BtVS Monthly Comic Whatever

[shipperx]

Now, admittedly, I haven't read it, just the summaries of it, but from the sounds of it, they didn't have time to make sense have significant character moments because they had to rush on to... boring us.

Ooh! Look, it's a 'Becoming' redux. Glad they bypassed character moments or coherent plot development for that. Let no dead horse be unbeaten.

*yawn*

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[elisi]

I'd completely forgotten that today was comic day. Ah well. I've decided that in the comics 'verse I ship Spike/Connor. I figure that's probably pretty safe since Connor's been forgotten. So, he can't be killed or OOC'd. :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

He's not important enough to kill. Or notice. Or have any real purpose in being there.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

I knew it was comic day the minute I logged onto sd_herald and saw very little in the way of fic posted. It's like everyone hunkers down for cover or something.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten it was comic day until the posts started popping up.

Seems this month it's really just that...boring. Half the cast is possessed, so they don't have to come up with character motivation and the others are just bland.

Also it pretty much cements that the Spuffy panels in the last issue where exactly what they looked like. Fan service without any actual meaning for the characters.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

That's basically been the story of the comics. I remember people being admonished for daring to think the Buffy/Satsu thing was just fanboy titilation and a desperate bid for attention... but that's basically what it's turned out to be.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

It really is pathetic. Isn't it.

Its so sad that something that was once good has devolved so far up its own arse into something so poor and repetitve.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Seriously, at this point, I don't think I have much positive to say about Joss any more. I mean he has his areas of talent, but I've just about lost sight of them under all the other... stuff.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Can Spike just beat these comics to death with a tire-iron?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

He can do that and set them on fire too.

Honestly, it floors me that THIS FAR IN we're still being told that it'll make sense in the 'next' issue (it's always the next issue) and even though we're given no indication any where of anything good in the offing, we're to perpetually believe that somehow Joss is going to make three plus years of pointlessness pay off in the end.

Sure, Joss. Surrrrre.

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

I'm more disappointed in myself for thinking it could end on a somewhat interesting note. Surely that can't be Angel on the 39 cover! They wouldn't be *that* predictable and lame. Oh, you foolish boy.

It's sad to see these characters reduced to nothing more than stereotypes. That's all they are is stereotypes. There is no characterization in it. That in and of itself wrecks the 'verse more than any glowy lion.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh I know. 'It can be Angel that's the betrayer. It's just too obvious.'

Only, painfully obvious or not, there it is.

What? You thought creativity was going to be involved?

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Biggest and most disappointing load of old crap I've ever read.

Whedon you should be ashamed of yourself.

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

Did you find a link?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It just seems like such a gigantic waste of ink.

Seriously, just tell us to pull out the DVDs of Season 2, already. NONE OF THIS IS NEW! Which only makes it more offensive.

[fangfaceandrea.livejournal.com]

Eh, at least if it's boring it won't intrude in my life too much. Also, it keeps proving that the deserters like me were right.I like being right.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I started these comics thinking they probably wouldn't accomplish much... and they've still undercut those incredibly low expectations. Honestly, I thought it would be bad but innocuous. Somehow Joss undershot my bottom of the barrel expectations!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I fell in love with your icon and snagged it. Has the Buffy issue 38 finally come out?? Seeing nothing on it. Although...haven't really looked either. (I miss BGF's reviews...they always had me giggling uncontrollably for twenty minutes.)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I gather there isn't much to tell.

Angel is still Twilight, evil again (but it still won't matter because 'it's not really him"), Willow's gone red-eyed invoking magic again, and Buffy ignores everyone in favor of specialest most special Angel because he's her OMG twu wuv. And there's an apocalypse coming. (And Spike gets insulted).

Nothing we haven't seen a half dozen times now. Nothing new here.

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

I just hate that it's so confusing. I keep feeling that there are panels missing. I honestly feel like I don't know what's going on half the time in the book.

Am I the only one that feels that way?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hell no.

It hardly makes any narrative sense. Maybe it does if you read it purely metaphorically (but I'm not holding my breath) but as straight-up narrative? It makes no damn sense at all.

[ubi4soft.livejournal.com]

Lamest Gleaming p3. Nice. Wonder if Angel will say afterward that it was him, but not really him..

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh, no doubt.

And, well, at least for this issue it looks like it might be true, which begs the question of why it's always written that way with Angel? If they insist on making him do awful things, the least they could do is make the character own it.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

So basically, Joss is now ripping off the classic Doom trollfic Repercussions of Evil?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I just hope we Whedonverse people don't end up like this guy, the actor who did the English translation of what must been an immensely confusing anime.

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

So I must wonder...

Are there any petitions or attempts at injunctions to stop this madness? Has someone made Joss aware of how pathetic the story has become (for the last what, year and a half?) or how much of a disappointment it, and by proxy, he is at this point?

Cause I think he should know.

[rahirah]

Telling Joss that his story isn't working seems to just make him more determined to tell it.