WriterCon Report

Well, this has been a long time in coming. WriterCon was a great experience and a fun weekend, but also a very tiring one. I was pretty much flattened for the first half of the week and then, of course, I had to get back to the cod.

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Buffy Comics

From http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7991:

Allie announced that Joss Whedon has signed on for a new "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" comic and has "an outline for about 20 issues." The book is "season 8 of the [TV] series," Allie said, and picks up a few months after the end of the series. The book will feature art by Georges Jeanty and covers by Jo Chen.


Twenty issues!

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mbangel10 has been posting the links to Arbitrar Of Quality's reviews of BtVS and AtS over at Google groups. I read his comments on Bargaining today and thought this was an interesting paragraph:

Buffy doesn't appear in the flesh until about midway through the show, and she's front and center for the rest, albeit only getting about three lines of dialogue. On the plus side, not everything's happily back to normal, and it's unclear whether it'll ever be. On the minus side, it's hard to get too invested in this, and I think the reason is that the show has pulled back from Buffy's experience. She's been through several layers of hell before, but then the viewer was always with her. The only time I can remember having a problem with getting into her head is "When She Was Bad," and even there we do tend to know what she's experienced, and by the end of that episode, her behavior is fully understandable. The rest of the time, the viewer has always shared the hero's journey. This, on the other hand, is more like what happened to Angel in S3. We only have a vague idea of what she's been through, and how she's perceiving the world. S3 could get away with this, because Angel wasn't the main character, and only had to be seen for a few minutes each episode, almost always from the hero's POV. Here, since the show's about Buffy and the world revolves around her, they're going to have to let us in.


He does kind of have a point. I've always felt a disconnect from Buffy in S6 and S7 that wasn't there in the earlier seasons. I attributed it to her depression in S6 (depressed people often come across as pretty blank) and her 'General Buffy' persona in S7. But maybe it was a change in the writing, as well--the later seasons seemed to be less her POV than, say, S2 and S3 when the viewer was pretty much installed in her head.

Huh.