Lots of moaning ahead I’m afraid on the changes that have been made with the new Buffy comics

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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer': Jordie Bellaire, Jeanine Schaeffer Talk Taking the "Ultimate Marvel" Approach to the New Series

JB: I think me and Jeanine when we first started talking about the project, we both talked about how we both love Willow. I think Willow definitely has a lot of charm being this sweet, quiet, bookish girl, but she really

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[mazephoenix]

It sounds like they only believe in a shallow interpretation of a "strong" female characters, a badass lady who acts first and thinks later. Blerrgh. This is your typical Urban fantasy lead, often defined by her brawn rather than her brain-like Anita Blake. Willow isn't that. Why can't female characters show inner strenght? And they don't need to dress like streetwalkers to be tough. Ugh. And is that Dru? No.

[frelling_tralk]

Exactly! I think the way they speak about the characters is what irks me than the actual comics themselves in fact lol, because really saying they want her to not just be a shrinking violet is so rudely dismissive of tv Willow and the fans that related to that character.

[kazzy_cee]

Totally agree!

[frelling_tralk]

:)

[infinitewhale]

I've read a few interviews with these people and they sound like they never really watched the show. To me, they have these ideas, then they bent the characters to do them, then justified it afterward. That's why you get this sort of WTF reaction.

The first issue is rather bland except for the art, which is pretty good aside from they're diligence with getting eye color wrong. I do not understand that at all. The colorist is the writer and if they can't get that Buffy doesn't have blue eyes, how am I going to believe they were paying attention to the characters themselves?

I'll keep up with it because they're easy to pirate, but meh. At least they are not trying to claim they are canon.

[frelling_tralk]

I know what you mean, it reads like they have a really superficial understanding of the show. Certainly it stood out to most fans right away that Willow’s wardrobe was all wrong for that character (even when she became more confident and into magic, she still dressed in very colourful and dorky clothing most of the time. Well other than the brief period in season 6 when she was dark and spiralling after her breakup with Tara), so it feels odd to have them justify it by saying that well we wanted to make her confident sooner and not such a shrinking violet. Okaaaaay, but do you actually understand the character of Willow at all and why she was so popular with fans in the beginning??

It’s good that they’re not trying to make them the official new canon though I agree, at this point there’s been so many different spin-offs with the comics and with books, even the possible rebooted tv series, that it’s impossible to keep track of them all!

[bm_shipper]

I just wish they didn’t feel the need to completely change preexisting characters, while still giving them the same name.

I obviously have never seen BUFFY, nor will I watch the "New!Buffy" but I'm SO so pissed off with ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO at the moment... I thought I'd at least check it out, to NOT write it off right away as I've loved the Original one and basically "grew up" with it and it was one of the first shows that had me ship 2 characters and all, and I watched and rewatched it like 10 times, and now this "new version" is just... bad... SO bad...

And suddenly Michael is gay and together with Alex (and Michael/Maria was one of my first ever OTPs!) and Maria is not even important and Liz had a sister who died and now thinks Max killed her and ugh...

It's just... not "my" Roswell at all... there is no magic to it, and the actors are SO bad (Even though I liked some of them in their previous roles) and I hate Julie Plec for completely destroying my show for me =(

[frelling_tralk]

Oh I’ve been curious to check out the new version actually as I followed the original Roswell (and Michael and Maria were one of my big OTPs as well!) that sucks that you hated it so much

[goldenusagi]

Yeah, I have no interest in the reboot comics.

[frelling_tralk]

It just feels like too much is being changed sadly, I get wanting to update things, but they did not need to mess with the original characters this much.