Okay, after George Lucas did the Star Wars films, people wrote novels about what would happen next. The story has continued in another format. Here Whedon has decided to take the Buffy series into comics to continue the story. What Whedon has done is no different than say a Alan Dean Foster writing stories about what happens next in the Star Wars universe, or Rockne S. Obannion writing what happens next in the Farscape, or Brian Lynch writing what happens next in Angelverse or Willingham for that matter. All are legitimate stories. All are continuations. Fanfic? Same deal - they are that writer's take on what would happen next.
Canon? Doesn't exist from this point forward. You can say it is canonical to Joss Whedon/Brad Meltzer/Scott Allie/and George Jeanty's vision of how it would continue, with Drew Goddard, Doug Petrie, Brian K. Vaughn, Jeff Loeb, and Jane Espenson contributing. But it is not a continuation of what the cast, crew, writers and producers of the tv series would envision. Same deal with IDW - the Angel comics are canonical to the writer writing them.
Does that make sense? Canon discussions can be head-ache inducing because everyone defines it differently, apparently. So we end up arguing about semantics.
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Okay, after George Lucas did the Star Wars films, people wrote novels about what would happen next. The story has continued in another format. Here Whedon has decided to take the Buffy series into comics to continue the story. What Whedon has done is no different than say a Alan Dean Foster writing stories about what happens next in the Star Wars universe, or Rockne S. Obannion writing what happens next in the Farscape, or Brian Lynch writing what happens next in Angelverse or Willingham for that matter.
All are legitimate stories. All are continuations. Fanfic? Same deal - they are that writer's take on what would happen next.
Canon? Doesn't exist from this point forward. You can say it is canonical to Joss Whedon/Brad Meltzer/Scott Allie/and George Jeanty's vision of how it would continue, with Drew Goddard, Doug Petrie, Brian K. Vaughn, Jeff Loeb, and Jane Espenson contributing. But it is not a continuation of what the cast, crew, writers and producers of the tv series would envision. Same deal with IDW - the Angel comics are canonical to the writer writing them.
Does that make sense? Canon discussions can be head-ache inducing because everyone defines it differently, apparently. So we end up arguing about semantics.