Buffy: Issues 19-21

This past weekend I was able to pick up 3 more Buffy comics of Season 8.  One thing I love about picking up a handful of new comics is that I am able to sit down and ready them through right away.  The thing I hate, is that more often than not I have to re-read the one or two before them so I remember what the heck is going on.

My interest is piqued in why Willow became ‘Dark Willow’ although I’m wondering if it has anything to do with the upcoming Kennedy & Satsu issue.  I was surprised to see Riley but not so surprised to see he was part of Twilight; given his past with the Initiative, I suppose he’d be easily swayed into another deep military operation.  Although I am curious as to where his wife is.

Issue 20 and 21 were nice little breaks from the norm.  I like Buffy’s realization that there has never been a ‘before’ where things were just plum happy.  Her life was and will always be fighting demons and making the hard choices.  In the back of one of the comics there was a full page of people bitching how crazy self-righteous Buffy is.  I know that there are times when her speeches get long-winded and she *can* come off as all above the law; but if there’s anything that Season 7 showed us is that she needs to be.  Even though she isn’t the only one anymore, she has become this leader for the girls.  She can’t be palin’ around with them; Faith herself said it that she isn’t going to be Buffy, but she isn’t one of the girls anymore, she’s their leader and they need to listen.  I think Buffy thinks that when she relaxes, things just go to hell.

I’m excited to see how many issues I can pick up *next* month!!!

Buffy Comics

I loaded myself up with the rest of the Buffy comics today and finished them quite quickly.  So now all I have to do is wait ’til June for the next one to come out, although I’m sure that it will be quite a bit longer ’til I bother going to pick them up since I blow through them so quickly.  It’s been mentioned before that I should wait ’til they come out in Trade Paperback form, but it’s really never a guarantee if they’ll be produced that way.

Anyhow, so since the next one won’t be out ’til June, I’ve read 13 issues and that means 2 different story arcs and a start on the third.  I love how there are thousands of slayers under Buffy’s command and working together to keep the world safe.  It is interesting how Dawn is still a giant.  I mean, what the hell?  Why is she STILL a giant?  Someone wrote in and made a point that if it had been any of the other characters, a remedy would have been found pronto.  But at least she’s proven to be useful in her giant form in this last issue.  I was not so much a fan of the Faith story arc.  It read like the same old crap just a different day.  No matter the situation, Faith & Buffy are just on two completely different sides.  At least in their mind’s eye they are.

In this last story arc I like how we are getting a bit more backstory on everyone.  I know that there are certain things that conflict strongly with some of the novels that were written shortly after Season 7 ended, but I’m willing to overlook it.  For instance, in Season 7 we discover that The First can only take the form of someone who is dead/has been dead.  So that obviously covered Jenny Calendar (from when The First tormented Angel in Season 3), Buffy, Spike, Drusilla, the potential from Texas, the quirky high school girl, the potential who was called a maggot during training, Warren, and then Jonathan.  But in the Buffy comics we learn that Amy saved Warren by teleporting him out.  Or in another instance, after Season 7 ended, in the book “Queen of the Slayers” it is portrayed that it is actually Buffy who is in Italy and spending time with The Immortal.  In “Angel” it seems to be the same story because Spike & Angel get in a tiffy about it.  But then in the comics they play it off as her doubles working the scene as Buffy.  I don’t 100% buy it because at the end of “Queen of the Slayers” Buffy has this whole out of body experience with the morphing of her, Angel & Spike’s hearts and the presence of their love child.  There’s no way you can fake your way out of that.

Anyhow, I love the writing because you can really feel/hear the characters through the pages.  The artwork is phenomenal.  I’m glad that neither Angel nor Spike have really shown up in the comics because I feel as if it would take away from what the Buffyverse has become now.

I heard that Sarah Michelle Gellar probably wouldn’t do a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie because she doesn’t feel as if the entirety of Buffy’s story could be told in the length of a movie.  In a way I feel as if that is true.  But with the release of “Sex in the City” the movie, I feel as if you wrote the right story, you could do a great movie.  Then again, if it didn’t have the original cast members, I most likely would not see it.  Who else but Sarah Michelle Gellar could truly play Buffy now?

Alright, cue end of geekiness