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I somehow managed to get a copy of Spike #1.  I'm under strict orders to not spoil anything.  General reactions below the cut, along with some thoughts about the pages that have been previewed:

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I've been asked to write one of those endorsements of a book that appears on the back jacket.  Which is kind of cool, but weird.  I seldom read the endorsements by people whose name I don't recognize, and my name isn't that widely recognized.  Still, I get a copy of the book when it comes out in print as my big reward! 

local_max has a great post up about it here.

It took me a while to figure out my exact problem but it's this: Joss has given in to nihilism.  It'd be interesting to go back and re-listen to his Harvard talk on Humanistic Atheism, where he tries to affirm that value can be found in a godless world.  But in Cabin, well -- it had to end the way it did; but that ( Read more... )

I just had a good long email from Scott Allie about what was going on with this change. He's given me permission to summarize what he said ( Read more... )

The reviews are all right on. This is a terrific issue. Some details and reactions  (apologies for no cut, but LJ keeps mucking with the formatting):
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For some reason LJ keeps trashing my formatting.  Here's a link to my post at BF recapping the pages we haven't seen in A&F #1

http://buffyforums.net/forums/showpost.php?p=580998&postcount=28

It's like I never left California!  

The downgrade of the US credit rating is not a good sign.  The political dysfunction in this country is on my top five list of reasons why we're at the close of an historical era.  But that's an idle list that I keep for my own perverse amusement.  What's scary is that in the wake of the downgrade every one of the usual suspects is singing the ( Read more... )

I honestly read Buffy as tearing up (ever so slightly) in that last panel of the webcomic, and when I mentioned it the first few folks responding agreed with me, so I just took it for self-evident.  Anyway, turns out most people don't read it that way.  So I asked Georges and he said he thinks there's an emotional content to the question Buffy is ( Read more... )