Outside of spoiler cuts, I will just say it's looking more and more as if I will have to eat that tripe or whatever it was that the poll ended up as.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/comic-previews/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-season-10-14-dark-horse-comics-2015 I would like to wallow shamelessly in these pages, because we have NEVER gotten this kind of canon treatment of Spuffy before. Spike and Buffy have kitten sex, for crying out loud. Of course I can't relax and enjoy it, because I'm still pretty sure that the writers will chortle cruelly at some point, and CRUSH US LIKE BUGS again. I swear,
shipperx's Post-Traumatic Joss Syndrome is a real thing.
(As an aside, I would like to point to these panels as examples of what drawings of Buffy wearing actual, discernable expressions look like.)
I am totally bemused at the reaction of some of the B/A shippers, though. Seriously, guys, it sucks when the story doesn't go your way, but I can't imagine that this will last forever. Give it a few issues and Buffy will be mooning after Angel again, because that's just the way things roll when you're a never-aging comic character whose past is constantly being retconned. Sometimes I wonder if that's not the ultimate solution to this mess: comic book characters routinely have a massive tangle of contradictory canon from various versions dragging after them, and their fandoms deal. We can have Earth-1 Buffy who ends up with Angel, and Earth 616 Buffy who ends up with Spike, and Ultimate Buffy who ends up in a threesome with Faith and Giles! Everybody wins!
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