Honestly. Don't buy that trash. Sure Joss is still involved with the stories to an extent
To an extent? Like planning the storyarc for every issue, writing the key storyline tales and overseeing and handpicking each writer on the title, much like he did on the television show
, but the best writers like jane Esperson are gone.
Hmm, good point. It seems that most of the writers are award winning comic book writers or award winning novelists, which means that they are not in the same league as the TV writers. Sorry Brian K. Vaughan, Jim Krueger and Brad Meltzer... wait, wait I do believe some of the other contributers include a certain Mr Whedon and a few other Buffy veterans including Doug Petrie, Steven S DeKnight & Drew Goddard all who wrote some of the more popular Buffy or Angel episodes. Not to mention Jeph Loeb writer and producr on Lost. Oh yes and Jane Espenson who not only wrote a one off Harmony issue, but has a five issue tale in the works featuring Oz.
The story is horrid and totally not in character. First of all Buffy becomes gay, she sleeps with another slayer, which is so stupid.
Okay I really sort of agree with this, for me this little development did sort of grate a little, and I did not really like it. But Buffy has not become gay, it was a bit of experimentation that she did, and moved on. And when you think about it, her luck with men has not been too good and her best frined seems to be very happy with her life choice, why wouldn't she try it for herself.
She was fine with Willows choice of course, but she was totally not gay before. Second of all there is an overdose of Xander. He isn't the funny, loser Xander. He is now another super chick. And he is super annoying.
It would be easy to say Xander has always been super annoying. And yes he has changed, but then he has been through a lot, the least of which was losing his eye to Caleb. He is a more mature person, in command of a whole army of Slayers and is a strong male character. I would not even say there is an oversose of him.
There are no characters with any testosterone,
This is almost true, but there are male characters, Giles has been seen as has Andrew; there has been a glimpse of Riley and of course not to mention Xander - and in an upcoming storyline Oz (Oh yeah, 5 issues written by Jane Espenson)
and Buffy the show had some awesome strong male characters. Oh..btw..Dracula is also gay and into Xander. he bsicly just uses him to get to Buffy in the show...but now he is gay too.
I think this is a matter of interpretation again, I did not read Dracula as being gay, as such, more androgynous
Which is actually more repulsive then Im telling you. If you want a good vampire comic thats funny and scincere try "Life Sucks" it's great. Don't waste your money on the Buffy comix. They would never have made a season like that anyhow. Its totally not like the show.
Perhaps. But then Season 7 of Buffy bears very little resemblance to Season 1, and if there had been a Season 8 there is no reason it would have gone in a new direction like this - especially as there are no budgetry restraints on the printed page so you can do things that would be too expensive on television. Like have Dawn a giant - or indeed a Centaur as she is now.
Even the whole Dawn is now a giant and they all live together(as if a bunch of twenty year old women would ever decide to live in a nunnery esentially away from all men!) in a castle in Scotland!
