#buffy s8

[the-worst-alive]

the twilight reveal (my dissertation)

I'm back on the Buffy comics train and just finished the second to last volume of season 8 for the first time since 2020 and here we goooooo (read more so if you want to hurt yourself physically and emotionally with spoilers you can, but you have an out.)

Twilight's mask comes off. I remember this. I don't remember it in detail, but my head instinctively goes into my hands. The trauma. The pain. The cringe. I've never felt so betrayed by Joss until I read the single worst thing he's ever written. and it hurts, just like in 2020. except not i'm reading it with my fiance and it compounds the cringe.

Spike got his SOUL BACK FOR YOU. He died for YOUR CAUSE. And just like when Angel comes back to give her the amulet, it all goes out the window for captain fucking forehead and I'M PISSED. Not to mention the most painful sex I've ever had to witness. Painful in the sense of cringey. Also, is Buffy possessed by Twilight too? Because why in all fuck would she be superpower fucking her ex just because he says "don't you want to be happy?". He's not acting normal at all, and all of this is bombastically weird and makes very little sense and Buffy just does it without questioning it? Let's live in our own microuniverse? WHY?????? Help? Why? Joss what were you going through when you wrote this??? I couldn't have come up with something worse when I was writing fanfiction at 14. I know that's the worst hurdle in the comics but damn. At least there's swearing in the comics, though, I'm not complaining that, it's very realistic.

Okay and why is NO ONE concerned about angel losing his soul??? Everyone knows it's happening and no one asks. Buffy doesn't ask. I'm screaming at the pages for someone to ask bc I'm asking and it makes no sense. the chill days of me defending the writing choices of buffy and satsu and taking mecha dawn in comedy stride are over. what in the absolute fuck. I hate it so much.

so then we get to buffy rejecting this INSANITY finally and that's cool. fuck destiny and all that. there's my girl. my selfishly driven girl (and no, that's not a chracter trait the comics invented, i could write a dissertation on buffy's character flaws from the show, they just seem to be amplified in the comics). dawn is actually the only one who seems to be questioning everything so i'm now team dawn. and xander rejecting buffy. i like xander a lot in the comics.

The best thing about this volume is this:

But I fear, since it's the end before the last volume, that i will be SO FURIOUS about a lot of things said and done in the issues cooming up, since we will have Spike and Angel and Buffy all in the same room together, and I really hope they don't do to Spike what they did in s5 of Angel which is downplay how great he is to make captain boredom look better in comparison.

and GOD i miss lynch so much. i'm not sure if it's the people writing joss's ideas or writing with joss, because I know lynch wrote after the fall but it was joss's story, so I'm thinking maybe the people writing the comics might have made it worse (even if joss's story BEATS for this was already bad). I at least know whoever storyboarded made a god damn mess of it, because half the time i couldn't figure what was going on based on the drawings in the panels.

ALSO I had this rant in the tags once about how much it bothered me that they took away Spike's black nail polish after he got his soul, genuinely annoying me that something so iconic was ripped from his design. so YAY for the return of the nail polish! Keep it!

[lilithhedwig]

You're gonna carry that weight.

I'm really sorry

[the-worst-alive]

3 volumes into buffy s8

i've read this season before a few times so i mostly already know what's going to happen. just finished the japan volume and i really do love the comics but the vibe that there's nothing between gay or straight always bugs me. why can't buffy be bi? i can understand sending satsu away because they can't be together, but i'm pretty sure the canon considers her straight even after the thing with satsu and that's what bugs me. like, obviously she's into it, she did it twice. it would make more sense that she just didn't want to use satsu since she has a history of using people who love her (*cough* spike *cough*). although, it's very possible that she is straight, and just into satsu in the moment and knows she can't continue with it in the future because she mostly likes men. i'm like that. but it still feels like bisexuality as an option just isn't acknowledged. i love the writers and so many things, but that has never been one of them. however, the vitriol sent in the "fan" mail after buffy's time with satsu may have influenced that decision. like it's out of character?? really?? after her "slow year" and her history of using people who love her? i??? sounds like yall just a bit homophobic, it's like you don't even remember faith. girl's around no one but chicks for a year and repeatedly makes crushy comments to satsu before the kiss thing. sorry, i digress. those "fan" mails really irritated me. anyway, i also have a crush on satsu lol. she does have "[her] best hair ever" mecha dawn is really silly but reminiscent of buffybot so i can't hate it that much. buffy is a comedy too. who cares. dracula and xander's friendship is super cute and i live for it. my fiance pretty much clocked renee's death the moment it seemed like they were going to get together. oh! and twilight and Buffy finally meet face to face. let me fucking tell you, i remember who twlight is, and when i get to that part of the season, i will absolutely complain. i think most of the bombastic nature of the comics is endearing, but twilight? nooooo I have opinions.

[the-worst-alive]

Buffy sleeping with Satsu is entirely in character

Buffy has a tendency to uh, kinda use people who care about her when she needs to feel something. The only uncomfotableness she ever showed at womanly gay love is when she first found out Willow was bi. In the moment, it was a shock to her and she panicked. There were a couple others, but they were quick comments that seemed like jokes. Flash forward to her literally living with like 500 women. She’s straight. After she sleeps with Satsu, she’s still straight, which she does try to explain afterward, and Kennedy gives the hard truth about it. As a straight woman myself who has slept with women a couple times, I at least get the being straight and experimenting before you know for sure if you’re bi or straight. But like, this is entirely in character for Buffy. Satsu gave her a kiss of true love. Who else loved her (kinda, not really but eventually) and she used physically and experimented with (rough sex)? It definitely tracks. Pair that with the “slow year” she mentioned and the few flirty comments sprinkled in towards Satsu as early as issue 1? All tracks fine. Season 8 takes place a full year or so after the events of season 7. They don’t have the censorship of network (you remember how Joss literally fought with the network for Willow and Tara to kiss in The Body?). There’s plenty of silly stuff in the comics that I don’t like (Warren makes no sense, but Joss did say he literally forgot the details of his supposed death and tried to come up with a viable explanation to make the retcon make more sense… I still don’t like it but I digress) but the absolute rage I saw in the letters in the back of future issues about this thing like really threw me? I was ecstatic Buffy was experimenting, the subtext between her and Faith was very on the nose in the show, the seeds were there (though one sided, mostly). I’m ranting but idk, there’s plenty of things I understand complaining about, but that’s not one of them.

[the-worst-alive]

Can’t even look up stuff through tags on tumblr about the Buffy comics because instead of seeing stuff from the canon continuation of the show, it’s only the BOOM reboot crap

[treypug]

i hate how even in the buffy comics (season 8 at least) all the slayers are like fricken clones??? theyre fricken DRAWINGS!! change it up!!!! i get it that its easier to draw a bunch of chicks the same shape and size but come on add some goddamn body type variation jfc

[tayluna]

Remember when the Doctor and Rose were in Buffy Season 8 though