@NoShip @thetopher @hoponlilmama @Joan the Vampire Slayer @NotASlayer
Ok so I thought Id attempt a re-read of Buffy Season 8. After all this was Joss Whedon (and various Buffy writers) without Actors or Networks and there rules or Budgets.
All he had to do was think it up and it could be drawn.
Well pretty much straight away I tried it and am struggling and might give up.
The Panel Art is terrible, Buffy and Dawn and co look nothing like how they looked on the show. Now was that intentional so he wouldn't get sued by Sarah for using her likeness ? I don't know but either way it pulls me out.
As for the story, it just pulls me out, you have the obligatory "you must work together" line to the Slayers before Buffy proceeds to beat them all up together.
That would've worked so much better if she'd beaten them individually THEN gotten them to work together to beat her ! Anyway from robbing banks and using human decoy body doubles and sleeping with a student, Im not sure Im a fan of this Buffy.
Giant Dawn is meh and old very fast. Amy and Warren (who I do remember Joss saying he'd forgotten he'd killed) as the villains are meh
The whole Twilight mystery is groan inducing especially given I know its Angel and the future space sex to come!!
Faith and Giles have great chemistry but thats it and Im honestly struggling to get through to the end so I probably won't finish it through to San Francisco.
In short do I find the Comic Re-Read as enjoyable as the Rewatch. Nope
It also made me appreciate that a lot of the checks and Balances he had for a TV stopped him producing any old crap that this is.
Ok so I thought Id attempt a re-read of Buffy Season 8. After all this was Joss Whedon (and various Buffy writers) without Actors or Networks and there rules or Budgets.
All he had to do was think it up and it could be drawn.
Well pretty much straight away I tried it and am struggling and might give up.
The Panel Art is terrible, Buffy and Dawn and co look nothing like how they looked on the show. Now was that intentional so he wouldn't get sued by Sarah for using her likeness ? I don't know but either way it pulls me out.
As for the story, it just pulls me out, you have the obligatory "you must work together" line to the Slayers before Buffy proceeds to beat them all up together.
That would've worked so much better if she'd beaten them individually THEN gotten them to work together to beat her ! Anyway from robbing banks and using human decoy body doubles and sleeping with a student, Im not sure Im a fan of this Buffy.
Giant Dawn is meh and old very fast. Amy and Warren (who I do remember Joss saying he'd forgotten he'd killed) as the villains are meh
The whole Twilight mystery is groan inducing especially given I know its Angel and the future space sex to come!!
Faith and Giles have great chemistry but thats it and Im honestly struggling to get through to the end so I probably won't finish it through to San Francisco.
In short do I find the Comic Re-Read as enjoyable as the Rewatch. Nope
It also made me appreciate that a lot of the checks and Balances he had for a TV stopped him producing any old crap that this is.
