Buffy Comic Poll - Have you now or have you ever tried the Buffy comics?

[shadowkat]

This poll is at the request of shapinglight and in direct response to a discussion shapinglight, beergoodfoamy and I were having regarding comic readership. We were wondering how many of the television fans actually read or were reading the comics, how many were continuing to read them or had given up, why they'd given up, why they were still reading, and how many were fans of the comics but not of the tv series. Not sure this poll will answer any of those questions. But hey, it's worth a shot.

So please pass the link along...the more responses the better. Especially if you are fan and have never read the comics, or are a fan and started to read them and gave up? Please respond to the poll - you only have to respond to a couple of questions...since the latter ones don't apply to non-readers of the comics.

Polls are tough to create - because you can't edit the things. You always forget something. So if I did, just explain your take in the comments, keeping in mind that I can't edit the poll! And you are dependent on people responding to them. But they are also a lot more fun and more informative than memes...in my opinon. Anyhow...thanks.


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Comments

[erimthar.livejournal.com]

Good poll... I haven't understood much of the season 8 hate. The comics haven't been guilty of anything the TV show wasn't also guilty of. I'm happy to see the story moving onward and upward, instead of just rehashing the way things used to be as some sort of "comfort food."

However, (my pet peeve) -- the phrase "considering something canon" is meaningless. The comics are either canon or they aren't... that's something Joss gets to decide, not us. And they are canon (the Buffy comics and the After the Fall ones), because Joss wrote and/or executive-produced them. Just like the TV show.

People can decide to ignore whatever portions of the story they want, but that has nothing to do with whether it's canon or not.

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

Word. :)

[angearia.livejournal.com]

So much word.

[skipp-of-ark.livejournal.com]

Word cubed. Also, the title of the show and comics is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which means the one character fundamentally required is Buffy. Anybody with their nose out of joint because their favorite deceased character hasn't been resurrected, or because one character who died in the final televised episode and was brought back and made a regular on another show but hasn't suddenly materialized and started hogging the spotlight of BtVS once again, needs to realize that.