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Buffy #16 Cover Released: HUGELY SPOILERY!!!

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UPDATED: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:14
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 3:00 AM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

I mean it! If you don't want to be MASSIVELY spoiled then DO NOT LOOK DOWN!!!

Are you sure?

Okay then.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 7:46 AM

SERENITYINSCOTLAND

What's the status on Buffy comics? I feel like I haven't seen one for aaaaaaages! The last one I got was when:

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Faith and Giles team up at the end, and Twilight shows up

Have I missed one?! That would be disasterous in the extreme.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 10:17 AM

GROOSALUGG

SiS, that was #9. #'s 10 and 11 are already out, and #12 comes out tomorrow.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 11:06 PM

RIVER6213

Now this is just pathetic. When are you LOSERS gonna get it in your heads that BtVS is actually OVER?

Get a life!!!!

-River

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:53 AM

SERENITYINSCOTLAND

Are you having a laugh Groo?! I've missed TWO issues!!! Did I slip into a unnoticed coma...
To the comic book store!!!

PS. If you can't say anything nice River..

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 5:58 AM

MACBAKER

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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Now this is just pathetic. When are you LOSERS gonna get it in your heads that BtVS is actually OVER?

Get a life!!!!

-River

Considering Buffy is one of the best selling comic series out right now, that's a pretty stupid statement! Following your logic, I guess the same could be said about Firefly!

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 8:47 AM

GROOSALUGG

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Now this is just pathetic. When are you LOSERS gonna get it in your heads that BtVS is actually OVER?

Get a life!!!!

That was helpful.

If you don't wanna read the comics, don't read 'em. In the meantime, some of us are actually enjoying the fact that the story is continuing, written by Joss himself and other writers from the show.

And from now on, try keeping your idiotic opinions and your name-calling to yourself. This isn't the first time this has happened with you, either. Every time I see you put your fingers to your keyboard, you 'say' something dumber than the last time. I'd like to vote for the possibility of YOU getting a life, so we don't have to have you around here anymore. Maybe when you turn eighteen in a few years, you'll start growing up a little and acting more mature...

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Saturday, March 8, 2008 4:33 PM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Got bored being nice, River? Not getting enough attention? You DO remember what happened the last time you went through a mean phase, don't you?

Back to the comic!

Issue #12 has shed some light on why Fray might be involved since

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the scythe was stolen

I'm guessing Buffy does something to either locate it or retrieve it and ends up in the future somehow. Maybe she uses Nikki's bag again? It brought her to the past to see the first slayer, why not the future to see the last?

I've also read fan speculation that Harth may be Twilight. That just about makes my brainpan explode.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:22 AM

SERENITYINSCOTLAND

Double post, oops.
Oh btw, whos Harth?

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:23 AM

SERENITYINSCOTLAND

Nikki's bag is an interesting thought, never considered that.
I guess other options are a Willow spell going wrong (something to do with 'finding the slayer's scythe and *pop* Buffy goes into Fray's world).
The dreamer in me wants to say Illyria, but that won't happen. Still not reading After The Fall, I just can't get on board with it.
I suppose Twilight/Military complex could build a time machine. Or maybe Amy will pop up with some mojo.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:35 AM

GROOSALUGG

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Originally posted by SerenityinScotland:
Oh btw, whos Harth?

Melaka's twin-brother, the vampire.

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Friday, March 14, 2008 7:18 AM

SERENITYINSCOTLAND

Aww yeah, it's been a while since I read Fray. Can't see it being him, Twilight seems a bit too powerful for a vampire/lurk.

I see we are now getting a Spike: After the Fall and an extension of Angel: ATF. I can't help but feel disappointed, why can't they just let a great TV series be?

It may seem strange that I'm reading Buffy season 8 but not ATF. Let me explain. Joss ended Buffy on at season 7 by choice. He then chose to continue the series by comic - we are seeing what Joss wanted us to. Joss had Angel cancelled on him. Him and the writers did an unbelievable job to rewrite and conclude the series on what was (IMO) a perfect moment. Now it's continued in comic form, how can it be anything other than a pale imitation of what Joss wanted?

Now I find season 8 entertaining, but I was always felt Buffy/Angel were more than entertainment. Maybe it's because I'm new to the comic genre, but how can a comic be anything more than entertaining. Take the final scene from 'A Hole in the World'. If that was translated to comic, would it retain any of the emotion? I don't think so. Maybe that makes me a poor reader, that I lack the imagination to translate the page into 'reality'. So I'll keep reading season 8, and I probably will pick up the ATF collection (they are called trade paperbacks?) sometime. But it will be as a curiosity, nothing more (a bit like Fray was I guess).

I think that deep down (and I don't think that I will be the only one out there), for me, barring any miracle resurrections, the Buffyverse ended with an alley, rain and "Let's go to work."

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Friday, March 14, 2008 10:14 AM

GROOSALUGG

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Originally posted by SerenityinScotland:
It may seem strange that I'm reading Buffy season 8 but not ATF. Let me explain. Joss ended Buffy on at season 7 by choice. He then chose to continue the series by comic - we are seeing what Joss wanted us to. Joss had Angel cancelled on him. Him and the writers did an unbelievable job to rewrite and conclude the series on what was (IMO) a perfect moment. Now it's continued in comic form, how can it be anything other than a pale imitation of what Joss wanted?

Except they didn't do much re-writing for the series finale. Joss and Jeff Bell have both said that the only thing that was done different due to the cancellation was

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killing off Wesley.

Other than that, they ended it exactly the same as they would have if they'd been coming back for S6.

I felt the same way as you before the "Angel" comics came out. I was psyched about "Buffy" S8, but pretty 'ho-hum' about "Angel", and for the same reason: the ending of "Not Fade Away" was SO perfect, how could you top that? Why even try, by re-opening the story?

I was wrong. "After the Fall" has been absolutely FANTASTIC so far. Brian Lynch has the characters down so well it's just a shame he never got to write for them on TV, and he's using not only a lot of his own ideas, but a lot of the original plans Joss had for S6. If you give it a try, it might win you over just like it did me...

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