Thinky Thoughts on Buffy Comics Season 8 Number 34 Omnibus

[owenthurman]

Now that 35 is about to come out, I'd like to publish a last minute thought on 34.

Call Me Nostradamus

I wrote a fanfic called Queen Maud just after issue 33, back in March, which I labeled with a sarcastic warning, “contains spoilers for Buffy Season 8 comics issues 34 and 35.” Officially, I don't get to see previews of the issues a month

Comments

[beer_good_foamy]

"Oh," the redheaded witch smiles, "you silly boys; we had a time in Sunnydale, didn't we?"

Heee. You should post this to comicsnarkathon.

In issue 34, Giles says, "I needed to know how to kill a god." So far as we know, there is only one mortal who has ever killed a god in the Buffyverse. Giles is uniquely qualified; he already knows how.

Well, according to Allie, all he'd needed to do was tell Buffy what was happening and he would have averted the whole thing. Clearly that was too hard.

So Angel, like his name sounds, is a big girl.

*snerk*

Spike's soul was an accident, an act of outrageous free will against the omniverse's plan. He couldn't ever be the agent of the Twilight.

Heh. That actually makes sense.

Even Angel should know better, though he was taken in by Jasmine, wasn't he?

And he grieved for what happened to Cordelia, so it would make sense that he would put a whole lot of hard work into making the same thing happen to Buffy. Except not.

[owenthurman]

Thanks for commenting. I really liked your concentrated crack snarkathon entry. I really wanted to like the comics story more than I can, but snarking about it is at least some kind of bonus.

[fangfaceandrea]

That Giles Ficlet was just brilliant, loved every single thing about it.

And can I just re-post this all over the internet? specially twitter: "They say you can only wank so much before your hand gets tired" bwahahahahahaha

[owenthurman]

loved every single thing about it

I started missing the real Giles in Season Seven. Now I had to explain somehow what was going on in his head in issue 34, just for the sake of writing something about it here. And I discovered that the only plausible backstory also explained pod Giles from S7 and especially LMPTM. So there had to be at least a tiny bit of fic.

Please re-post promiscuously!

[rebcake]

Mmmmm. I sort of love the angsty Giles one. It might not happen that way, but it probably works better than what we'll get. *expectations are low*

One squad of slayers sacrificed to [Andrew's] pathetic leadership was a small price to pay

That'll teach ya to focus on the greater good!

[owenthurman]

I sort of love the angsty Giles one

Thank you. That one wasn't even planned when I outlined this post. It slipped its way in.

[norwie2010]

That was hilarious! Thank you.

PS: I also want to apologize to you because i never came back to your post on linguistics, such an interesting theme and unfortunately no time...

[owenthurman]

You're welcome.

i never came back to your post

Happens all the time; it's Livejournal. Don't worry. Someday it'll come back around.