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Post by Onjel on Sept 16, 2008 14:10:28 GMT -5
Dawn the Centaur. Really, what is up with that?
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Oct 24, 2008 6:37:37 GMT -5
Is it me, or is issue the next issue late?
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Post by Onjel on Oct 24, 2008 8:03:54 GMT -5
Is it me, or is issue the next issue late? It's not just you. |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Oct 29, 2008 15:46:54 GMT -5
I'm not sure about this series. I haven't been happy with it for a while. The characters don't ring true. They always were so complex in the show. The plots are so far out there it's hard to suspend disbelief and the character interaction that was the main reason I loved Buffy so much--is weak or missing. The same with the "After the Fall" books, both series.
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 29, 2008 15:55:11 GMT -5
I'm not sure about this series. I haven't been happy with it for a while. The characters don't ring true. They always were so complex in the show. The plots are so far out there it's hard to suspend disbelief and the character interaction that was the main reason I loved Buffy so much--is weak or missing. The same with the "After the Fall" books, both series. I agree. I'm about ready to give up on the lot. Also the artwork is not pleasing, and it's hard to tell who's who a lot of the time. |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Oct 29, 2008 16:06:33 GMT -5
No, I've complained about the art before. Even when they don't offend me with the lack of proportion, the drawings often seem deliberately crude. I didn't mind the sojourn in Japan but gay Buffy rings wrong. Giant(!) Dawn and Centaur(!!) Dawn both ring wrong. The only character in both books that seems to ring true is Xander.
And they've effectively written Giles out for good.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 27, 2010 14:17:44 GMT -5
I think this trip to the future is key to the season, isn’t it? Buffy’s inner monologue here talks about why history, why the books, don’t know about her creation of the other slayers. Where is the better world, she wonders?
Which makes me think back to the very first words we got in this season 8 – the words I keep making myself go back to over and over as I’m reading the comics because I think they should tell us everything about this season. They were also a voice-over by Buffy: “The thing about changing the world . . . once you do it, the world’s different.” We keep being challenged to wonder, different how? Different in the way you wanted? The way you intended? The way you hoped? Can you totally control how it will be different?
Interesting to watch Fray and Buffy team up. Buffy’s experiences leading her to look at the bigger picture (which, like it or not, Fray, you do have to pay attentions to!), but Fray also being that excellent reminder of what the core of the slayer’s job is.
If the big bad of the future is Willow (I mean, the veins and eyes seem to say yes, even if the outfit is screaming “Dru”, because she’s waaaaay too sane to be Dru). I find it VERY interesting that she’s basically taking a page from the Angelus book of Buffy-opposition. When she says “Anger won’t help. You have to understand Buffy. If you hate her she’ll be harder to kill.”, it’s like Angelus saying: “Force won't get it done. You gotta work from the inside. To kill this girl... you have to love her.”
On the flip-side, I loved Xander and Dawn with the funny (“Chestnutty beauty”, “The Laurel and Hardy of being a dick”) and how very very unipressed they are with Lorelahn and crew (“What’s the deal, anyway? With the fire and the branches and the sword? Did you get caught in a Legend Blender?”)
And lastly, I want to know more about snake-woman and what her other motives are for giving information to Willow. Is she trying to protect her when she says not to look at the future, or . . . ?
Also? Puffy. Heeeeee!!
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Post by Lola m on Mar 27, 2010 16:18:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure about this series. I haven't been happy with it for a while. The characters don't ring true. They always were so complex in the show. The plots are so far out there it's hard to suspend disbelief and the character interaction that was the main reason I loved Buffy so much--is weak or missing. The same with the "After the Fall" books, both series. I agree. I'm about ready to give up on the lot. Also the artwork is not pleasing, and it's hard to tell who's who a lot of the time. I like some of the artwork better than others, I guess some of the pencil people fit my personal preferences (at least for this story) better than others. In going back and (re)reading whole swaths of story at one swoop? I'm finding myself much more caught up in the plots and themes and so on. Sometimes the "one issue at a time" was keeping me a bit distant, I think because each issue goes so much faster than an episode on TV. On the other hand, I am perhaps odd in that I am loving the ability to do things (like giant Dawn and other stuff that you'd never have the money to create) in comic form that are more wild, more SF, etc. Not that I "missed" that from the show, they're just different mediums and with different stories to tell, I guess. Each has it's advantages and disadvantages to me and so far, I'm enjoying each. To each their own, eh? And yeah, if you're not enjoying them, then there's no real reason to keep on reading.  |
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