Yep, Buffy comics are fan fic

[kudagirl]

I tried reading the Buffy comics and just couldn't stand them.
Season eight seemed to be badly written fan fic to me and I
might have been right.

"Talking more about the Buffy comics, Whedon addressed the "Buffy and Angel

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[red_satin_doll]

Season eight seemed to be badly written fan fic to me and I might have been right.

I can never decide if they're just that or if they're also meant to be - my theory anyway - a parody of fanfiction tropes. Certainly the Buffy saves the world with her vagina has been flipped, and there's strains of misogyny I also find in a lot of fanfiction - but if it's parody or not, I can't tell. The writers are trying to be too clever by half and end up being neither clever nor intelligent.

I recently saw the non-canon comic arc "Night of a Thousand Vampires" and the "Haunted" arc, both penned by Jane Espenson, and they're a lesson in how much better the "canon comics" could have been.

And sometimes you bring the sexy - because we're people."

[kudagirl]

Sorry if this hit a nerve. I don't get how Season Eight is canon. It's just a hot mess. Season nine, I've avoided. Comic Buffy is not my Buffy. It's almost like the Comics are a different universe/dimension. Buffy regressed to me in the comics. I'll stick to fandom fan fiction because it makes more sense.

[red_satin_doll]

I apologize if I came off too bitchy! the comics just do hit a nerve with me; lostboy-lj counselled me once to think of them the way I would unauthorized Star Wars spin-off novels, but with Joss' name on it I can't. This is the way he thinks about Buffy now? About how violating women's bodies and their free will is funny? Ugh.

[kudagirl]

That scene always makes me laugh. I love how Buffy finally realizes the reason Giles buffs his glasses.

Good fan fiction cures all the evil from the comics. LOL!

[lifefailsme]

I, like you, stopped reading them, for the same reason as you.

[kudagirl]

For one, I hate the art. Most of the characters look far too young. Sometimes I don't even know who the character is because they don't look like the actors. I know David and Sarah have the rights to their images, but the others didn't get that

[lifefailsme]

Yeah the artwork was pretty silly and while some of them caught a feature it was not very many and yeah, they did all look like teenagers. Spike's was just awful in everything I saw with him and I just gave up, sticking heavy cheekbones on a random face does not a Spike make...

Oh IKR, I think it is possible we both stopped reading around the same time!

[kudagirl]

I read only about two issues and then stopped. The little I know of them now is from my flist who still read them.

There was on book cover that had Spike's eyes the wrong color. Many an artist of fandom ranted over that.