Are they trying to relate it back to the pregnancy scare/not really a pregnancy scare? Or are the fanboys assuming that menopause would be a punishment for Buffy not settling down to do "feminine" pursuits, like getting married *cough*to-average-joe-beta-male-Xander(who is totally not supposed to be a stand-in for themselves)*cough*, having children, and being barefoot in the kitchen?
I'm sure they are. Scott Allie truly believes in negative attention being the best thing for DH, which is a shame. They used to be indie, used to be innovative, and now they're just this sad, tired entity that would rather release twelve issues of a crap series, drop it, and then just release another crap series right after (rinse, lather, audience vomits, repeat), than actually producing quality material. I mean, Hellboy was all they had going for them, and now they're even screwing that up. It's really a damned shame, but I wish they'd just drop out of sight and just let IDW step up (their Lock & Key and Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse series are just great). But IDW would just fall into the same trappings too. The only ones that get away from it are the Big Two- Marvel and DC- and that's just because they can afford to have a zillion titles, so if one fails, it's not as big of a deal. Sigh. I miss enjoying comics. *re-reads Spike: Asylum for the quadrillionth time).
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Date: 2012-01-07 08:38 pm (UTC)I am torn right now between I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW and actually wondering how in the hell they came up with that...
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Date: 2012-01-07 08:49 pm (UTC)I know nothing beyond what I'm reading in this post, lol, but I'm going with it.
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Date: 2012-01-07 09:04 pm (UTC)Onset menopause in your mid-twenties? That's one helluva game changer.
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Date: 2012-01-07 10:11 pm (UTC)I mean, WTF.
And I would question the obsession with her reproduction system... but then Whedon keeps using those metaphors so...