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gerbal and I went to Hometown Comic Book Store yesterday and loaded up on Buffy Season 8 and the Serenity Comic. I am not big on comic books - I'm just not that visual - but man I am glad I made the leap.


I came into Buffy as a closed canon - I come into everything as a closed canon, generally. It's that whole no-television-as-a-child bit. So the idea that there is more Buffy canon - or, to sidestep the canonicity debate, just plain more Buffy written by Joss Whedon - blows my teensy mind. And I admit I find the graphic novel form a little stilted, but: these are our guys! They talk right! They move right! They are quintessentially Slayer and Slayerettes, and I love them with that unreasoning Whedon love, except for Dawn, who I dislike in exactly the same way I disliked her in-series. (Intriguingly, that never stopped me from trying to write her. Next WiP amnesty day will be a bit of a reckoning.)
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Also: I am through the Long Way Home #3 and: not just cliffhanger: SHIP cliffhanger. Ship hanging on a cliff! Who kissed Buffy? I don't know, but if I lived full-time in a town with a comic shop, I would be hanging around the shop on the day the new shipment came in waiting to find out.END SPOILERS

I have never been a comics nerd before! I am enjoying it.

Also, it's interesting how different a character and an actor can be, isn't it? I was never all that into Sarah Michelle Gellar, but the Season 8 vol I cover art makes my heterosexuality crumble a bit. Oh, Sunnydale people. I missed you.

ETA: Also, while I've seized control of an internet connection: vid rec! Set Fire to the Third Bar by sol_se. (Torchwood, Jack/Ianto). I am not particularly into either this song or this pairing right now, and I still love the pants off this video. Sol_se does some really cool things with timing, and makes connections that are surprising and interesting. I know the whole TW fandom has seen every frame of S1 Jack/Ianto footage a thousand times, but she still manages to do new things with it.