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

[frelling_tralk]

'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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[frelling_tralk]

Oh interesting, you might be might about that! It did seem like it was very clearly spoken of as a Buffy reboot in the beginning before all the backlash, but then I was convinced when the showrunner involved came forward to say that she loved the original characters and that was never the plan, but yes it does seem rather telling that it’s all died down since then.

Also I’ve been reading some fan reviews of the comics today, and it seems like even the character of Buffy herself has been changed a lot as well. I do feel kind of bad for being so grumpy about the comics when I’ve never even read them, and it does sound like they are very well done as comics to be fair, but it did stand out to me that even Buffy herself seems to have done a 180 from the tv series and from the film. This review mentions that she comes across as more of an introverted nerd who likes comic books than she does a former cheerleader, and she no longer seems to care about clothes much as she dresses very practically https://buffylikescoke.tumblr.com/post/182303065990/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-1

And at what point do we say that that sounds like a very cool new slayer character for today, but why exactly are you calling her Buffy Summers?

[infinitewhale]

I can send a link to the comic if you want. But yeah, Buffy is nothing like Buffy. It's irksome, but that's been true of all the comics. Even in Whedon's, she's a brainless sociopath for the most part. In this, she doesn't dress like her, doesn't talk like her, doesn't have her personality... I can't help but be bugged that the writers don't ever seem to have anything to say about her, either.

Much like there was a point to Willow, there was an even bigger one to Buffy. She was the blonde, personable, popular, fashionable, preppy-ish girl that gets hacked up in an alley in horror films. Helen from IKWYDLS (I don't think it's a coincidence they lifted angles from that movie for Helpless). To change that, is to not be Buffy Summers. Even Giles, he's kind of like a wikipedia version of him. He's more S3 Wes than Giles. About the only character that is much like their TV counterpart is Xander.

The art is great (save the blue eyes whhyyyyy). That's about it.

[frelling_tralk]

Totally agree with all your points on Buffy :) She was a very specific character archetype from the beginning, the entire concept of the show was build around it. And this has nothing to do with anything really lol, but I feel bad for Helen every time when she almost makes it out of that alley, she and Ryan’s character were the more interesting characters than the ones who survived by far

I can't help but be bugged that the writers don't ever seem to have anything to say about her, either

And I find that very odd as well, in all of the questions about the character changes Buffy never really comes up, so I assumed that meant that she wasn’t going to be portrayed very differently. I would have thought the main character would be the first one you talk about when you’re selling your reboot though :shrugs:

And I would love a link if you have one! I have seen a d/l on my flist, but it doesn’t seem to work with my iPad when I click on it, and I’m still computerless at the moment

[infinitewhale]

For most links you need a cbr reader or something to change extensions to .rar and then unzip them. You might not have all that on a phone.

http://userscloud.com/1ud3p9wxerrf

You can read it here, though, without having to DL anything.

http://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/105491178

You can ignore everything after 105491440.

[frelling_tralk]

Thank you! :)