Mar
2007
Buffy Season 8, Issue 1
I loved Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, and think Joss Whedon walks on water…this review will be slightly slanted.
Anyway, for those who haven’t heard about this, Joss is doing “season 8″ of the TV series as a comic books. I just read it, and… spoilers follow!
Characters Seen:
Buffy
Xander
Dawn
*someone who appears on the last page as a surprise, old character, but not a Scooby*
Characters Mentioned, But Not Seen:
Andrew
Giles
Willow
Overall I liked it. Was mostly set up, but Joss did it quickly and daftly.
- Established the Slayers and how they’re organized, hints they have money, or really, really good hackers. 1800 Slayers total, 500 work with Buffy, broken in to 10 Squads. 2 Buffy impersonators to protect her, one of them is in Rome dating The Immortal.
- Dawn has gone to Berkley, appears to have had bad first time sex, as is common in the Summer’s girls
- Andrew is still in Rome
- No one is sure where Willow is
- Xander works directly with Buffy in Scotland
- Giles is mentioned, but not sure where he is
It flowed well, Joss’ trademark snarkiness is evident, and you can “hear” the characters delivering all these lines nicely.
I look forward to more.
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Shari | March 15th, 2007 at 12:56 am #
Another Buffy fan. :-) Thanks for the report. I have no access to the comics so I have no way of knowing the outline of the stories.
I always felt the money situation with the council and slayers should have been addressed and that the whole situation where Buffy had to work at the Doublemeat Palace to support herself and be a slayer was ridiculous. It makes no sense that the watchers collected salaries but the slayer had to support herself.
I think the Willow thing will probably end up being related to the whole notion that her final spell in the last episode of season 7 transformed her into a “goddess”. All I can say is that, if Kennedy is never mentioned again, I’ll be happy.
Sean P Aune | March 15th, 2007 at 1:13 am #
Well, there is no mention of money, but Buffy and her team leap out of a helicopter and have high tech weapons. Xander makes reference to the satellite being in position and giver her a report on enemy placement inside the building.
I have a feeling Kennedy will appear. Too many slayers now for her to be just chilling somewhere, she’s probably in one of the teams.
Shari | March 15th, 2007 at 3:18 am #
Actually, I don’t have a problem with Kennedy per se (though she is obnoxious) but rather with the gratuitous, slapdash way they threw her and Willow together. It sort of undermined the way Willow approached her two previous relationships.
Thanks for the e-mail. :-)
Sean P Aune | March 16th, 2007 at 11:46 am #
No problem Shari:) I figured you would want to know “the secret”.
And yeah, Kennedy was just raced and, quite frankly not that wholly interesting.
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