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For the Spuffy fen...
‘Shadow Puppets’ issue 1 gives us what four issues of s8 haven’t.
Spike is weighing the options for and against going to Japan and taking out the new Smile Time puppets:
See? One line: ‘What if there’s an impromptu reunion with the Slayer while I’m away?’
It doesn’t stop him from going. I doubt she’ll be mentioned *at all* in the story to come. I *expect* Spike to hit on every hot-looking girl he comes across (and sleep with them if he can). But - we know that he thinks about Buffy. He might not imagine that he can actually ever have a future with her, and he might not ever try to look her up, but he does dream. She’s a part of his world, of his hopes for the future, whether those hopes become reality or not.
And none of this in any way compares to Buffy’s threesome fantasy. *That* was about sex - and heck, she had fantasies about sex with Spike before she slept with him. It tells us nothing about what she thinks or feels for either of the vampires in question, beyond the fact that she’d like to sleep with them again (and that she’s horny. That she loves them I’m taken as understood). Does she miss Spike? Mourn him? Does she even know he’s alive? Does she ponder a reunion, even if she’d not actually seek one out? We don’t know.
One line. One line is all it’d take. I don’t need a resolution, I don’t need a meeting or buckets of tears. Actually I'd really dislike buckets of tears. All I want is an acknowledgement that Spike matters(/mattered) to Buffy.
And what have I got? Buffy misses Teh Sex. *sigh* I much, much prefer the Buffy who’s dating The Immortal. At least she's getting some.
Spike is weighing the options for and against going to Japan and taking out the new Smile Time puppets:
See? One line: ‘What if there’s an impromptu reunion with the Slayer while I’m away?’
It doesn’t stop him from going. I doubt she’ll be mentioned *at all* in the story to come. I *expect* Spike to hit on every hot-looking girl he comes across (and sleep with them if he can). But - we know that he thinks about Buffy. He might not imagine that he can actually ever have a future with her, and he might not ever try to look her up, but he does dream. She’s a part of his world, of his hopes for the future, whether those hopes become reality or not.
And none of this in any way compares to Buffy’s threesome fantasy. *That* was about sex - and heck, she had fantasies about sex with Spike before she slept with him. It tells us nothing about what she thinks or feels for either of the vampires in question, beyond the fact that she’d like to sleep with them again (and that she’s horny. That she loves them I’m taken as understood). Does she miss Spike? Mourn him? Does she even know he’s alive? Does she ponder a reunion, even if she’d not actually seek one out? We don’t know.
One line. One line is all it’d take. I don’t need a resolution, I don’t need a meeting or buckets of tears. Actually I'd really dislike buckets of tears. All I want is an acknowledgement that Spike matters(/mattered) to Buffy.
And what have I got? Buffy misses Teh Sex. *sigh* I much, much prefer the Buffy who’s dating The Immortal. At least she's getting some.
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I love the way Spike is written, too. It's Spike, for people who love him in all his conflicted glory. The references to past history, the weighing of the pros and cons - the comic is two-dimensional, but the writing is not so. And the 'official canon' wink at fans? So much better than the 'Kennedy's dead' fake-out. Bryan Lynch is the writer? It's obvious that he understands who Spike is, what motivates him, and the way he's likely to react.
It's kind of like 'Shanghai Noon' succeeding where 'Wild, Wild West' failed.
Looking so forward to #2!
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You and me both! :)
But he's his own man, and (maybe even more so than Buffy and Angel) comfortable in his skin and his role as champion.
Yes. Of course he's not being entirely honest - not even with himself at times - but that's all part of what makes him so endearing.
the comic is two-dimensional, but the writing is not so.
Exactly! And also it's so much FUN! Playful even. I love it. :)
And the 'official canon' wink at fans?
I'm getting an icon of that. Oh yes I am!
Bryan Lynch is the writer?
If you have not read 'Spike:Asylum' then buy it immediately! Trust me. :)