Flogging the Dead Horse - the Buffy Comics Issue 34 Poll & A Drabble

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I know everyone is sick of this by now, but indulge me. This is your way of stating your piece without having to write anything and making someone work to figure out what your opinion was. Also to see if you truly are in the minority.

Regarding the ships wars? I came up with a little drabble. Not to be outdone by Harmony, now that she's become super-buffy, Buffy has chosen to go on Harm's reality talk fest to set things right, once and for all.

Harmony: So, Buffy, curious vamps want to know - which vampire is it?? Which one is your one true love? Angel or Spike?

Buffy: Uh, who says I have to pick one? I mean - could you choose? Say it was between Christian Bale and Daniel Craig? And you could have both?

Harm (fans herself): You do have a point. I mean I've had my blondie bear and he's ...(she catches Buffy's glare and coughs), moving on. So, you can't pick between Daniel Craig and Christian Bale?

Buffy: Have you seen them...naked? I mean really? Daniel's all Mr. Bond, the hitman with that devilish snarky smile, and Christian ---that square jaw, those brooding eyes..

Harm: Let's put this another way - you know that game going around online? Who would you marry, shag, and throw off the cliff?

Buffy: Well, first - I don't ever plan on getting married, just so we're straight on that. I mean, really, come on, have you seen how many people I have to take care of? And look at what happened with my Mom? So over the whole marriage thing! And throwing off the cliff? I'd throw Angel - because he's super-human and could survive it, which I guess leaves shagging Spike? But then Angel could join in afterwards.

Harm: Okaaay...if Spike and Angel were cookies and you could have just one, which one would it be?

Buffy: If they were cookies? Did Angel tell you about my cookie dough speech because if he did he is sooo staked, and I'm not -

Harm: Cookie dough speech?

Buffy (blushing): Forget I said anything, you were uh saying?

Harmy: Forgotten. Out of curiousity what cookies would they be?

Buffy: Well Spike's definitely chocolate chip - because hello, chip! Get it! (Harm looks bewildered) Oh never mind. And Angel...a...snickerdoodle.

Harm: So you'd pick Spike.

Buffy: Again why couldn't I have both? I really don't get this whole choosing thing? I mean they are vamps, and they've been with each other and alll...you know, in that special way...

Harm: Ahhh...hem. Let's put this another way - which one do you love the most?

Buffy (thinks hard): I love them both?

Harm: The same way?

Buffy: No different, they are different. Don't be silly. Can't love them exactly the same.
But with same intensity? OOOH Yeah! I mean honestly, why choose? I love them both. There you have it from the proverbial slayer's mouth!

Harm: Well there you have it...straight from the...ahem, slayer's mouth!








[Poll #1551689]

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I've read so much meta on the comics that I can't recall who said it, but we could have gotten an interesting commentary on Buffy and Angel's differing methods of saving the world - if they had gone in that direction.

I shared this same opinion on Buffy Forums. That it could've been an epic clash of differing philosophies, Buffy and Angel fighting not only to save the world, but fighting each other on how to save it. Once again, this is where I'm taking my cue and writing my own way. I just hate how epic it could've been if the story had kept Buffy and Angel as themselves. The tension should be from them being themselves, not being glowhypnol'd.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I have to agree...this story would have been far more interesting if it had not chosen to regress the characters and focus on sexuality.
I felt the same way about Dawn's arc - which felt to me, from the very beginning, to be a series of male sex jokes. (I collected jokes and ghost stories years ago - and they all had one thing in common, fear of women or a need to diminish or belittle a woman. ) I think Whedon is doing a feminist nightmare - which is depicting all the ways that men can't handle female power, that our society derides and resists female power, and distorts it. Which would work better if Whedon were female, Scott Allie were female, and George Jeanty were female - and not white men with privileges women don't have. It would be like a white person writing story about slavery or how blacks have been abused. It comes off as patronizing, as well as condescending. Also, there's just certain things you cannot understand.

What annoys me about these comics - is they had the power to make a positive statement, to provide a female superhero comic that explored interesting ideas and was uplifting and empowering.
But instead they...well...it's disappointing. And not what I wanted. Which probably means, I should stop reading and move elsewhere. Except I like the fandom interaction. ;-) Heck if it weren't for the fandom interaction, I probably would have given up on it long before now.

Anyhow...speaking of fandom. I want more of your story - "Thought You Should Know" - because at the moment, Spike is stuck in the trunk of a car having a rather snarky and annoyed conversation with Connor - who can't find Buffy's safehouse, because Willow magically hid it, and Buffy and Faith are out in the field with a rocket launcher and looney tunes cartoons on their arms. I want to know what is going to happen next. I'm actually more interested in what's going to happen in your story than in the stupid comic book. Because I can pretty much predict what Whedon is going to do next there...and it ain't pretty, while I've no clue what you are going to do.