Dark Horse
Jun. 25th, 2007 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_windermereI'm increasingly worried about what Dark Horse are doing with Buffy. I don't mind Joss playing a bout with his new medium for telling more Buffy stories. I may not be the biggest Season Eight Fan, but I do love the man himself. He lets us play in his sandbox, and, even if he may not like some of the things we do, doesn't complain that we do it.
No my reservations are towards Dark Horse themselves. I do not believe Buffy is in good hands with them. Before Joss took over the reins and got involved, it looked like they would leave Buffy, neglected on the shelf until the contract ran out. I wish they had. I would be so much happier if IDW had taken over.
I had been saying that I would give the comics up till the Faith story arc before making any hard and fast decision. I have been mulling over something from the current comic #4. Namely the letters page, one of the letters they printed, and the response.
Now I know a few people were miffed about the shipper baiting by Joss, but well my ship will never get onto any medium, and would always be in the sub-text really. So shipper baiting just doesn't get to me. I have said before that I really don't think Buffy had met the right person yet, indeed for me the closest would be Faith.
No what has got me is the irresponsive action of printing the rant on the letters page, and asking for other peoples comments in reaction. Especially as I don't think Dark Horse would print the sane reasoned responses, but from the disregard to fans feelings in printing this one, maybe more mindless rants. I also don't think they would print positive letters in support of Spike either. They always seemed to have a problem with Spike.
The male who wrote the letter doesn't like Buffy, or Willow, rants about strong women = bad, and Willow should stop trying to be strong like Buffy and more like his golden boy Xander. What he says about Angel and Spike is not worth repeating. The whole message of Buffy seems to be one he objects to.
If this is how Dark Horse carry on, I really do not think I want to give them any more money!
No my reservations are towards Dark Horse themselves. I do not believe Buffy is in good hands with them. Before Joss took over the reins and got involved, it looked like they would leave Buffy, neglected on the shelf until the contract ran out. I wish they had. I would be so much happier if IDW had taken over.
I had been saying that I would give the comics up till the Faith story arc before making any hard and fast decision. I have been mulling over something from the current comic #4. Namely the letters page, one of the letters they printed, and the response.
Now I know a few people were miffed about the shipper baiting by Joss, but well my ship will never get onto any medium, and would always be in the sub-text really. So shipper baiting just doesn't get to me. I have said before that I really don't think Buffy had met the right person yet, indeed for me the closest would be Faith.
No what has got me is the irresponsive action of printing the rant on the letters page, and asking for other peoples comments in reaction. Especially as I don't think Dark Horse would print the sane reasoned responses, but from the disregard to fans feelings in printing this one, maybe more mindless rants. I also don't think they would print positive letters in support of Spike either. They always seemed to have a problem with Spike.
The male who wrote the letter doesn't like Buffy, or Willow, rants about strong women = bad, and Willow should stop trying to be strong like Buffy and more like his golden boy Xander. What he says about Angel and Spike is not worth repeating. The whole message of Buffy seems to be one he objects to.
If this is how Dark Horse carry on, I really do not think I want to give them any more money!
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Date: 2007-06-25 05:26 pm (UTC)It may take some time to read... seeing as... let's see... 22 Season 8 episodes... 12 episodes of season 9 so far... and jetwolf has promised to finish 9 and write 10... so... exciting and ongoing :)And each episode is like... 20,000 words longish
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Date: 2007-06-25 05:51 pm (UTC)Oh that is a lot of reading, might take me a while to catch up! I should have more time next week, as I have a bit of reading to do this week, but sounds like it should be good
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Date: 2007-06-25 07:22 pm (UTC)My only feelings right now...are those of being hopelessly lost... not knowing what to do... because I think things left off at teh end of the semester on a vague note... but now.. I don't know anything so I'm all.... tossed around in the tides.
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