Comments | fenderlove: Thoughts on Buffy #34.

fenderlove

Thoughts on Buffy #34.

Apr 08, 2010 03:49

Okay, I seriously am laughing so hard after reading this book. You know, I thought when it was over I'd be mega-pissed, like pissed like a Mega-Shark going after a Giant Octopus pissed, but instead I'm literally ROTFLMAO ( Read more... )

angel, buffy, s8, comic, lol

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eilowyn April 8 2010, 10:04:04 UTC

This isn't a writer being subversive about shipping! This isn't good storytelling!

And therein lies the rub.

No matter how much fun we have mocking it (there's some real action in 2maggie2 's second post about the comics, about here, and be sure to watch the clip beer_good links to; then it all goes downhill on the boards), it's still a really poorly written comic. I've used the Iraq War analogy to describe Season 8 before - a really bad idea executed really, really badly - but this issue takes the cake. How it can be taken seriously is anyone's guess, but it ain't my Buffy, so why should I worry if she's OOC and so OTT I go OMGWTFBBQ?

If all this crap helps you to draw more comics, then maybe it serves a purpose for good not evil - but the jury's still out on that one.

fenderlove April 8 2010, 17:47:31 UTC

I sincerely thought about taking the framework of S8 and trying to redo it, but... I don't even think that the framework is anything to work with. O_o;;; I just don't know what I, as a fan, am supposed to make of these 34 comics that have been dreadful in writing, execution, and pacing from the very beginning.

mulder200 April 8 2010, 10:04:57 UTC

OMFG! You have got to be kidding me?! Seriously?! These people are professionals and they wrote/drew this shit!? My God!

I am so glad I switched to another fandom. Supernatural may have it's race and gender issues but at least it's entertaining to watch. This shit isn't!

fenderlove April 8 2010, 17:49:27 UTC

I wish I had another fandom... I guess I have Caprica, but... I think I should just return to drawing my Spike/OC comic and my fanfiction-writing. It's safer for my sanity rather than trying to figure this monstrosity out. XD

norwie2010 April 8 2010, 13:17:20 UTC

You voiced it! Top it off with a sexist marketing/advertisement strategy, mixing romanticism and esotericism (which leads, when put into an actual political ideology, to ... well you know it. Look at history) it is so bad i actually cannot eat as much as i want to vomit.

Even if the remaining 12% of the "story" turn out to be brilliant (and i suppose it will be better than what we had, Whedon at least knows how to write a punch line) it will not be able to draw this one out of the gutter.

I'm glad for you that you are able to laugh. I cannot. Which is at least part due to me being mad at myself for investing time and money into "season 8", being lured that way by the names of "Buffy" and "Whedon".

Ok, enough ranting here ;-) I'm sure i(t) will get better...

Thanks for your thoughts!

fenderlove April 8 2010, 18:00:38 UTC

Not to be a Negative Nancy, but I doubt it will get better late in the game. Even if it had an amazing ending, would the ends really justify 34 issues of bland, subpar dreck? XD

This whole comic reminds me of a comedy bit by Lewis Black about someone hearing something so stupid that it gives them an aneurysm and they die of stupidity. In his bit, he told of how he overheard a conversation at a waffle house that nearly caused such a calamity for him. He heard a woman say, "If it wasn't for my horse, I would have never spent that year in college." WTF? It's like you want to go and ask what that means, but you don't because you're at a waffle house and it would be impolite to ask. That's what this comic is to me- "If it wasn't for my horse, I would have never spent that year in college." It makes no sense and provides only questions and no answers. XD

shipperx April 8 2010, 15:18:30 UTC

5. Soooo... can I blame Hurricane Katrina on Bangel sex? Should Al Gore be notified? Does that mean that Fox News can blame Spuffy sex for healthcare reform? *imagines Spike forcing Glenn Beck to eat a piece of chalk and gets a happy* *imagines Spike and Angel having a fourway with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and gets another happy* :D

Bwha! This is win. I WANT this! Seriously, someone write it. :)

7. GILES! Do you not remember that Slayer poison from S3?! Why not just slip it into the damn water cooler before it got this far, you son of a bitch!?

JOSS: Continuity is for wusses.

8. Buffy's going to wind up pregnant. Oh, dear sweet baby Jesus

No. Oh, dear sweet mystical death baby Renesmee Cullen! (http://twilightsaga.wikia.com/wiki/Renesmee_Cullen)

fenderlove April 8 2010, 17:51:06 UTC

I unfortunately know who Renesmee is. I just hope that Buffy's penguin baby doesn't tear and rip its way out of her uterus. That would suck. XD

owenthurman April 8 2010, 15:31:24 UTC

Buffy is the Bristol Palin of Unwed Pregnant Slayers.

I am writing this prediction down.

fenderlove April 8 2010, 17:55:02 UTC

I can just imagine big ol' pregger Buffy trying to talk to the young Slayers- "Being unwed and pregnant and young with no income or prospects is WRONG!... except when I do it... but that's because I have a support system of friends and semi-family, so it's okay. Sure, I should have been more responsible since Scott Allie says I know all about Angel's son, so the possibility that he could have impregnated me was there, and maybe I should have reconsidered sleeping with the man who butchered so many of my sisters-in-arms, but... Where was I? Oh, yeah, you shouldn't get pregnant!"