tina, the scene about Buffy comes at a time when the Guilt demon is working on Dawn, where she feels she was the cause of all the problems and everything would have been better if she wasn't there. She started "fading" for a period, so that was picked up with Buffy's dialogue.

Nice catch about Giles. I'll have to go back and check the book to see it.

Ahhh. OK. Because I was going to say - I *like* that they are re-telling the story with Dawn as completely non-key real girl, and I don't really want them to mess with that. And having Buffy realize Dawn might not be real makes me fear that somehow Glory will pop up - and even in comic form - I don't really want to see her.

My one complaint, even though it is also a shout out to WTTH is ENOUGH with the person you suspect of being the victim really being the vampire or the one you think is the slayer is really the vampire etc....things aren't what they seem. we get it already.

Just a reminder to all that 1602 #3 will be in the comic shops today.

In Buffy-related comic news, the sale date for the first issue of Tales of the Vampires has now been set. It will go on sale December 10. The first two issues of the 5-issue series is reported to be written by Joss himself.

Excellent. Both items of news.

Wasn't the Drawing on Your Nightmares collection w/the first story from Tales of the Vampire supposed to be out the first week of Oct? Went to the comic book store last night and they had no idea what I was talking about.

I'm looking forward to the next 1602 very muchly indeed. It'll be interesting to see what--if anything--is resolved in regards to Ms. Dare.

Got 1602.3 at lunch. Just finished it. Mulling over some things, and waiting until some other folks have read it to discuss.

Howdy, Raquel. I just finished 1602.3. I don't know about you, but even though it was somewhat telegraphed, I was a bit suprised by the last panel. I wasn't expecting Gaiman to muck around with actual historical continuity like that. Also, I'm starting to wonder a bit about the running gag with Peter's near misses with spiders, and things like his not being able to climb. It's the sort of thing that could be just a running gag, but with Gaiman, it could also mean so much more.

Also, the bit with the Grand Inquisitor and the Pope's lackey wasn't really that much of a surprise, but it did generate a nasty little chuckle from yrs truly.

What sorts of things prompted you to mull, m'dear?

Like you, the final panel. Also, (much white fonting): Virginia being the source of the bad weather? And whoever is watching (first page) saying that the bad weather could destroy the world? And who is that, the watcher? Same as the head that's on the moon in Strange's vision? Raised a lot more questions than it answered.

I did like the interaction between Natasha and DD, and the framing of the panels on the bard while the action occurs off-screen.

The plot with James and the Grand Inquisitor seems to have taken a back seat, but maybe it's layers on layers.