"I wouldn't let you near an Active no sooner I would let a mad dog near a child."
August 13
2009
(SPOILER)
New Harmony comic on MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
It's titled "Harmony Comes to the Nation." Written by Jane Espenson, art by Karl Moline.
Sunfire
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| tags: btvs, harmony, stephen colbert, season 8
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CaptainB | August 13, 13:13 CET
Simon | August 13, 13:14 CET
Numfar PTB | August 13, 13:20 CET
Simon | August 13, 13:22 CET
Sunfire | August 13, 13:26 CET
[ edited by Buffyfantic on 2009-08-13 22:27 ]
Buffyfantic | August 13, 13:27 CET
Same here ... I wonder if it's a DNS issue related to re-launching the site. Hopefully it'll be accessible later!
Parabola | August 13, 13:27 CET
@theonetruebix | August 13, 13:29 CET
And I
wanna smash the siteam not happy about it..If anybody finds the way to reach the darn page from humble Europe too, please let me know..
JotheCat | August 13, 13:29 CET
I'm not so sure it's the same thing this time around. Are any Americans having trouble seeing it?
Sunfire | August 13, 13:30 CET
@theonetruebix | August 13, 13:32 CET
jamesthegill | August 13, 13:33 CET
Simon | August 13, 13:35 CET
josswhedonaddict | August 13, 13:38 CET
Sunfire | August 13, 13:47 CET
This (very short) comic is odd but not unpleasing.
QuoterGal | August 13, 14:06 CET
Sunfire | August 13, 14:11 CET
XanMan | August 13, 14:38 CET
NotaViking | August 13, 14:47 CET
PaulfromSunnydale | August 13, 14:54 CET
I can't get my head around vampires being beloved and accepted by society and slayers being villains to the public. Why? I didn't like the outing of vampires to begin with, but it'd be nice if there was an explanation to it at least.
GhostsWatcher | August 13, 15:45 CET
impalergeneral | August 13, 16:01 CET
I don't think the writers quite intended that, but it's definitely how it reads. The liberal mainstream media and Hollywood are all on Harmony's side and we haven't seen the other side saying that vampires are evil (and we are even told here that there is "another side").
Nice little gift to us Republicans.
[ edited by NileQT87 on 2009-08-14 01:26 ]
NileQT87 | August 13, 16:23 CET
I really hope they collect all of the season eight related side-stories eventually. I'll probably buy all of the MSDHP collections anyway.
wonderflonium | August 13, 17:30 CET
I hope Stephen Colbert does see this, it is awfully cute.
embers | August 13, 20:03 CET
"Barbara is fairly old, Stephen. Her death would not be unexpected."
And then I imagine Barbara Walters being some closet-Buffy fan, reading this comic, and either laughing her ass off or having some kind of mortified and/or bewildered expression.
As for Harmony not sounding like Harmony...I could still hear her in this. Just read it as if she's trying too hard to sound smart (which she would attempt, given all the media exposure). Stephen Colbert definitely reads like himself though.
Having said all that, I'm not sure how I feel about all the celebrity appearances either. But let's put it in perspective--the TV series name-dropped like crazy. A whole lotta real-life celebs exist in the Buffyverse (same as dead ones like Shakespeare and many rock stars). The show couldn't have afforded even a quarter of some of the people it mentioned for guest appearances. Buffy's Daniel Craig/James Bond dream almost for sure would not have happened visually, except on the slim chance that he decided to do it for scale because he was a fan of the series/Joss' other work or a niece/nephew or child was(I dunno, lotta actors seem to mention doing certain projects for kids in their families). So are the celebrity appearances a new trend for the franchise purely driven by the freedom of comics ? Or would the writers have jumped at the chances to include some popular faces (Sunnydale is near LA and Angel could've been full of 'em) if they had the budget during the TV days ?
Too-quick-vamp-popularity is still a problem with Season 8. Especially when we're not shown any of the dissenters who aren't buying into it all--assuming there are any (the only two have been the latina gang slayer and Alex the highschool slayer from the newest Tales of the Vampires, but they were both slayers and are expected to know better). Check out Scott Allie's comments regarding this in the Q&A for issue #26 or #27, I forget which. I don't know if he's got a pulse on how Joss and the other writers feel about the issue, but he believes the vast majority of the public have lapped up the media hype. As some of the posters on SlayAlive have brought up though, maybe this vamp-popularity aspect is still a work in progress and we'll get more on it eventually. I guess we were just expected to take it on faith after "Harmonic Divergence" for a while, or the writers simply weren't aware that the execution wasn't working for a lot of the [online, at least] fandom ?
Overall, this was a nice bit of fluff and it'd be cool to see more (non-Harmony, maybe even non-vamp-reveal-related) side-stories outside the main book to flesh Season 8 and the Buffyverse out even better. The comics have been doing this for years, I've felt, even before Season 8 and while the shows were still on TV (from Fray to Tales of the Slayer, to Jane Espenson's in-between-Season 3/4 mini-series Buffy: The Haunted), expanding on the 'verse in often satisfying and exciting ways. I don't want them to risk things getting diluted(*glares at IDW*), but the occasional one-shot (Tales of the Vamps, the upcoming Willow one-off) is fine to ask of the reader and I'll always happily accept freebies like the MySpace Presents bits (of course we'll still tear them to shreds if they suck or contradict continuity, but y'know--we'll do it gratefully).
[ edited by Kris on 2009-08-14 06:47 ]
Kris | August 13, 21:44 CET
Yep, it just keeps redirecting me back to the myspace main page.
Numfar PTB | August 14, 00:44 CET
There might just be a practical reason for this. I don't know anything about Scott's politics, but Joss has established his pedigree as part of media liberalism, whatever that really is. So (unless they've actually gone and gotten permission from Dick, Cooper, King, Colbert, etc., and who says they didn't) I guess he's figuring they'll all eb good sports about it and chalk it up to being public figures. Wehreas if he featured O'Reilly, Liddy, etc, ie. people who'd regard him as an "enemy" even beforehand he might be asking for it.
Plus, more story-internal; what Willow, Buffy, and Faith did with unlocking the Scythe's power to empower all the SLayers world-wide was not, whatever else it was, a conservative act. So retro-righties like me would not be the first faction Buffy could look to for validation in this.
DaddyCatALSO | August 14, 11:31 CET
Simon | August 14, 13:56 CET
Rowan Hawthorn | August 14, 14:39 CET
[ edited by Liam Mars on 2009-08-14 23:48 ]
[ edited by Liam Mars on 2009-08-14 23:48 ]
Liam Mars | August 14, 14:47 CET
Hadn't considered. It's almost as outlandish as Twilight being Buffy's dad/Hank Summers though (and if that turns out to be the case, I dunno, do we have to get that much more into father issues where Buffy has to slay or at least thwart her biological father ?).
Kris | August 14, 15:52 CET
NotaViking | August 15, 08:31 CET
espalier | August 15, 17:13 CET
There are probably giant holes of story logic in their theory though. Like why aren't Buffy and her friends effected ? (well, I guess maybe it just wouldn't work on those already aware of the existence of vamps and knowledgable about their ill will toward humanity)
Kris | August 15, 17:22 CET
I suppose the only answer is that he has prior knowledge of vampires as well. This is just explaining away the events in the story though, rather than a likely scenario. Plus, if Twilight has the ability to alter peoples' perception through magic, why is he (and why are the writers) messing around with Harmony? And her confessing to being evil on TV still makes no sense.
Going with magic is usually the simple and safe option, but here it's either going to be a convoluted explanation or one with holes in it. But without magic the whole situation seems way too ludicrous. Wish I could say that it'll all make sense in the end, but ever since "Harmonic Divergence" I've been disappointed with the comic.
NotaViking | August 15, 19:30 CET
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