{"id":4280,"date":"2006-05-24T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2006-05-24T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T19:25:06","slug":"whedon-writes-buffy-season-8-for-dark-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/whedon-writes-buffy-season-8-for-dark-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Whedon Writes Buffy Season 8 for Dark Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And all the Scoobies in all the land simultaneously orgasm and grab a  cigarette.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\">Familiarity.  It was announced yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/8719.html\" class=\"external external_icon\"><strong>Joss is doing BUFFY Season 8 as a comics-only project<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; season 7 having been the last of the TV show.  The reaction was interesting to be, as it relates to something I&#8217;ve been working on. <\/div>\n<p>How awesome.  Well, it&#8217;s only awesome cause Whedon is writing them. The monthly Buffy book Dark Horse had running was complete crap.  Generic stories. Generic writers(at least all the books I bought from it).  The only books from that Whedon-verse that was worth something was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/profile\/profile.php?sku=11-001\" class=\"external external_icon\">Tales of the Slayers<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/profile\/profile.php?sku=12-914\" class=\"external external_icon\">Tales of the Vampires<\/a>&#8221; TPBs.  Both incredibly readable without having seen the TV series.<\/p>\n<p>Now where&#8217;s my cigarette?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/font> 7d reminded me that I forgot Melaka <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fray\" class=\"external external_icon\">Fray<\/a>. A future slayer book also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1569717516\/103-2968362-9623052?v=glance&#038;n=283155\" class=\"external external_icon\">written by Whedon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1569717516\/103-2968362-9623052?v=glance&#038;n=283155\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FrayTPB.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/FrayTPB.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"277\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/>laser guns! edged weapons! vampires! flying cars!<\/a><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysociety.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/badsignal\" class=\"external external_icon\">Bad Signal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/comments\/10424\" class=\"external external_icon\">Whedonesque<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.darkhorse.com\/covers\/11\/11001.jpg\"><br \/>Nikki gets the job done <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/bags_and_boards\/images\/12915.jpeg\"><br \/> Uncle Pointy weaves a yarn<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And all the Scoobies in all the land simultaneously orgasm and grab a cigarette. Familiarity. It was announced yesterday that Joss is doing BUFFY Season 8 as a comics-only project &#8212; season 7 having been the last of the TV show. The reaction was interesting to be, as it relates to something I&#8217;ve been working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}