I'm a little less than thrilled with the comics. As far as I'm concerned, they're just a way to fill time between now and... October, is it?

October 4th, I believe.

But the season 3 dvds come out a little earlier than that.

But the season 3 dvds come out a little earlier than that.

blinks

Okay... how does that work? They're actually releasing eps before they go on the air?

I meant season 2.

Must find myself some caffeine.

I meant season 2.

Ah. That makes more sense. Still, that would have been an interesting way of distributing the show.

Of course, the comics kinda suck on plot.

They also blow on existing canon. Like not just how many doors the Impala has, but when it was acquired into the Winchester canon. (It's in the first five minutes of the pilot, hello!)

The moral of this story is: there is no such thing as extracanonical canon. You are better off presuming that contemporaneous-release "official" canon items are actually just commercial fanfic. Written by twelve-year-olds who don't do their research.

The comics are, IIRC, going to be reworked. They did give good Missouri, though.

But, yeah. What Nutty said.

(The weird part of that story, for me, is the idea that Dean would never have heard one word about the Harvelles. I mean, in 1988, he's nine, which is getting up there in the "snoop on what your parents are doing" range. And by 1993, he's fourteen, which is definitely in the snooping range, and only two years removed from his self-proclaimed first solo kill -- which, unless the learning curve is wicked steep, means he should have been John's assistant already. There's a story in there somewhere, but someone other than me should write it.)

Clearly, the solution here is that John sometimes left on solo hunts during the school year when he thought Dean was old enough to be trusted for that. Say, 1990/91 or so, when he's 11 or 12, and has learned his lesson from Something Wicked, which is still a recent enough memory to prevent snooping. And I'm not the one writing it, but I'd read and leave glowing feedback to the person who does.

I like that idea. Of course, reading the recent HP fics and imagining that Dean was just 21 (right?) when HPDH happens and Sam is a junior in high school and Buffy so is Buffy. . . well, things should be x-overed. . . lots.

Picture Dean at 21 - did John leave him home? Or did they leave Sam alone while they hunted? How early did they start leaving Sam alone? Did John realize that Sam was the big target at that point?

Or did they leave Sam alone while they hunted? How early did they start leaving Sam alone?

In the pilot, wasn't that the reason John and Sam had the huge fight after which they didn't speak? Because Sam wanted to turn his back on the "family business" and go off to college? I interpreted it that Sam didn't get left alone, had to go help on the hunts, and that was the source of contention. If they were leaving Sam behind on the hunts, then it shouldn't have mattered to John if Sam went to Stanford.

But, Sam actually managed to do things like take part in his high school play - how could he do that if they were going off on long hunts at the drop of a hat? And if he's doing extra-curricular stuff - his weekends are shot too.