Ooh, geek-gasm. Two Buffy posts in a row, it's like the past five years never happened! Anyway, looks like Joss is debuting his new Buffy comics at ComiCon next week (I already spoke of the coming-existence of these comics here), and EW.com has got a look at the first cover, Also, they've got some goodies as to what's going on in the life o' the Scoobs:
"So what's going on in the extended Buffyverse? Well, you may recall the show ended with the creation of an army of Slayers. Now they're organized, and the tide has turned in favor of the good guys. Ah, but you know how much Whedon hates winners: Soon an 'old enemy' surfaces (Dark Horse is cagey on Big Bad's identity), and Dawn starts 'experiencing serious growing pains.'"
You have no idea the pangs of excitement that paragraph gives me. Like, I feel... giddy. Stupid giddy. Joss doing new Buffy! My mind goes, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!".
In my (overly-educated-on-all-things-Buffy) opinion (and here's where I start getting really geeky, so non-Buffy-fasns might wanna run now, if you ain't done that already), Dawn's experiencing "serious growing pains" is gonna have something to do with the long-forgotten fact that she was not born human, that she is something else. Because Joss liked Michelle Trachtenberg so much he never dealt with because it'd probably mean offing her or changing her in some way. The character of Dawn was highly unpopular through the final couple of seasons (not with me; I'm one of the few that liked her), and I don't think Joss liked that fact, so he just made her human and refused to deal with her origins. But now, it sounds, like we might finally get that. Or that's my guess.
As for whom shall be the Big Bad, who knows. Far too many options and they all make me excited. Since it has to do with Dawn, it could be Glory, though she seemed pretty rubbed out at the end of Season 5.
But nobody's really ever dead on Buffy, right? Which is why I'm fully expecting a goddamned Anya ressurrection. Oh Anya, my love.
I do wonder if what happpened at the end of Angel (super-giant Apocolypse-like-thing) will have any sort of effect in the world of Buffy... the EW writer makes it sound like the Good Guys are winning the fight when we rejoin them, but everything was pretty damned gloomy where Angel left off. Will any Angel characters be in the Buffy comics? Could (I dare to dream) Ilyria (Fred's body taken over by an ancient demon, of course) be around?
Or... Spike? It really isn't Buffy without Spike, and I say that as not even that huge a fan of his.
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I think these are going to have to be the first comics I actively seek out and purchase and read. because omg it's Buffy!
Anya! awww.
I really liked Dawn too!
I never got into "Angel" so I didn't watch it to the end, even though I heard it got much better.
I wonder where the Scooby gang will go though? Cause there ain't no home left.
The only comics I have ever sought out are the one's Joss Whedon has penned. I bought the Fray comics, I bought the Astonishing X-Men run he did, and now I will be buying these.
I knew you were awesome, KC. A Buffy-lover, too! Plus, an exporession of oh-so-rare love for Dawn! You rock.
It took active work for me to get into Angel, I was never a huge Boreanez fan, but the last season was FANTASTIC, and I loved so many of the other characters that not really caring about Angel himself never really mattered.
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