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[ETA: Home from work...with a splitting headache. Work related headache. I wrote the below on the fly at lunch, folks, after reading it several places on lj. At any rate, after posting - people in the comments gave me a different take on it. Which added to my headache. So I'm going to edit this post to include their takes, because you know I'd hate for people to take what I say as gospel, and let you guys figure out which is the correct version and whether you are going to waste spend more time and money reading this shitty comic.
Apparently at the San Diego Comic Con - Joss Whedon announced that he was too busy (now that he's directing the Avengers) to write the last five issue of Buffy, so his editor at Dark Horse, Scott Allie is going to write them instead, and Whedon is just going to tweak some dialogue. [Actually it appears from someone who was there: He said that Allie was going to be co-writing the final arc. *crickets* Then he described Allie coming down to LA to sit with him and break down the story, which sounds like the "writer's room" method. (I personally have no idea what was said at Comic Con, I wasn't there. Interpret that however you want.)
Then this interpretation of the above: Joss has already plotted out the rest of the BtVS S8, and has written all the dialogue, but there is a function in the process of making comic books which is called writing script... but it has a very specific meaning that has to do with the detailed notes to the artist. Joss did this same thing w/the Serenity comic books, he plotted it and did the dialogue, but didn't want to go through the extra labor of 'writing the script' so that was all done by Brett Matthews. It has to be done well to make sure the page breaks happen correctly and all, but it isn't really the creative writing part.
So you tell me what that means? Sounds to me like he's basically written the teleplay but let Scott Allie write the actual script and co-direct the episode with George Jeanty much the same way he did with Brian Lynch/Frank Urru over at IDW for Angel After the Fall.]
Not sure what that means...because, hello, comics are all dialogue.
So...what we have here is an established writer, a big name one in pop culture circles, switching places with a comic book editor - and a piss poor comic book editor at that. (The Buffy comics are the worst paced and have plot gaps that a truck could drive through, not to mention loads of factual and story inconsistencies - all of which can be fixed by a good editor, as most fanfic writers are aware of.)
Alrighty then. Haven't seen that one done before.
Whedon is essentially editing his own story, while his editor is writing his story?? Can you imagine, as a writer, giving your baby to your editor to write? While you occassionally pop in to edit it? Granted Whedon started out as basically a story editor - so this could work, assuming of course this has not been what he's been doing all along.
Mindboggling.
So folks - are you willing to buy a story written by Scott Allie and tweaked by Whedon? Curious minds want to know?
Apparently at the San Diego Comic Con - Joss Whedon announced that he was too busy (now that he's directing the Avengers) to write the last five issue of Buffy, so his editor at Dark Horse, Scott Allie is going to write them instead, and Whedon is just going to tweak some dialogue. [Actually it appears from someone who was there: He said that Allie was going to be co-writing the final arc. *crickets* Then he described Allie coming down to LA to sit with him and break down the story, which sounds like the "writer's room" method. (I personally have no idea what was said at Comic Con, I wasn't there. Interpret that however you want.)
Then this interpretation of the above: Joss has already plotted out the rest of the BtVS S8, and has written all the dialogue, but there is a function in the process of making comic books which is called writing script... but it has a very specific meaning that has to do with the detailed notes to the artist. Joss did this same thing w/the Serenity comic books, he plotted it and did the dialogue, but didn't want to go through the extra labor of 'writing the script' so that was all done by Brett Matthews. It has to be done well to make sure the page breaks happen correctly and all, but it isn't really the creative writing part.
So you tell me what that means? Sounds to me like he's basically written the teleplay but let Scott Allie write the actual script and co-direct the episode with George Jeanty much the same way he did with Brian Lynch/Frank Urru over at IDW for Angel After the Fall.]
Not sure what that means...because, hello, comics are all dialogue.
So...what we have here is an established writer, a big name one in pop culture circles, switching places with a comic book editor - and a piss poor comic book editor at that. (The Buffy comics are the worst paced and have plot gaps that a truck could drive through, not to mention loads of factual and story inconsistencies - all of which can be fixed by a good editor, as most fanfic writers are aware of.)
Alrighty then. Haven't seen that one done before.
Whedon is essentially editing his own story, while his editor is writing his story?? Can you imagine, as a writer, giving your baby to your editor to write? While you occassionally pop in to edit it? Granted Whedon started out as basically a story editor - so this could work, assuming of course this has not been what he's been doing all along.
Mindboggling.
So folks - are you willing to buy a story written by Scott Allie and tweaked by Whedon? Curious minds want to know?