I want to know the limerick that ended with "Kuzui".

The One True b!X | March 26, 22:33 CET

Love this with my painfully fanish heart.

gossi | March 26, 23:06 CET

From what I recall, the print edition shows the Buffy props archive (I thought it had all been sold off). His latest comments about the Buffyverse square are giving some fans food for thought.

Simon | March 26, 23:30 CET

It's nice to see a different crop of questions now and then. It made it possible to overlook the "squee-ness" of the interview.

And I, too, am curious about that limerick...

Brutus | March 27, 01:00 CET

I cannot believe that Joss answered this question:
"KL: Who did you like together with Buffy the most: Angel, Riley, or Spike?
"JW: You know what, I liked Spike. With Angel it’s too “Romeo and Juliet”. Which means, as soon as it happens you’re bored. Riley, you know he was a well-adjusted person who loved her in a much, much healthier way than the other two guys. Nobody wants to see that. With Buffy and Spike, they had a real Beatrice and Benedick kind of relationship, in “Much Ado About Nothing”. I think with the wedding, she would have tried to do something fast, but he would have made it elaborate and done everything wrong. It would have been extraordinarily counter-intuitive, and awesome!"

embers | March 27, 02:45 CET

embers, I know, right?!

Enisy | March 27, 09:55 CET

Joss: "You know what, I liked Spike."

Me: "Where is real Joss and what have you done to him?"

But, seriously, this is the first time Joss says something definitive about Buffy ships. Even if he says it only writing-wise, it's huge.

Moscow Watcher | March 27, 11:16 CET

"At some point Kirsten Dunst is going to turn into Samantha Mathis and you just have to deal with that."

Hah. Bet Joss would've made a better Little Women.

hacksaway | March 27, 15:35 CET

Eh, it's only huge if you care about this shipping nonsense. Angel, Spike, Riley, Scott Hope, whatever. Haha, if the story is good I'll watch it.I don't care who Buffy is cuddling up too.

losthero47 | March 27, 16:34 CET

I was mostly surprised because I always thought that Joss preferred the Buffy/Parker ship.

embers | March 27, 17:18 CET

I've read loads of comments from people saying joss doesn't like Spike. I think they missed the part where he does.

gossi | March 27, 18:11 CET

Gossi, if you're referring to what James Marsters said, Joss pretty much confirmed what James said, that Joss wasn't interested in vampires.

Curly | March 27, 20:19 CET

Wow, I just don't know what to say about this interview....oh wait, yes I do.

I (shock!) predict more full out dark angst and horror for Spike and his relationship with Buffy. Yup, I've become a psychix reader of my fluffy overlord. Nah, really it's just easy to predict that Whedon torutre those he loves the most. If he's actually liking Spike now, oh man is he in for a rough ride.

And now for some comic book spoilery speculation Illyria, Buffy and Drusilla (is she stopping by?) will tear his limbs from his body in an attempt to secure their one true love or say PET. Then we will get the awesome, an ultimately necessary ROBO!Spike .

Seriously, that has to be one of the most fun interviews that I have read. It sent my mind all kinds of crazy places.

hann23 | March 27, 20:57 CET

He says that in addition to everything else, comics, etc., he's writing "prose." What's he referring to?

Squishy | March 27, 22:36 CET

*Wonderful* interview - well, I'm gonna love it if it has Dickens and dirty limericks in one go. Yeah, I'd love to hear the Kuzui limerick, too. I'd say I'd try & write one, but trying to make two matches to that name seems like such a difficult commitment...

I also loved this:

"By the way, you can kill a demon with just those words, 'Oh for God’s sake!' "

I tried it & it works. Good-bye, Crazy Landlady.

Oh, and this:

"Everything happens during grief. It shouldn’t, but it does."

It's so banally (that looks wrong) true. Just a few hours after my Mom died, I was on the phone, mid-way through telling her very shocked first cousin about her sudden death, and call-waiting signaled. I said, "Oh, sorry, John, I've gotta call you back. That's gotta be the pizza-guy confirming the pizza we just ordered, so I gotta run."

For real. I almost died of embarrassment afterwards, but my sisters nearly wet themselves, laughing at me. It was a very typical hysterical My Family moment (though my niece was terribly shocked by our hilarity) and thus: reassuring, somehow...

Katie & Joss had such a fluid rapport - it really brought out interesting stuff, from both of them.

QuoterGal | March 27, 23:21 CET

I haven't read the whole interview yet but my eyes piqued when I saw Katie Lucas' name and that she is a Buffy fan. Wasn't there a rumor that George Lucas was going to put James Marsters in one of the Star Wars prequels? (I could be confusing this with the Star Trek casting rumor and the backstreet boys being in one of the prequels)

eddy | March 28, 08:33 CET

QuoterGal, please give it a try to that Kuzui limerick.

anca | March 28, 12:10 CET