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She'll be back
Dec. 9th, 2006 12:02 pmWork, work, work this week you’d think they paid me for it or something.
In other news previews of Joss’s S8 comic make me weirdly happy. Wierdly because I don’t know comics, I don’t know how to read them and it’s rather like being at the theatre and having to keep remembering that although it looks like a movie with the people and the talking it really isn’t. Still this comic makes me happy even though I had been very much of the opinion that Buffy’s story had ended and ended well. I’d stopped reading fanfic because all it seemed to do was rework issues that for me had already been covered better in the show. I think that’s why I like the idea of this comic and it’s probably because of the very unBuffyness that people have been finding off putting. She’s doing something new. S7 was her introduction to leadership under a system and circumstances that set her up to fail. Now, after the revolution, and, as it points out on the very first page, the world is changed and everything is different and I love that. I also love the retcon. In the space of one speech bubble Joss reclaims his story. And I like it because just as in TIGQ I didn’t think one sequence of Buffy partying meant that was all she cared to do, I don’t think that four frames of commando!Buffy means that that’s all she’s going to be written as. Even in those four frames there was a definite contrast between the gung ho visuals and the “don’t know what the hell I'm doing” text that felt very Joss and very Buffy to me (and I miss her).
In other news previews of Joss’s S8 comic make me weirdly happy. Wierdly because I don’t know comics, I don’t know how to read them and it’s rather like being at the theatre and having to keep remembering that although it looks like a movie with the people and the talking it really isn’t. Still this comic makes me happy even though I had been very much of the opinion that Buffy’s story had ended and ended well. I’d stopped reading fanfic because all it seemed to do was rework issues that for me had already been covered better in the show. I think that’s why I like the idea of this comic and it’s probably because of the very unBuffyness that people have been finding off putting. She’s doing something new. S7 was her introduction to leadership under a system and circumstances that set her up to fail. Now, after the revolution, and, as it points out on the very first page, the world is changed and everything is different and I love that. I also love the retcon. In the space of one speech bubble Joss reclaims his story. And I like it because just as in TIGQ I didn’t think one sequence of Buffy partying meant that was all she cared to do, I don’t think that four frames of commando!Buffy means that that’s all she’s going to be written as. Even in those four frames there was a definite contrast between the gung ho visuals and the “don’t know what the hell I'm doing” text that felt very Joss and very Buffy to me (and I miss her).