Yeah, I'm a pusher.

The Snyder looks ape-like, but Xander is spot-on.

Giles doesn't look quite right to me. I think the Willow and Xander characters most resemble the real actors, but the rest are pretty good, though the ape-like Snyder does seem a little weird. And Dawn looks like a demon-child. Doesn't look like MT at all, though the character is years younger there. I have a feeling Dawn'll be even more obnoxious in the cartoon, if it's ever produced, than she's ever been on the show.

(Edited to fix my grammar so the post does in fact resemble our earth-logic.)

I have feeling Dawn'll be even more obnoxious in the cartoon, if it's ever produced than she's ever been on the show.

I understand the individual words but when you put them together like that, they make no sense.

Gah. Case of my brain going faster than I can type. I'll go back and fix it...

Kalshane, I was just making a joke about the impossibility of Dawn being any more annoying than she already has been - your post is fine. ;-)

Ah, well, I needed to fix the grammar anyway.:)

Off on a tangent, were any other readers of Ultimates struck by how Spike & Dru-ish the portrayal of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch was in the latest issue? The faces and body language of the two had a vibe very reminiscent of Marsters and Landau to me.

(Or possibly of Angelina Jolie and her brother.)

(Or possibly of Angelina Jolie and her brother.)

I think that was the vibe Hitch was going for.

I finished Buffy #53, and after a promising start (well, promising in comparison to the horridness that was "Hellmouth to Mouth"), the storyline has taken a seriously bad turn. A promising premise that included Buffy running away from home to chase vampires in Las Vegas (only to lead to the worst.comic.book.cover.ever) and examining the selection of Giles as Buffy's new watcher has quickly dissolved into a rather aimless series of fights in the Buffy storyline; an unbelievable plot wherein Angel, shadowing Buffy, gets sent back in time (this storyline contains enough "magic-babble" to rival the technobabble of a Star Trek: Voyager episode); and the Giles storyline devolving into a cliff-hanger of false jeopardy. Oh, and Dawn conveniently stumbles across Buffy's diary, which I'm sure is going to be the catalyst for Buffy's commital later in the series.

It's a shame, really. The writers and editor seem determined that the comic book is all about the fights and the monsters and the magic, rather than focusing on the characters. And it did start off pretty well. I thought #51 started nicely, brining out potential character points, such as what Buffy thinks about vampires and slaying after she was expelled; how did Giles become Buffy's watcher and how desparate was he; Angel's activities; the final dissolution of the Summers marriage.

A pity.

Not necessarily a Jossverse question, but any idea where I could find a price guide for comic books? I found some comics from the mid-80s in perfect condition the other day, but I have no idea if they are worth anything.