Once More With Feeling...

[shadowkat]

Last one, I promise. All this is probably proving is that I should leave polling to the experts. Hee.

[Poll #976784]

Comments

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I will absolutely read the AtS Season 6 comic if it is canon, where by "canon" I mean Joss has a hand in the story lines. That show ended too soon. Part of my difficulty with BtVS is I was fine with where it ended. More story is good, of course, I love the Buffyverse, but I struggle with the comics medium. It is mega-confusing to me.

I am AtS's bitch, though, if Joss is at the helm.

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics for figuring out the medium. A fun book and also very informative. Comics are often like reading something in a different language, the brain has to get used to the format. It's probably good for making new neurons or something. Someday I will sit down and figure out how to read manga as a way to stave off senility.

Buffy 8.02 spoilers below

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, I do OK with comics that are stories I haven't seen in another medium. Like I did OK with Fray, for example. But the BtVS one confuses me because the story-telling has to be condensed down to a few pages with a lot of background information and contextual cues cut out, and the slight lack-of-resemblence between the characters as drawn and the actors on the show (which I know is necessary) sometimes gets me confused about who is being depicted in the illustration. This was a major problem in issue #2 where they showed some random blonde tied to a bed having nightmares and being stalked by some other random blonde, and someone had to explain to me that that was Buffy and Amy. If you don't know that's Buffy on the bed, you don't know she's having dreams, you don't know the Xander stuff wasn't real.... throws the whole thing off.

Re: Buffy 8.02 spoilers below

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

I agree that the art, especially on Amy (yikes), hasn't been the best. I think too that Joss is very deliberately writing these comics like episodes of the show (it's different from his style on X-Men to be sure). It's good and bad, because it makes the things we're missing all the more obvious.

If you don't know that's Buffy on the bed, you don't know she's having dreams, you don't know the Xander stuff wasn't real.... throws the whole thing off.

You thought Xander's head really fell off? ;)

Re: Buffy 8.02 spoilers below

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

At first, I did. I was really confused.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The art may be better on the ATS serial. I've noticed on the whole that the art associated with Brian Lynch's comics is better than the Buffy ones. They are done as mini-series or graphic novels so that helps.
There's a cinemgraphic quality to them and from what I've read of Whedon's interviews - he appears to want to stick with that.

Lynch is by far the best writer I've seen on these. And he's an ATS geek.
Big time.

That also helps.

I'm picky about characterization when it comes to canon. Very picky.
And I'll admit, I'm struggling a little with the Buffy S8 - Buffy seems off to me. Xander and Andrew are on. So is Dawn. But I'm on the fence about how he's writing Buffy and wondering how much input SMG really had - I'm starting to think more than I realized. That said, I'm taking a wait and see attitude. And it's only bits and pieces here and there.

Agree on the art - the last issue's was disappointing. Amy looked a lot like Buffy in that issue.