that turning Buffy into an attempted murderess is OK - than I guess Buffy still carrying around all that baggage is just fine. Not something that I would wish or want for anyone that I cared about - or even someone that I didn't care about.
Sorry for the rant -
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Post by Smashed on Apr 5, 2010 21:38:04 GMT -5
Wow, I love it! Probably because I've been so missing the monster of the week style of the early seasons. Overall, I feel like Season 8 has become very "unBuffy", but I really do love this cover.
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Post by wenxina on Apr 6, 2010 8:31:49 GMT -5
Loving the slightly retro feel about this cover. Not quite sure what it is, but it evokes a kinda "Tales from the Crypt" feel, without feeling as referenced as the homage covers for "Twilight".
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Post by Without Passion on Apr 6, 2010 12:02:31 GMT -5
This is a great cover - I just hope that something really significant comes from all of this for this character to finally get over all her high school first love baggage - not only the character, but all the readers as well. By this time, and all the killings, all the physical abuse and sexual abusive behavior with that other vampire, her attempt to take Faith's life as an sacrifice to cure her boy friend/lover. What are all the past viewers and readers suppose to make of all this "Big Buffy-Angel Reunion?" Are we suppose to forget that Slayer that was using another person for sex? Is that all it comes down to - Buffy, the heroine model of the entire series, was after a slut? Is this really the place they want to take their heroine - to still be tied together, after all the horrors of Angel/Angelus, all that she has lived through and should have learned by now, still carrying around all that emotional baggage? And what about Connor and all that Cordelia relationship - guess Angel was just trying on Cordelia for a test, not to mention Connor. Kind of thought Connor might have been the most important love of his life. Mr. Meltzer is mistaken if he thinks that all the readers and fans want to see these two back together again - As a woman and speaking for the parents that I know, they would never have wanted their young teenage daughters having anything whatever to do with an older and very experienced mature male. As a woman, I hate that Buffy is still being tied to her emotional life from her teenage years - she needs healing and she needs growth and she needs to learn how to move on. Off course if Joss Whedon really thinks that there is nothing wrong with all the crap that Buffy has had to live through because of her early life experience and that relationship, if he thinks that turning Buffy into an attempted murderess is OK - than I guess Buffy still carrying around all that baggage is just fine. Not something that I would wish or want for anyone that I cared about - or even someone that I didn't care about. Sorry for the rant - Of course Meltzer or any other writer doesn't expect all fans to want the same thing, especially having Buffy and Angel back together. It's clear that the fan base is generally divided about this. Show me proof where Buffy is still tied down by her relationships in high school? Sure, they've become a part of who she is and have shaped her, but I wouldn't say that she is tied down by them. She has moved on from her high school years, at least mostly. Buffy has changed, grown, and healed (obviously not completely - she still has a lot on her plate,) but she and Angel still love each other and I think it's a bond that will never really leave either of them, no matter how much they "move on" with their lives. There will still be that connection between them. Calling Buffy a "slut"...really? Yea, that's obviously the message the writers are trying to get across. |
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Post by AndrewCrossett on Apr 6, 2010 12:22:28 GMT -5
I think Brad Meltzer may be thinking that people are mainly riled up over shipping issues here... Bangels vs. Spuffies, or Bangels vs. Anti-Bangels... but in reality I don't think that's been the case. In the places I've been looking, it's overwhelmingly been concern over the morality (or plausibility) of Buffy behaving this way, so suddenly, in light of what Twilight has done.
There are a few fans out there who would squee over Buffy/Angel kissage even if Angel had just killed and ate a baby right in front of her... but most of the Bangels I've seen mostly have a feeling of foreboding over what Joss is fixing to do to them.
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