Season 8 Comics- Joss screws up?!?!?!

POSTED BY: jossismyboss
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 01:47
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CHRISISALL

Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:29 PM

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Originally posted by OPPYH:
I stopped collecting the Buffy comics after issue #15.

For a comic series that could have been so fantastic the writers(including Joss) sure took a bath on this one.

I really just liked where Chosen ended it; it was a perfect note, IMO. The comic had no chance of regaing past glory- the difference in the medium & lack of budgetary restraints are not friends to Ms. Summers, it seems.

The laughing Chrisisall

GROOSALUGG

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:47 AM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by Groosalugg:
It's an annoying mistake, but not really surprising. There's a lot of positives to continuing the story in comic form, but one of the negatives is that there's just the one writer working on it

Uh, there is more than 1 writer involved on the comic....

Uh, no, there's not. Not at the same time, the way they were back during the days of the show. 1 writer works on his/her own individual arc, sending various drafts back to Joss along the way, and he makes notes on things that need to be changed. Then the next arc gets underway, and the whole process happens again, with a new writer. So you're depending on just 3 people--the arc's writer, Joss, and Scott Allie--to catch any potential goofs before they go public. And in the issues written by Joss, that number goes down to just 2: him and Allie.

So yes, technically you're right: there are several writers working on the comics. But Drew Goddard wasn't reading early drafts of Joss's scripts for issues #1-4, where he might've been able to point out the Warren/First mistake ahead of time. Steven DeKnight wasn't reading Goddard's scripts for #'s 12-15. Brian K. Vaughan wasn't reading Jane Espenson's for #'s 26-29. Yet that DID happen on the TV show, because you had all 6-7 writers sitting around the writing room together day after day, reading each other's early drafts and collaborating to make them better and eliminate as many goofs as possible. That kind of collaboration just isn't possible in the comic format, which was the point I was making. My fault, I guess, for not specifying "just the one writer working on it AT ANY ONE TIME"...

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