Joss!Whedon!to!Write!Buffy!Comic!

[BronteJD]

::twirls of giddy joy and blissfulness::

http://comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6172

Joss is gonna write canon Buffy comic wonderfulness!!!!!

[Maukingbird]

It is, indeed THE BEST NEWS EVER!!!! (also of Firefly-era comics from Whedon and Matthews)

I'm curious to know who the other writers will be, filling out the "season." If they could get more show writers involved, that would be WONDERFUL!!!

[BronteJD]

I'm curious to know who the other writers will be, filling out the "season." If they could get more show writers involved, that would be WONDERFUL!!!


Agreed, so long as it's not Marti Noxon. NOT happy with her.

[Kyle]

Agreed, so long as it's not Marti Noxon. NOT happy with her.

God no. My girlfriend and I are halfway through season five and I keep thinking "do I really need to show her season six?"

Wait! Who said that?

[Maukingbird]

God no. My girlfriend and I are halfway through season five and I keep thinking "do I really need to show her season six?"

Wait! Who said that?

BLASPHEMER!!!!

:eek:

[BronteJD]

Umm....I'm with Kyle here.

Aside: HI KYLE!!!!!!

Season 6 did have some of the *single* BEST episodes of the series as a whole...Normal Again, Tabula Rasa, and of course, Once More with Feeling. And I *liked* the Buffy/Spike dynamic in a lot of ways.

But by in large, the storyline, the feel and concept of Season 6 as whole was sadly lacking. It was a deliberate choice on the part of the writers, I know - specifically Marti Noxon - but it was a choice that I did not care for at all in terms of either story or character development.

I own the season in terms of both completeness and having access to those episodes that I love, but I don't know if I'll sit and watch the whole season.

[dancj]

I thought season 6 was fantastic. For me seasons 3, 4 and 6 are the standouts

Dan

[torippu]

I stopped watching Buffy at the end of Season 5 so I can't really join in on the conversation.

Outside of the last 3~4 eps of Season 7, the only episode I watched after Season 5 was the musical one.

[Maukingbird]

I'm just one of those nutballs where there's not a single moment that I don't find important or magical somehow.

[Kyle]

I was actually fine with them going to a darker place in Season Six (because I think we all do stupid things when we're that age), I just thought they forgot how to be subtle, which was one of the things I loved about the show.

Totally agree about the single episodes, though. There's just this big chunk in the middle that's going to be hard to sit through again...particularly Wrecked! Gah!

[BronteJD]

I was actually fine with them going to a darker place in Season Six (because I think we all do stupid things when we're that age), I just thought they forgot how to be subtle, which was one of the things I loved about the show.

Totally agree about the single episodes, though. There's just this big chunk in the middle that's going to be hard to sit through again...particularly Wrecked! Gah!

See, I also initially didn't have a problem with the "darker" - yes, we all do quite stupid things at that age.

But that doesn't mean we're incapable of making a single good, positive, or beneficial decision.

Not a one of the Scoobies, with the exception of Tara, did anything except act selfishly for the vast majority of the season. It was just this relentless barrage of negativity and bad emotions - going dark is much better when it's balanced and contrasted, so you can SEE that you're in the dark place, as opposed to having it hitting you over the head Every.Single.Week.

I'm convinced Marti Noxon was working through her own suppressed issues from when she was that age, as opposed to actually having sought therapy. ;)

Yeah, Wrecked and Smashed were pretty bad, even though it made the Spuffy shipper in me sort of happy - it's hard to be totally happy when they refused to let anything positive come out of the relationship in the first place. :)

But I thought Tabula Rasa and Normal Again were just brilliant. And of course, the Musical. **hearts**

[Kyle]

Believe it or not, I had no problems with the Spike/Buffy stuff (although the logical side of my brain kept screaming "he's a mass murderer! Why is he even still alive?"). It was the Willow stuff I thought was bad -- that AWFUL drug metaphor that was about a subtle as a 600 pound gorilla in a pink tutu.

I agree completely, though -- you'd think that there'd be some LEARNING at some point in the season, but none of that seemed to happen until the way too pat closing moments of the finale.

[Bright-Raven]

I hate to say this, but sooooo NOT CARING.

What makes Buffy, Angel, and Firefly work is not just Whedon (and company)'s writing, but the casts and what they brought individually and collectively to the table.

And there is no way for Joss to bring that intangible - their interpretations of the characters - into the comics. No matter how well he writes it, or how well the artist captures their likenesses, the magic of the cast members' performances is missing.

Without that performance, the stories just don't matter all that much to me.

[Kyle]

I agreed with that when the shows were on -- I didn't follow any of the comics because I considered them to NOT be canon. But now that we no longer get the show, I'm going to buy them.