The Buffy comics have certainly helped cement Joss as being able to use comics to tell a story and it be highly profitable. I'm not surprised the run has been extended to 50 issues (4 years!).
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Kevin - Mar 25, 2007 12:11:26 pm PDT #316 of 5059
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
SailAweigh - Mar 25, 2007 3:41:30 pm PDT #317 of 5059
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Tell you what, that makes me very, very happy. I was hoping for maybe a year's worth of comics. This is just fan-fucking-tastic.
Zenkitty - Mar 25, 2007 3:52:25 pm PDT #318 of 5059
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Wow. That's fantastic!
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2007 4:29:54 pm PDT #319 of 5059
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm not surprised the run has been extended to 50 issues
Is JW committed to overseeing the entire run, or just the first X issues?
Tamara - Mar 25, 2007 8:24:39 pm PDT #320 of 5059
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
I can't imagine he would let it out of his control now.
Jon B. - Mar 26, 2007 1:27:25 am PDT #321 of 5059
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Well, there were plenty of Buffy comics while the TV series was running that he had nothing to do with.
sumi - Mar 26, 2007 4:37:04 am PDT #322 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, but they were mostly not good.
Jon B. - Mar 26, 2007 4:41:51 am PDT #323 of 5059
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That\'s my point, Sumi.
JoeCrow - Mar 26, 2007 7:47:24 am PDT #324 of 5059
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Yeah, but then he had the series to point at and say "That's the real Buffy, and I'm doing it." Now, the comic is the only real Buffy he's got to do. He can't let other folks do it unless he trusts them, because the comic is all the real Buffy there is coming out.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 26, 2007 3:40:10 pm PDT #325 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
According to the article linked above he's writing the first 5, about half of the 50 or so total, and breaking the stories for the rest with other writers (indluding Ultimate Drew) in very similar fashion to how the wriers' room worked on the television series.
I have been dying to read this thread, but didn't get my grubby little hands on a copy until tonight. My regular comic store didn't have me on the pull list for #1 (WHO IS TO BLAME?!?!?) and the first printing sold out within an hour both there and at the larger Memphis store.
Folks, the latter thought they were being excessive over-ordering in the low 3 figures. Nothing sells in 3 digits in that market, and I don't think anything has since that Jim Lee X-Men first issue that had about 100 variant covers. While the handful of millions of regular viewers were just barely enough to keep a TV show afloat, those numbers are higher than the largest comic book audience ever and apparently the show's cult status means a hefty fraction of fans are now becoming new comics buyers. If it acts as a gateway for other titles, this series just might be the best thing that's happened to the comics industry in the last decade.