'The Train Job'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Just read Fray #7. I love Urkonn. I can't explain why. He's just so cool -- he's the Shaft of the demon world!
Will wait 2 days for detailed discussion. But a lot pinged with me.
I am praying that we see (S7 speculation) Buffy either find or build the red axe. If that happens, I may pass out.
Jeff, I was thinking the same thing.
And that's all the comment I have until Wednesday.
It's been a week, we can talk about Fray 7.
My first thing I want to talk about is how waiting a week sucks. Maybe we should just change the rules so we are like the show threads, discuss when it comes out when people want to talk about it, and jump in as people get their comics...
New Buffy comic came out today that didn't completely suck. Mildly surprised at that.
Really?
Hmmmm, may have to go get that then.
I don't know, for being a year in the making Fray #7 struck me as a whole lotta standing around and not doing much.
The giant monster-as-demon-womb struck me as pretty weird. If portals and Hellmouths and such can't be opened anymore, how did it get here in the first place? And if they can, wouldn't that be a more effective way of bringing the demons back?
Nothing happened, that I could tell, except that her sister is on her side.
Which really only needed a couple panels.
The one thing I got out of Fray #7 is that Slayers do seem to (S7 Buffy) speechify . And when they do, it's not pretty.
I thought that the whole year's wait was about the artist not about the story.
Maybe we should just change the rules
I like the one week rule. Not everyone can get to the comics shop the day an issue comes out. You can't set a VCR to buy your comic for you if you're going to be working late. And since Fray #8 doesn't come out a week after Fray #7 (hahahaha! nearly broke a rib there), we don't have the same urgency that we have with the TV eps.
Okay, there was a lot I liked. The scene of Harth addressing the sea of vamps reminded me of Buffy's vision of Isengaard!Turok-Hans .
And the sister dropping her car on badass!vamp was FUNNY. Very Jossy. As was a lot of the dialogue.
I still love Urkonn. He is the MAN.
I loved the two double-page spreads.