Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 8!
// January 7th, 2007 // My Stuff
OK, so the title may be slightly misleading, but Joss Whedon has decided to realize all his visions for Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in comic format.
Here is the marketing summary about the book:
Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers — newly legion — have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything’s fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains . . . Buffy creator Joss Whedon brings Buffy back to Dark Horse in this direct follow-up to season seven of the smash-hit TV series.
Quick facts about this exciting project:
– Published by Dark Horse Comics
– Begins in March 2007
– Will run 20-30 issues.
– Will be stretched over 2-3 years, coming out monthly
– All stories will be official series canon (unlike previous licensed Buffy/Angel comics)
– All major characters will be making appearances
– Joss has created an over arching story (big bad) that will guide the series
– Joss will write the first 4 issue, last four issues, and a smattering in between
– Major comic writers have been signed up to write including Brian K Vaughan
– Original series writers will be involved in issues
– 1800 slayers exist, with 500 actively fighting evil as a team with Buffy
– Georges Jeanty is drawing the book, cover art by Jo Chen
– A comic book Season 9 is not ruled out!
In the TVGuide.com interview with Joss, the first five pages of issue 5 were revealed. I have compiled those into a CBZ file here for your enjoyment.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Issue 1 (Preview).cbr (right click save as)
I preordered my copy today at Discount Comic Book Service (only $0.74) and I just can’t wait!
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And did you pre-order mine too!!!????!!!!
I just watched the Vmars ep with Joss in it. Such a dink in that ep, hehe.
I certainly did (though a second issue does not grant as large a discounted price). I was looking forward to your comment on this ;)
[...] Buffy (the show, though I also loved the movie) was an amazing show. It survived one possible cancellation, but shows can only go on so long. Joss, as the creator had never really given up on Buffy, and now, Buffy returns in COMIC form!!!! The entire reason for this post is because Zach has done an entire post Over at Nosheep.net. Make sure you read his article because it has all the facts that will help to build your excitement!!!!!Also, here at TvGuide.com there is an interview with Joss. Here is a quote from the article. But the idea of doing movies about some of the ancillary characters got me really excited, because I love those actors and I love that world. That kind of fell through, but when I started working on the comic… I sketched out this sort of broad arc that would connect everything. Now it will probably only appear on the comic-book pages, but it will be really well drawn. [...]
Hmm… this may be enough to get me to try reading comics again. *gasp*
Buffy is horrible at people-management though, I hope she has someone to run her team for her!
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