Lots of moaning ahead I’m afraid on the changes that have been made with the new Buffy comics

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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer': Jordie Bellaire, Jeanine Schaeffer Talk Taking the "Ultimate Marvel" Approach to the New Series

JB: I think me and Jeanine when we first started talking about the project, we both talked about how we both love Willow. I think Willow definitely has a lot of charm being this sweet, quiet, bookish girl, but she really

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This sounds terrible. Through and through.

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Heh it is a bit ironic that them attempting to promote the comic is what’s turning some of us off even more! I really feel like they’re missing an essential part of what made those characters interesting though if they want to skip straight ahead to badass witch Willow, or talk about Spike as William. You need to start off with the insecure and shy Willow in order to get to why she got carried away with magic and power. You need to start with the arrogant and cocky Spike before you reveal that a lot of that started off as posturing and a reinvention of his human self. Talking instead about poor put-upon Spike, or confident Willow who speaks her mind, that’s taking away all of the layers that made those characters interesting in the first place

And Drusilla sounds like a completely different character anyway, so there’s that.

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Kind of represents the whole problem with reboots, huh? They want the built-in audience but they don't want to do any of the work that was put into the original to make it great.

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:nods: That’s exactly how it comes across to me, that they just want to use the Buffy names (and the actors likeness) so that they have a build-in audience, but what they are really wanting to do is tell their own storyline with a brand new modern slayer and her friends. And that’s absolutely fine, but then why not just call it a slayer spin-off?! It’s not exactly a Buffy reboot if you begin by changing the characters so much so that Willow Rosenbaum is walking around dressed up in the sort of midriff bearing outfits that Buffy was unsuccessfully trying to convince her to wear as a costume on Halloween by telling her that it’s a come as you aren’t night

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Yeah that outfit was ridiculous. Willow was the first element of the show that made me fall in love with it, because she was so different from every other female character on TV. Now she's just another comic book hot girl.