Season 8 #3 (Spoilers)
POSTED BY: daveshayne
UPDATED: Saturday, May 19, 2007 16:55
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Got mine Monday. Laughed my ass off at the big reveal of "dream guy"(and Buffy's reaction to it). Still can't comprehend why Ethan's helping Buffy. There's got to be a catch somewhere. Though I personally enjoyed Buffy's dream sequence with her "boys". It's not "wrong" at all with Buffy being fully clothed while the guys are bare-ass nekkid...it's her dream not yours.
Also thrilled to have skinless Warren back...that evil SOB. I still can't believe I got it right with my guess.
Though taunting us with killing Kennedy was pretty evilish of Joss, too!
The kiss: I'm sad to say I'm getting the feeling it's not going to be the one I want it to be, actually. Although I completely buy that Willow would have a sixth sense about Xander's feelings for Buffy, which could be why she would have the knowledge already that there was a person in the room who was in love with Buffy, I am beginning to think (judging by that knowledge and her facial expressions) it was Willow. I can't see her having that so-called sixth sense as easily with people (newbie slayers) she doesn't know very well, having been away a good chunk of the time. It could also explain, maybe, her distance from the group lately.
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"Drew isn't that talented. He just gets away with stuff because he's cute."--David Fury on Drew Goddard
"Our fate has to be our own, or we're nothing."--Angel
"In Joss We Trust."
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Originally posted by SerenityinScotland:
Didn't Willow flay him, have a wee chat with Buffy and Xander, and then burn him up? Or am I making things up....
No, that's pretty much the way it happened. Or appeared to happen. She flayed him; he collapsed limp against the bonds holding him upright, and then vanished in a puff of fire and smoke. My take on it was always that he died the instant he was flayed, and then Willow flash-fried the remains (to help keep the forest neat and litter-free
).But in a supernatural world like the Buffyverse, previous events can be re-defined thru magick, at any time, to best suit the next story the writer(s) want(s) to tell. Suppose we find out in issue #4 that he only passed out when she flayed him, and the fire&smoke was her banishing him to an eternal hell dimension, from which Amy then went and got him out?
Not saying I want that to be the case--just the opposite, 'cause it'd cause some major contradictions with S7. Also, even if that doesn't happen in this case, it's raised the worry in my mind that it could happen with something else down the road. On the show, there was a writing staff of a half-dozen or so, plus the dozens of members of the cast&crew, any of whom might potentially spot a contradiction with an earlier episode and point it out. Now, with the comics, there's, what, 5 or 6 people involved? Much less chance of catching an error...
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Well, party in my eyesocket, and everyone's invited! Count me in as geekboy #101, Joss has hooked me with this series, and now I'm back into comics with a vengeance! Also just got a few Buffy graphic novels from back in the day, lookin' foward to the Buffy Omnibus and Frey- OMG, I'm twelve again!!!
Retrograde Chrisisall
thrilled to know you are enjoying this (I am too)
and in buying the oldies but goodies you might want to look for 'Fray' (instead of Frey...)
And I highly recommend Tales of the Slayer, and Tales of the Vampire (both are series which are now out in graphic novel form which were partly written by Joss & partly by others from the Mutant Enemy writers' room)
IMO this issue 3 really justifies Joss writing S8 in comic book form:
not only could they never afford to do Gigantor Dawny on TV,
but I don't think the Buffy dream sandwich could have been done in any other medium! LOL
As far as the kiss goes, it is fine w/me if it was Xander or Willow...but I'm guessing there was a puppy in the room named Cinnamon buns
(or the spirit of Buffy's Mum, because didn't she sometimes bake cinnamon buns?)
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Quote:Thanks Em, I think a lot of that will be in the collections coming out next month...
Originally posted by embers:
And I highly recommend Tales of the Slayer, and Tales of the Vampire (both are series which are now out in graphic novel form which were partly written by Joss & partly by others from the Mutant Enemy writers' room)
'FrEying' Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Thanks Em, I think a lot of that will be in the collections coming out next month...
'FrEying' Chrisisall
really? Because I thought the omnibus would only contain the non-Joss comics that Dark Horse had published....
since the two 'Tales of..' were already out in graphic novel form:
http://www.amazon.com/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Tales-Slayers/dp/1569716056
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Vampires-Joss-Whedon/dp/1569717494/ref=pd_
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Quote:Well, I'll get 'em now if they're not included! Thanks, fellow Buffyologist!
Originally posted by embers:
really? Because I thought the omnibus would only contain the non-Joss comics that Dark Horse had published....
since the two 'Tales of..' were already out in graphic novel form:
http://www.amazon.com/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Tales-Slayers/dp/1569716056
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Vampires-Joss-Whedon/dp/1569717494/ref=pd_
lpo_k2_dp_k2a_2_img/102-0224091-0185701
Mr. Chrisisall
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yeah the 'Tales of...' are not included in the Omnibus:
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=14-632
but it looks like some fun things are:
The Origin, a faithful adaptation of creator Joss Whedon's original screenplay for the film that started it all.
The newly chosen Slayer's road to Sunnydale continues in Viva Las Buffy and Slayer, Interrupted.
Next, Sunnydale, the Scoobies, and an English librarian lead the way into Season One continuity. Plus, The Goon creator Eric Powell provides pencils to "All's Fair," featuring Spike and Drusilla at the 1933 World's Fair.
Personally I didn't care for Viva Las Buffy
but I think I'll have to buy the omnibus for the adaptation of Joss' original script for the Buffy movie....
(I hope the artwork will was okay...)
- very critical about artwork embers
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Quote:Me too; sloppy artwork is the Devil's playground.
Originally posted by embers:
- very critical about artwork embers
I bring the fun in Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by embers:
yeah the 'Tales of...' are not included in the Omnibus:
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=14-632
but it looks like some fun things are:
The Origin, a faithful adaptation of creator Joss Whedon's original screenplay for the film that started it all.
The newly chosen Slayer's road to Sunnydale continues in Viva Las Buffy and Slayer, Interrupted.
Next, Sunnydale, the Scoobies, and an English librarian lead the way into Season One continuity. Plus, The Goon creator Eric Powell provides pencils to "All's Fair," featuring Spike and Drusilla at the 1933 World's Fair.
Of course that's only the first volume of the omnibus set. I had thought that I had read that they were reprinting all of the Buffy comics (including the two tales of collections) but I can't find a link to that anywhere at the moment.
David
"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de
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Well I just got all the comics yesterday, gotta say I'm pretty impressed. Now we all know Joss, he sneaks all that really important stuff in there without you even noticing and so I really think we should be looking at those dream cubes carefully...
Caleb was in the top left it also said "Buffy and Angel 4ever" in the right top corner, there was a pic of Joss in there. Also in the bottom left, can anyone tell who that is? I think it might be Tara. There's one of Angel and one of Vamp-face Angel and I think there's one of her and Riley. There's also Faith.
I just can't help thinking that the whole dream thing is gonna become really significant.
What is best in life?
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women...
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