Might they finally do Spikelus?

[infinitewhale]

So for some reason I was thinking about the comics last night at work, namely the last couple issues and the released covers for the next few. They seem to be pushing the Spuffy hard. A little too hard if you ask me. When was the last time they released a TPB cover before the first issue of said trade installment was out, much less 2 months before

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[shapinglight]

Re the Big Bad, at some point, whoever it is who wrote the rules in the Vampyr! book that made the vampires get more powerful will be revealed, I assume. But since this hasn't been mentioned for several issues readers might well have forgotten about it, so the mention will seem less like foreshadowing, and more like a ridiculous deus ex machina.

So if this mysterious person/demon/whatever is the Big Bad Gage had better hint at it again soon.

Or maybe there really isn't one? That, if nothing, would be novel.

I agree they're pushing Spuffy pretty hard at this point, which is all the more reason to be pessimistic about it in the long run.

I also agree that Buffy came across as quite naive (or else as trying to boost Spike's ego in a rather inept way) in saying Spike without a soul wasn't so bad, but for her to discover just how naive she's been by Spike going evil again and - oh, I dunno, trying to rape Dawn or whatever, just sounds way too edgy for this book.

In other words, I have no idea what they're going to do, just that it will, as Sue says, all end in tears.

You're making up that thing about the three issue Andrew arc, right?

[infinitewhale]

Re the Big Bad, at some point, whoever it is who wrote the rules in the Vampyr! book that made the vampires get more powerful will be revealed, I assume.

I thought about that, too. The book never left their possession, though, afaik, except for the brief stints in S10 and the more powerful vamps were already around then. We could be asked for conveniently forget that, though.

oh, I dunno, trying to rape Dawn or whatever, just sounds way too edgy for this book.

Oh, definitely not that. Though it wouldn't shock me if they'd have him kill her or Xander or something.

You're making up that thing about the three issue Andrew arc, right?

Well, Espenson and Greenberg are supposed to do something with Andrew at some point. Maybe it'll be the back part of this upcoming arc. I was just guessing.

I just look at it from a tragedy angle. They're pushing the Core Four-ness hard. Something will happen to split them up. They're pushing the Spuffy hard, something will happen there. As hard as they're pushing, the 'thanks but no thanks' thing doesn't seem to fit the bill.

Or it could all just take the most mundane route possible. Wouldn't be new territory there, either.

[shapinglight]

Or it could all just take the most mundane route possible. Wouldn't be new territory there, either.

Well, it is usually what you see is what you get (has been right from the start of season 8, despite some people still claiming how wonderful and layered the writing was then compared to now).

In this case, though, I'm not quite what I'm seeing yet, except the cover for the second TPB has 'thanks but no thanks' body language on it for Buffy and Spike, which is what made me go with the 'end of season 3' scenario.

I just look at it from a tragedy angle. They're pushing the Core Four-ness hard. Something will happen to split them up.

Normally, I would agree with you, but since season 9 did that already, maybe they've decided to keep them together this time?

Though of course if you're going to have your six main characters (if you include Spike and Dawn) be all cosy with each other all through the story, your drama is going to have to come from somewhere else, which would suggest you need a much stronger external threat than we've seen so far.

Oh I dunno. I just know whatever they do, I'll probably hate it.

[infinitewhale]

In this case, though, I'm not quite what I'm seeing yet, except the cover for the second TPB has 'thanks but no thanks' body language on it for Buffy and Spike, which is what made me go with the 'end of season 3' scenario.

I've thought that since that whole dream short Joss did way back in 2009. I still think S9-S10 are just re-imaginings of the S8 themes.

Though of course if you're going to have your six main characters (if you include Spike and Dawn) be all cosy with each other all through the story, your drama is going to have to come from somewhere else, which would suggest you need a much stronger external threat than we've seen so far.

Looks like Bat!Drac or that Mallomar guy is also on that TPB cover. Or just some random vamp since they can do that now. Maybe Dylan is a vampire.

Oh I dunno. I just know whatever they do, I'll probably hate it.

It's safe to assume it won't be good.

[shapinglight]

I've thought that since that whole dream short Joss did way back in 2009. I still think S9-S10 are just re-imaginings of the S8 themes.

Well, as I've probably mentioned on more than one occasion, I was perfectly fine with the way the 'triangle' ended in TGiQ, and would have been happy with Spike and Angel ride off into the sunset to fight evil together forever and leave Buffy in peace.

Until Gage insisted on writing the Spike/Angel relationship in A&F as if nothing in season 8 had changed anything and Angel was still the smarter, nobler older brother.

Now, I'm not so sure.

I just want a more mature dynamic between them. I don't think that means it can't be funny any more, just that all the jokes shouldn't be at Spike's expense, as they were all through AtS season 5 until TGiQ and as they went back to being in A&F :spit: 20.