Was it just me

Not just you.

Definitely not just you. I agree with Jessica's first paragraph as well. So, are Angel & Spike going to fight over who gets to break the spell? Gawd, I hope not.

I think it'd be hilarious if they brought back Riley just for that purpose.

Assuming Samantha Finn hasn't eaten him by now, of course.

Pretty much agree with everything y'all are saying. I didn't recognize Andrew either, though I loved seeing him geek out. I hope we see more of him (and a little more character development would be nice too -- as much as I love Andrew-the-fanboy, I prefer him as more than just one-note comic-relief). Still wondering who Amy's boyfriend could be -- I don't think it's Adam, unless he's changed a lot (possible), because while he's weird and scary, I don't think he's really grotesque in the way that Amy's boyfriend is supposed to be. My kittens are on a resurrected Warren, sans skin (ew). I cheered when Willow showed up! Loved the callback to Giles: "I'd like to test that theory." That gave me goosebumps. I have to admit that I was actually hoping that neither Angel nor Spike would show up in the comic -- I just don't see Buffy ending up with either of them in the long run -- but given the true-love's-kiss plotline, it seems clear that at least one, if not both, of them will be appearing soon. I'll be very pleased to be proven wrong, though!

I'm interrupting your regularly scheduled Buffy S8 squee to see if anyone read JLA #7 yet. Because -- ROY!!! Love!!!! And Ollie being all fatherly-noble! Love!!! Sentimental Hal! Love!!! And Dinah being large and in charge!!! Woot!!!

I just picked up BtVS S8 at the shop and read through it, once. * I'm wondering if they're not setting up something between Buffy and Xander. They've already got Renee set up to be a built in complication, and meanwhile Buffy's having sexy dreams about Xander and Amy is teasing Xander about his kiss waking up Buffy. *

I didn't think the character art was as good in this issue. I wasn't sure I was looking at Buffy in a few places. Because I read here first, I knew Andrew was going to be hard to recognize, but I still didn't really think it was him. He looked more like Jonathan with lighter hair.

I have to read it again before I say anything of substance. I fly through these things in about five minutes. I want one that takes me 44 minutes to read.

Heh. For a split second, Cindy's x-post made me think she had read JLA, and I thought, "Damn -- girl is picking up ALL KINDS of titles now!"

Yeah, I tried to throw my edit in there quickly, because it did look like I was responding to you, Teppy.

I also got Buffy #2 yesterday, and the only way I knew that Andrew was Andrew was because of the dialogue. But then, I also didn't really think that Giles (and, oh, YAY, Giles!!!) looked like Giles, despite the cup of tea.

I'm mostly curious as to who Amy's "boyfriend" is.

And I'm mostly bemused about the appearance of Spike in Buffy's dream/nightmare -- but maybe it'll make the rabid 'shippers on the interwebs happy. (Seriously, after issue #1, my friendslist had more than a few posts bitching about how Spike wasn't even mentioned, and shouldn't Buffy at least have had a grieve-y thought ot two for him? Which -- even if such comments weren't totally missing the POINT -- given that at least 2 years [or is it 3?] have passed in Jossverse time, my feeling is that *Buffy* would be finished grieving Spike, even if the 'shippers aren't. And that's assuming that Andrew didn't tell Buffy that Spike was un-dusted, but I just don't think he could keep that information to himself. Especially for 3 years. [Damn, this is a long parenthetical.])

I grabbed my copy of Buffy Season 8 on the way out to breakfast. My waiter geeked out on me and told me all the other comics I should be reading. The first issue seemed liked just a tease to me, but this one had some substance and made me squee a few times, especially when Willow recalled Giles's "Two To Go" line. Were Giles and Buffy supposed to be in the same location in the beginning or were they talking from different places? I had to go back and re-read all of Andrew's lines as soon as I realized it was Andrew.