It has been waaay too long since I last posted *dusts off LJ*
First Look: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Cast Gets a Gen-Z Makeover From BOOM!
BOOM! Studios today unveiled the first look at characters designs from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER by Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan Mora (Klaus, Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers).
Debuting in comic shops on January 9th, 2019 in partnership with 20th Century Fox Consumer Products, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1 reimagines the groundbreaking pop culture phenomenon from the very beginning!
Alongside Mora, Eisner Award-nominated writer Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and series creator/story consultant Joss Whedon (the visionary writer/director behind Firefly, Marvel’sThe Avengers, and more) invite readers to meet a Buffy Summers like the one they know - trying to make friends at her new school, get decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil. But the Slayer’s world looks a lot more like the one outside your window, as this new series brings her into a new era with new challenges, new friends...and a few enemies you might already recognize (including fan-favorite Drusilla’s debut as THE MISTRESS).
Hmm not sure how I feel about some of the redesigns, the art is certainly well done and looks good, but I don’t recognise what they’ve done with the original characters in some cases...For example it seems a shame to completely lose Drusilla’s Victorian look, I can’t see the original character in suits at all? And Buffy looks cool, but it’s a little bit strange to see her more practically dressed in flannel and jeans when there was such an emphasis on her wanting to be traditionally ~girly~ during the high school years of the tv series, that conflict was a pretty big part of the show, no?
Willow is the strangest to me though, again she looks cool, but literally nothing like how high school Willow would ever dress? It was always bad fashion with that character, brightly coloured tights and garish pink jumpers, and here she’s in short skirts and midriff bearing tops? That just seems like the exact opposite of how Willow was portrayed before, she was certainly way too embarrassed to wear anything revealing when Buffy suggests it for Halloween, so how drastically are they rebooting here?
Nice to see that they kept Spike’s classic look the same as ever though *g* And apparently no designs released as yet for Giles, Cordelia, and Angel?
BOOM! Studios today unveiled the first look at characters designs from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER by Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan Mora (Klaus, Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers).
Debuting in comic shops on January 9th, 2019 in partnership with 20th Century Fox Consumer Products, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1 reimagines the groundbreaking pop culture phenomenon from the very beginning!
Alongside Mora, Eisner Award-nominated writer Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and series creator/story consultant Joss Whedon (the visionary writer/director behind Firefly, Marvel’sThe Avengers, and more) invite readers to meet a Buffy Summers like the one they know - trying to make friends at her new school, get decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil. But the Slayer’s world looks a lot more like the one outside your window, as this new series brings her into a new era with new challenges, new friends...and a few enemies you might already recognize (including fan-favorite Drusilla’s debut as THE MISTRESS).
Hmm not sure how I feel about some of the redesigns, the art is certainly well done and looks good, but I don’t recognise what they’ve done with the original characters in some cases...For example it seems a shame to completely lose Drusilla’s Victorian look, I can’t see the original character in suits at all? And Buffy looks cool, but it’s a little bit strange to see her more practically dressed in flannel and jeans when there was such an emphasis on her wanting to be traditionally ~girly~ during the high school years of the tv series, that conflict was a pretty big part of the show, no?
Willow is the strangest to me though, again she looks cool, but literally nothing like how high school Willow would ever dress? It was always bad fashion with that character, brightly coloured tights and garish pink jumpers, and here she’s in short skirts and midriff bearing tops? That just seems like the exact opposite of how Willow was portrayed before, she was certainly way too embarrassed to wear anything revealing when Buffy suggests it for Halloween, so how drastically are they rebooting here?
Nice to see that they kept Spike’s classic look the same as ever though *g* And apparently no designs released as yet for Giles, Cordelia, and Angel?