Revisiting Buffy S8 1-4, The Long Way Home - Just Musing.

Difficult day, and I'm all bad moody. So, to cheer self up, went to comic book store to pick up the latest "Buffy S8" comic, also by Joss Whedon, which had been getting rave reviews from my reliable online sources. But alas, was not to be. The only, the ONLY one that did not make it in - was the Buffy one. Apparently one box got delayed and it was that one. He said it should be here tonight. (It was five pm - when I stopped by.) But, he said, I got the Angel one for you...wait, you stopped on Angel haven't you? (I'd told him only to reserve the Brian Lynch Angel and Spike comics for me, and ignore all the other writers IDW managed to hire. I know, I know...I should give them a chance, but I'm picky. In my opinion the only one outside of the Whedon/Mutant Enemy writers who can write Angel is Lynch, he's not perfect, quite flawed actually, but he's better than everyone else. Angel is admittedly hard to write without going too far in one or the other direction. But out of curiousity I picked up the second issue, thumbed through it, and then said, nope, don't much like Willingham. (which I know is blasphemy - because you know FABLES! But I didn't like Fables as much as I thought I would, and gave mine to a pal, ages ago. Well, rather I did like Fables, up until Willingham went all sexist on my ass, damn him. It is really hard being female and liking certain mediums and genres...which is why I adored Whedon and to a degree Cameron - who, whoa, introduced tough female characters into the genre. As did Brian Henson in Farscape and the guy who did Bab 5, not to mention Ron Moore. Defending my love of Westerns in college was...well, painful. Don't get me started on pulpy, noirish, and super-hero action comic books. Feminism and geekdom can at times be unmixy things.)

Anywho...ever since that whole Twilight Spoiler, well actually both spoilers - I've been re-reading some of the early issues. Picked up the second issue of the Long Way Home, last night and tonight. Mucho interesting.

( Buffy S8 - The Long Way Home Revisited - Spoilers for everything up to Issue #30, vague spoilers after that since I have not read the most recent issue yet. )