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http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/8719.html:
Whedon Pens New Buffy Comic
From Dark Horse in October
May 23, 2006

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon is writing a new six-issue Buffy mini-series for Dark Horse Comics. The first volume is due out in October. A Dark Horse spokesperson has confirmed to ICv2 that the new series chronicles events that happened to Buffy and her friends after the conclusion of their televised adventures and will function as a "Season 8" to the highly popular cult hit TV series that ran for seven seasons (see "Buffy Returns").

Even though the WB aired the final episode of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series three years ago (May 20th, 2003), reruns have extended the life of the popular property, which still supports a wide array of tie-in products including action figures from Diamond Select Toys, trading cards from Inkworks(a new series is due in August), and Cine-Manga from Tokyopop (see "Tokyopop's 'Buffy' Cine-Manga").

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Just bein' rebellious Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Hiya, E!
Joss comics are always a good thing. If you haven't read his Astonishin X-Men run, I highly recommend it. Chock-full of Jossy goodness.

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... although, come to think of it, they did lift a lot of the script from those very same Astonishing X-men comics he wrote...

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(Iie... For the record - such as it is - Jossy isn't the first X-Author to address the "mutant cure." It's been done many times throughout the ages, so one could - if one cared - claim that the new movie lifts a lot of stuff from all those other authors. JW just did it the bestest. )

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... although, come to think of it, they did lift a lot of the script from those very same Astonishing X-men comics he wrote...

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(Iie... For the record - such as it is - Jossy isn't the first X-Author to address the "mutant cure." It's been done many times throughout the ages, so one could - if one cared - claim that the new movie lifts a lot of stuff from all those other authors. JW just did it the bestest. )

Joss wasn't the first one to do the cure, but the movie did use HIS cure story specifically; they're using one of his original characters, Kavita Rao.

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http://www.sfx.co.uk/features/joss_whedon_vs._mark_millar

JOSS: Well, there’s probably more of me in the third than the first, since they’re using my ‘cure’ scenario as a jumping off point (to be clear, I know many people have done cure scenarios before me – X-Statix did one that came out just months before – but I didn’t know that when I wrote mine. So my wildly unoriginal idea was, in fact, mine. Avi told me they were using it (and the character of Kavita Rao) for the movie, possibly because of the more modern genetic forum, possibly because they didn’t read the other ones either.

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And unlike Chrisisall I DO have them in bags with boards....

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You haven't seen my comic collection lately...
(Sold a gorram quarter of 'em to finance my Buffy obsession, and I still got almost 1,500 hanging around!)
Still have my first Superman comic from when I was seven; it cost 12 cents at the time...

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Originally posted by embers:

I'll bet your family is enjoying the Buffy & Angel tapes more than they were allowed to enjoy the classic comics collection

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my wife won't watch anything w/demons or vampires, they give her the creepy nightmares!!!!

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... although, come to think of it, they did lift a lot of the script from those very same Astonishing X-men comics he wrote...

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(Iie... For the record - such as it is - Jossy isn't the first X-Author to address the "mutant cure." It's been done many times throughout the ages, so one could - if one cared - claim that the new movie lifts a lot of stuff from all those other authors. JW just did it the bestest. )

So how about that Buffy season 8 thing, huh? (feeble attempt to get away from thread drifties)

Wonder if MPhillips should start pestering Dark Horse....

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Huh, wazzat?? My name is mentioned as I lurk?..And I AM seriously thinking about pestering Dark Horse....

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Originally posted by mphillips:
Huh, wazzat?? My name is mentioned as I lurk?..And I AM seriously thinking about pestering Dark Horse....

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Wait, another firefly comic? What are you talking about? Why haven't I heard about this? Where can I buy?

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>snippity snip<, but I expect to hear that the first issue is coming out some time this Summer.
Maybe I'm being too optimistic...

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BENDIS: [Laughs] Oh, speaking of, I saw on the board tonight they announced the new Buffy comic. You’re gonna write a new Buffy comic?

WHEDON: I am, in fact. This was originally a concept that was designed to tie in to some Buffy movies that are probably not going to happen. So now the comic is out there twisting in the wind by itself. But I have this arc; this concept of what I refer to as “Season 8” of “Buffy,” which is the “What happens next?” Although it’s very much more comic book in scale and style and time frame. Everyone’s like, “What week will it pick up during?” And I’m like, “It’s not quite like that.”

What I’m doing is working with George Jeanty. He’s gonna be drawing the first four, which I’m writing. And Jo Chen’s gonna do the covers. I’m a huge fan of hers. I have this arc laid out which I’m sort of writing up as where I want the series to go and then I’m gonna be bringing in anybody from the camp or any of our friends who have the time to do arcs within that. Just sort of servicing certain beats and then going off on their own. Because at this point, it’s sort of fair game. There are certain characters I’ve been saving because I thought I might make movies about them, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.

BENDIS: Why isn’t that going to happen?

WHEDON: I think money is standing in the way. What is ever in the way? What ever makes anything happen or not happen?

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Originally posted by WTE:
So is this going to take place during Angel season five? And if so... is it just going to be the Buffy characters running around talking to potentials?

HONKS

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