Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9, #15

[CBR News]

Training has begun, bringing the newest Slayer and Watcher closer together. Will they be ready when they're needed most? The rapidly growing zompire population has overcome a local institution, and our heroes in training must take on the fight of their lives!

Buffy show writers Jane Espenson (Once Upon a Time) and Drew Z. Greenberg (Warehouse 13) reunite in this special two-part story about a young duo coming together to fight the forces of evil and discover their role in this strange, new 'verse.




Full article here.

[charlesjbaserap]

Hopefully, it's better than the last issue:

http://www.nerdtopiacast.com/2012/10...-day-issue-11/

"Remember when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a show you could watch for reliably good stories with a purpose? Yeah. I barely do, too, at this point, as this series continues its sad grasps at attention. First it was last season’s random “let’s make Buffy gay for two panels out of nowhere and never bring it up again” and then the pregnant Buffy of this one deciding upon an abortion…followed by the writer’s cop out of having it be a robot Buffy and there being no pregnancy at all. Now, it’s the introduction of Billy, a gay teenage boy who is going to be a Slayer. The problem with Billy isn’t his sexuality, or even that he can be a Slayer–although it’s been a role that’s been female from the beginning of time, so I don’t know why they chose the first male Slayer to be gay as if they’re saying a gay male and a woman are practically the same; it’s that, once again, comicdom is following the formula—every gay character now introduced with fanfare must be constantly oppressed and bullied by everyone around them except for one or two stock progressive characters, speak endlessly in clichés, and be little more than a cipher. From the “No H8” sweatshirt to the stereotypical big dumb white jocks who bully him, the issue is riddled with by the numbers dialogue and plot, and Billy’s whole turn to a Slayer comes out nowhere, fitting I suppose since there are no more vampires anyway. That’s right. They’re zompires now. Because this show in comic form is just a mishmash of ideas that have no focus, no overarching uniting force like fighting Glory, or the First. It’s just been one manufactured controversy after the other and no substance. There were so many ways Billy could have been introduced that would have worked, so many ways other than lovesick over the cool guy he thinks can never love him but inevitably will and bullied by everyone except his hippie grandmother. Instead they went for the hamfisted, movie of the week, hammer to the head approach once again. Writer Jane Espenson asked what the problem was to writing with an agenda in a recent interview, admitting there was one. The problem is that the agenda winds up overshadowing the story and what could have been an intriguing plot about gender roles and choice vs. destiny instead has already become another talking points issue for the sake of it. Billy should be a full character on his own merit; he shouldn’t be the one-note song he and his surrounding characters have been shown as so far."

[MajorHoy]

Hopefully, it's better than the last issue:

Uh-oh. I just decided to give Buffy a try starting with Season 9, No. 14.