Buffy Season 8 comic book - Preview pics!!!

[JamesMFan]

Perhaps it will end with a shot of Buffy in bed with both Spike and Angel and a thought bubble saying "Ah ha. Perfection."

[z]

the furious shippers would be in such dissaray , their lives of war would be futile and empty , oh well

[JamesMFan]

Peace and harmony, man. PERHAPS HARMONY COULD BE THERE TOO.

[z]

she'd snootily turn down the invite then cave in after they gave her a look , like the ep where Spike was unghosted

[Effulgent]

Article on comic/interesting spoilers:


BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER’s First Season Launched 10 Years Ago Saturday!! Season 8 Begins Wednesday!! “You think you know what you are, what’s to come. You haven’t even begun.”

I am - Hercules!!

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” came to The WB on March 10, 1997. I didn’t fall in love with it until the 15th episode, which ended with a new punk-rock vampire named Spike hoisting the season-one vampires’ imperious “chosen one” into the sunlight as Spike made this declaration:

“From now on, we’re gonna have a little less ritual - and a little more fun around here!”

And what fun we had!! There are many subsequent episodes I would come to love even more, but you never forget your first.

Buffy and Dawn Summers, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Rupert Giles, Anya, Andrew, Spike, Angel and who knows who else all begin returning to us Wednesday, when the new “season eight” Buffy comic, written by Joss Whedon and a lot of the other old series writers - including Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard, Doug Petrie, Drew Greenberg and Steven DeKnight - finally hits the comic shops.

We’ll only get (at most) 12 Dark Horse Comics episodes a year (instead of the 22 we got via The WB and UPN), but we know it’ll run at least 30 issues.

Copies of the first issue are floating around. Here’s a few invisotexted hints of what you can look forward to this week:

* First a recap of what we learned in this space previously. Season eight starts about 15 months or so after Sunnydale got sucked into its own hellmouth. Buffy’s in Scotland, running Slayer Central Command with Xander Harris. (It turns out she was never in Italy; that blonde Spike and Angel saw in Rome near the end of “Angel’s” final season was a clever Buffy decoy.) Dawn is attending Berkeley but visiting her sister. Dawn boned a local “thricewise,” which caused her to grow some 60 feet in height.

* We learn via Buffy’s opening “voiceover” that about 1,800 young women have been transformed into slayers.

* The season begins with a Buffy-led assault on a church, which in turn gives Slayer Central a mystery to solve.

* The Initiative, or something like it, is seen on the edge of Sunnydale Crater. Something happens there.

* Buffy craves a boning of her own. Apparently no Angel, no Spike and no Immortal is servicing her twentysomething needs.

* The issue ends with the return of a character we met in one of the earliest of the first-season episodes. It’s not Willow, it’s not Giles, it’s not Jonathan, it’s not Jesse, it’s not Joyce, it’s not Principal Flutie, it’s not Darla, it’s not Harmony, it’s not The Master, it’s not The Chosen One, it’s not Angel and it’s not Cordelia Chase.

Can’t wait till Wednesday? Whedon and some of the other “Buffy” writers made sort of a dry-run at season eight by authoring these two volumes. They don’t focus on Buffy Summers, but they’re all about her universe. And they’re kinda cheap!




Comic book pages/covers on the links below the article (go to the urls!):

www.aintitcool.com/node/31833
www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=21211


- haha don't tell me they're in Interness please tell me it has something to do with that annoying fictional monster that people go on about whenever you mention this bleedin place!

- SHE GETS A BONE? ohshutuppayoface! seriously! can't a girl not go without a month without getting involved with a guy nowadays, I'd be ok if it was Spike though haha but oh well, as long as shes happy... and thinks of spike some people think it might be HotComic!Xander

- I was hoping this character would be Jesse I wonder who it is? HER DAAAAAAAD

[z]

i havent been too interested in this till now all those writers listed gives it some officialness if joss says any future film would take into account the things taht occur in the comics id be fully on board i think that was true of that fray thing

buffy wasnt in rome

surely not the xan man and buffy but that might be prefferrable to some new drawn dude

[Effulgent]

I wish they would make a film more people would know about it than they know about the comic books (Aka people outside the fandom would say "ouuuu a buffy movie? " and we'd say "yeah I knew about it 10 years ago " )

SHE WAS IN GLASGOW!!!!!! they look the same

I used to be a B/X fan don't you know! I hope its someone who declares he is gay the next issue, so she can get together with Spike

[z]

id hate all the reviews about it from arsey twats who knew nothing about it and thought it was a funny cutesy series!!!
but i still want it to happen of course

the pope feels at home in both too

itswhat weve all suspected a long while

[Effulgent]

oh yeah, and probably only saw a couple of episodes of it or didn't get the characters, "Helen Mirren an oscar winning actress was in this film playing a Fungus demon, so its better than the series, I give the series 0 out of 5 and this 1000 out of 5"

Glasgow is better though, its cooler in terms of weather and it has better drunks! and football teams! (glasgow under 10s not celtic or rangers patooey )

I'm a 100 perfect Spufyista now though , yeah Buffy would be depressed (Again! ) and say "I was so bad I turned a man gay!" and Spike would comfort her and say "luv, cor I'm from walthamstow! cor! you're the best laaav" as he does in fanfics and then they'd get married

[z]

thats too near the truth for my liking

ive never been to either , either

are they the fanfics you write ? with theirfamed walthamstow references

[Effulgent]

yeah we all know Joss Said he was interested in casting Helen as a Fungus demon

I wish I could go to, I bet its fantastic when the Pope waves to everyone and you walk past and get trampled upon

no a lot of Fanfic writers *cough*americans*Cough* do that they all seem to think hes cockney for some reason I think its a ignorant "Brits are either posh and talk like the queen or are Cockneys and talk like Tiffany from eastenders" thing

[z]

i think judi dench is more suited to the role

the popes going to meet don king

isnt that the case

so these comics eh ?

[Effulgent]

yeah shes very fungusy in everyrole she does she brings a little fungus with her to the set

ALL HIS DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE!

cor yes lad, it bloody wee'aaaw is! ccccor!

yeah fantastic aren't they?

[z]

and leaves some behind in all her trailers

people were speculating he'll be going to hell

nicely put

i saw a 4 star review its so official seeming

[Effulgent]

and threatens to leave Fungus at peoples houses if she doesn't get nominated for an oscar every year

Because That hair belongs to the devil?

I'd be a fantastic cockney!

must have left the other star in the train! waayheey! its going to be great, I wish the show was coming back or this was in a movie, but this will have to do