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Since there are probably a couple of you who would be interested in this, but might not have heard...
Joss is working on next season of Buffy!
In fact, it's available right now... on the shelves of your local comics shop.
Taking a page, so to speak, from Greg Weisman (writer/creator of Gargoyles), he's continuing the series in comic book format. Issue 1 is, as I mentioned, out on the stands now.
It's pretty cool. I mean, most comics based on TV shows are just subpar attempts to squeeze a little more profit out of the franchise. But when you have the guy who, in some sense, is the series as the guy in charge of the comic book (writing it, making the major calls, etc), that's a whole different ball game. It's like that with Gargoyles (which I mentioned a few entries down), and now with Buffy.
Issue 1 shows us what some of the major players have been up to, has a bit of good action, a few surprises, some humor, and even manages to fix one of the stupid nonsensical things they did in one of those awful eps from the end of the last season of Angel. In short... it's just like any decent ep of Buffy.
The only thing that could make it all better was if John Cassaday (Joss's partner on Astonishing X-Men - Yes, Joss had his own X-men book. It's in the final arc now.) was doing the art. I mean, the art is pretty good as it is, but Cassaday's work on AXM just rocks.
Joss is working on next season of Buffy!
In fact, it's available right now... on the shelves of your local comics shop.
Taking a page, so to speak, from Greg Weisman (writer/creator of Gargoyles), he's continuing the series in comic book format. Issue 1 is, as I mentioned, out on the stands now.
It's pretty cool. I mean, most comics based on TV shows are just subpar attempts to squeeze a little more profit out of the franchise. But when you have the guy who, in some sense, is the series as the guy in charge of the comic book (writing it, making the major calls, etc), that's a whole different ball game. It's like that with Gargoyles (which I mentioned a few entries down), and now with Buffy.
Issue 1 shows us what some of the major players have been up to, has a bit of good action, a few surprises, some humor, and even manages to fix one of the stupid nonsensical things they did in one of those awful eps from the end of the last season of Angel. In short... it's just like any decent ep of Buffy.
The only thing that could make it all better was if John Cassaday (Joss's partner on Astonishing X-Men - Yes, Joss had his own X-men book. It's in the final arc now.) was doing the art. I mean, the art is pretty good as it is, but Cassaday's work on AXM just rocks.