I picked up
Buffy
#50 yesterday, and there are no words to say how bad it is.
(Actually, there are quite a few words - "cliche-riddled crap" comes to mind, but falls short.)
Masochist that I am, I think I'll dig out the other issues of this introductory run and detail exactly where things went wrong. (Aside from hiring Scott Lobdell, that is). Stuff this bad just doesn't come along every day.
The back-up stories weren't mind-numbingly awful, but sure didn't make me feel that I was getting much extra to justify the increased price of the issue. I sure was disappointed that the story about Buffy's first vampire kill did not match what we saw in "Becoming, pt 1". I can fanwank it away by saying this is the Dawnverse version, but there really is no reason that it has to be different.
The Andi Watson story was cute, overly so, and far too short.
Is there any word on Fray???
Molina's banged out several issues of that Route 666 comic since the last issue of Fray... are theywaiting for him to get an opening in his work schedule to complete issues?
The last thing I read, back in March, Molina was almost finished with #7.
Route 666
just had a guest artist for issue #5, so maybe he had time to work on
Fray
during the down time. From what I read about CrossGen's schedules, though, they don't have a lot of downtime for their artists. Backup artists are used intermittently because each issue takes more than 1 month to complete.
Dark Horse's website still lists
Fray
#7 as coming out on December 4, and #8 on December 26.
December 4?! That's my birthday! Coool.
It's the damn Kuzuis, I tells ya. Freakin' bloodsuckers. And Dolly Parton, too. As a funnier person than I once said, "Everyone has a finger in Buffy."
Number companioning.
edit: Plus, I had to close some tags in casual observer's post.
