March 24
2009
(SPOILER)
Buffy Season 8 #24 preview.
2-page preview courtesy of Dark Horse.
wenxina
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This--and, even moreso, #25--are the Buffy issues I've been looking forward to. This arc hasn't really lived up to the standard the previous ones set, but the premise of this and "Living Doll" could set the series back on track at last.
patxshand | March 24, 17:53 CET
@theonetruebix | March 24, 17:55 CET
ShanshuBugaboo | March 24, 17:56 CET
Buffyfantic | March 24, 17:56 CET
Anyhoo, looking good. Very much loving the "You're Buffy!" line, and looking forward to some more Faith/Giles.
sumogrip | March 24, 17:59 CET
Buffyfantic | March 24, 18:05 CET
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Actually, poor Slayerette! You don't say stuff like that to Faith.
ElusiveJ | March 24, 18:36 CET
sarahi | March 24, 18:46 CET
Note the charming and quaint Fachwerkhäuser in the background -- yeah, everybody here lives in those (snicker). The poster behind the girl in the very first panel has "Oktoberfest" in Gothic script. The last panel has an American aluminum garbage can -- German Mülltonnen are large, made out of a heavy brown or black plastic, square, and they don't keep them in the streets. Oh, and there would be a yellow one right next to it for recycling, the gelbe Tonne. Even worse, the writing behind Faith seems to spell "BAKER". Now, what German word, pray, is that supposed to be? A "bakery" is Bäckerei or even Backstube. German doesn't have many words with a k between two vowels, it almost always is ck.
Sigh. Guys, stay in California if you can't afford the research. Buffy has fans all over the planet, and this is an embarrassment. My German friends are going to fall over laughing.
scotws | March 24, 19:02 CET
[ edited by Emmie on 2009-03-25 03:14 ]
Emmie | March 24, 19:12 CET
Craig Oxbrow | March 24, 19:27 CET
Here -- if these two pages are what the rest of the comic is like, then they didn't even try. The buildings look like they are out of a tourist guide. Maybe they are -- maybe the story starts out with an American girl in a tourist trap village in southern Germany, and on the next page they go back to a real, 21st century city. I admit I'm going on little information here. But if this is what it is all like, it's going to be bad.
scotws | March 24, 19:28 CET
As for the rest, it's mostly spelling problems. And actually you missed one: the extremely dilapidated poster doesn't say "Oktoberfest", it says "Octoberfest". ;)
That one page gives the impression of a kinda derelict place. Possibly without the more modern trash cans? Maybe it's Germany's version of Brigadoon?
Emmie | March 24, 19:51 CET
By the by, I don't seriously think the above is the case, unless there's a really funny joke involved.
And not so much a fan of Cliff Richards. I don't hate his art, but it doesn't quite do it for me, least not for Buffy. Maybe it's because Jeanty's are is so perfect for Buffy.
bobw1o | March 24, 20:13 CET
wenxina | March 24, 20:26 CET
Even if the rest of the plot kicks butt, you still won't enjoy it because they didn't depict the garbage cans correctly? ;)
This probably falls in line with the whole submarine thing in issue 22...I just can't understand dismissing a story over it. But that's just me. I am more into the characters than the background stuff.
ShanshuBugaboo | March 24, 20:38 CET
bobw1o | March 24, 20:54 CET
Loving it so far. Particularly the “you’re her, you’re Buffy” oh man what a brilliant line to say to Faith.. NOT! Lol I’m loving they aren’t letting her off the hook with those issues any time soon :D I wasn't big of Cliff Richard's art in his other season eight work as I think it lacks the quirks and charms of Jeanty's drawings, but I'm really digging it in these few panels.
Can't wait for this issue :D
[ edited by vampmogs on 2009-03-25 05:37 ]
vampmogs | March 24, 21:34 CET
Shep | March 25, 03:24 CET
DawnLover90 | March 25, 05:51 CET
[ edited by wenxina on 2009-03-25 15:58 ]
wenxina | March 25, 06:24 CET
DawnLover90 | March 25, 06:33 CET
patxshand | March 25, 06:57 CET
wenxina | March 25, 07:52 CET
kungfubear | March 25, 09:50 CET
Lots of the old BtVS and especially Angel comics completely got Southern California wrong as well. Sometimes even the two series did. Why are there so many houses with basements in Sunnydale? How on earth does an earthquake swallow up an entire building, leaving it intact instead of turning it into a pile of mangled rubble, let alone do it to a church, a mission (which would have had a replica built in its place anyhow), and an opera house? If they can't get Southern California right, I wouldn't expect to see an accurate depiction of Germany.
deanna b | March 25, 11:22 CET
Simon | March 25, 11:35 CET
On the other hand, when foreign writers have Americans using British or European terminology I usually think it's cute. Except the morgue scene in Seven Doors of Death which was just stupid and ridiculous or when Weil and Brecht had a gold rush set along the Alabama coast in Mahaggony which was all kinds of silly.
[ edited by DaddyCatALSO on 2009-03-25 20:19 ]
DaddyCatALSO | March 25, 12:18 CET
Riker | March 25, 16:38 CET
Capt. Logic | March 25, 17:18 CET