"My...life!"
I thought that was amusing, but I couldn't
get over the WTF of Mecha-Dawn in the first place. How long did it take them to build her? And they'd clearly studied Dawn in some way to imbue the 'bot with random personality traits and/or sayings, but...what?
And Drac saying to Willow...is *totally* from X-Men, and you KNOW he got that from hanging with Xander, which I love love LOVE!
It is? What is it from? I wasn't really sure what he meant. Also, I didn't even realize that was Dracula. I had trouble telling him apart from the other main vampire dude. I'm not really a huge fan of the art in this series.
The fact that that part of the panels wasn't very detailed actually really worked for me.
And that stuff is really irritating to me. Maybe because all the other comics I've been reading have had very detailed backgrounds.
And speaking of Willow, was the...
Yeah, that's what I thought of too, but
in the "bad" scene...okay, I just double-checked, and that snake lady is greenish, just like the one in this issue. Might be the same one.
Oh, and I agree with what you said about Dracula.
is *totally* from X-Men, and you KNOW he got that from hanging with Xander, which I love love LOVE!
It is? What is it from? I wasn't really sure what he meant.
(I'm hoping an actual X-Men fan can elaborate on my explanation, because I've only read Astonishing X-Men.) Anyway,
"To me, my X-Men!"
is a classic
Professor Xavier
phrase, which was repeated by Cyclops in AXM #23, when they pulled off a kickass switcheroo on the bad guys.
And what he meant was pretty much what he told Willow, which was (paraphrased),
"Get your ass over here!"
I agree with you on the utter WTF-ness of the very existence of
mecha-Dawn,
but I was so damned amused by
Andrew and his apotheosis of geekiness
that I was willing to go handwavey.
Also, I didn't even realize that was Dracula. I had trouble telling him apart from the other main vampire dude.
All the flowy dark hair, right? I had to look a couple of times to be sure who was who, but then I realized that they were wearing different colored shirts, and so I could differentiate them then.
The fact that that part of the panels wasn't very detailed actually really worked for me.
And that stuff is really irritating to me.
I normally dislike it a lot. But there was something about how the lack of detail made the moment understated, and the understatedness had more emotional impact -- for me -- than any technicolor large-font panel could have had.
Seriously, I normally hate that stuff. It slid under my radar, though.
AXM #23, when they pulled off a kickass switcheroo on the bad guys.
Belatedly, I want to say that that was awesome. Because I was totally suspecting it, and it made a lot of sense. Go team. (And the revisited scene was really, really amusing. Oh, Kitty.)
(I don't want to spoil, but I also don't want to inappropriately use spoilerfont, so I'm being vague.)
All the flowy dark hair, right?
Right! On the first or second page, when
Dracula tells Buffy she can save them, I was SO CONFUSED because I thought it was the other guy. I had to look really closely and then remember that Dracula was there to begin with.
I concur. I think I like the humor of this arc but not so much more. I love the bit at the
end where Xander tells Drac to stop calling him manservant. Could Xander be becoming a little more hard like Wesley did?
Is
Dracula the new Spike? I mean why is it OK for Drac to be alive and kicking (so to speak - dead and kicking?)?
I guess once you've financed your operation with stolen loot, lots of things start to slide.
I mean, I'm cool with it, because I really enjoyed the arc of this, but I'm wondering what it means to be an evil evil vampire now.
Yeah, I had the same thought, Frank.
I guess once you've financed your operation with stolen loot, lots of things start to slide.
Wait, I thought that was just a hypothetical future vision thing.
Wait, I thought that was just a hypothetical future vision thing.
I've never been 100% clear on whether those visions were things that had happened that they didn't want anyone else to know or things that might.
Wait, I thought that was just a hypothetical future vision thing.
I've never been 100% clear on whether those visions were things that had happened that they didn't want anyone else to know or things that might.
They've referred to the stolen loot in another issue after the one in which it was introduced. I just can't remember which one. And now that the current issue also showed the
green snake/serpent goddess/demon/whatever
that we saw with
Willow in the
"stolen loot" issue, I'm think the fact that both scenarios were referred to in subsequent issues means that they were really real, not potentially real.
