Comic thoughts.

[elisi]

ruuger posted lots of Spuffy icons & recs. Go there for pretties like the one that I'm using.

Anyway, I finally read #36. Initial reaction under the cut.



I'll probably have deeper thoughts tomorrow, but for now that's all! Goodnight!

Comments

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! I adore that giff either way. But then I gave up on season 8 some time back, and just sort of keep up with the wank for entertainment value.

[elisi]

I will never, ever get tired of that gif. And oh, that comic... I'd prepared myself for the worst and then it was just... ridiculous. With ugly sprinkles on top! ;)

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

You read it? Where have you found it?

[diamondtook862.livejournal.com]

I second this question.

[elisi]

I believe your question has been answered. :)

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Yes - thank you! :)

[elisi]

Looking forward to your thoughts! :)

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I do like GIFs!

[elisi]

Brilliant, aren't they? That one especially. (Oh DoctorDonna... You really ought to watch S4 of DW, just for Donna's sake. She's awesomeness on a truly fabulous scale.)

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

I read it too now and I don't think I have much of a reaction, except that I don't like the characters anymore, non of them, not even Spike.

And if there's anything I find even more dull than the characters it's the plot around the red egg.

Sure there is subtext you can spin in positive ways if you work really really hard, but that's the last issue written by Joss, after that it's handed over to Allie, who probably thinks subtext means he has to bring back the superkewl submarine for the finale and wait for....it speaks now!

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

I agree. There are things to support the theory, things that say THIS IS NOT RIGHT, but there have always been those and they've yet to come through with it. Joss and Co. have to work a lot more to get optimism from me.

All the ship crap aside, I don't care much for what the story is and the aborted baby/universe thing is all kinds of distress-causing and not in a good way. The phrase 'space hymen' should never be used by anyone and I'm not entirely sure we're not supposed to be suspicious of Spike in this.

Regarding Buffy's reaction to Spike, if it weren't for her apparently not giving two figs about Dawn, I'd put a little more faith her being defensive. But with the rest of her characterization in the comics, I think she just doesn't care. Maybe she's mojo'd or whatever, but I don't think she's hiding anything in that exchange.

[elisi]

I read it too now and I don't think I have much of a reaction, except that I don't like the characters anymore, non of them, not even Spike.
There were a few things that made me cross, but then the utter ridiculousness of the whole thing overcame me again and I just had to laugh. I thought it'd be bad but not... *stupendously* so.

And if there's anything I find even more dull than the characters it's the plot around the red egg.
BUT IT'S A BIG RED EGG! *can't keep a straight face* A BIG RED EGG! I'll be you anything that now they'll need to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow...

Sure there is subtext you can spin in positive ways if you work really really hard
You apart from the fact that it's hysterically funny and makes EoT look restrained?

who probably thinks subtext means he has to bring back the superkewl submarine for the finale and wait for....it speaks now!
*snerk* We all live in a talking submarine, talking submarine, talking submarine...

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

BUT IT'S A BIG RED EGG! *can't keep a straight face* A BIG RED EGG! I'll be you anything that now they'll need to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow...

Man, you're clueless, when it's so obvious from all the forshadowing that only a tachyon impulse can solve this mess!

[elisi]

Hmmm. *ponders* Or maybe an inverse transwarp inhibitor could do it? I know, I know, I'm just guessing now.

(Anyway, that's the spirit!)

[kathyh]

That's a wonderful gif.

I can't be bothered to read the comic as I'd quite like to remember the characters as they were on my TV screen not badly drawn pod people, but I must admit the reactions are interesting!

[elisi]

That's a wonderful gif.
Isn't it just? I could watch it forever. ♥

And you are VERY WISE not to read the comics, for lo, they are terrible. Or just hysterically, hilariously, bad, as the case might be...

[kathyh]

My biggest regret about the whole mess is that it's made me lose my respect for Joss's storytelling abilities, which was very shaky after "Dollhouse" anyway.

I will probably read them at some point when I'm in the mood for "hysterically, hilariously bad" *g*.

[elisi]

My biggest regret about the whole mess is that it's made me lose my respect for Joss's storytelling abilities, which was very shaky after "Dollhouse" anyway.
Yeah, same here. George Lucas II all the way. (Go read shipperx's latest post...)

I will probably read them at some point when I'm in the mood for "hysterically, hilariously bad" *g*.
It's like RTD on drugs. Without the logic.

[kathyh]

Now that's a really scary concept *g*.

Must go an do something useful now and not ponder how Joss has managed to assassinate the character of his heroine. I liked Buffy, damn it (and as long as I ignore the comics I still do)!

[elisi]

It is rather... *g*

And I ADORE Buffy. Comic!Buffy has nothing to do with real!Buffy. :)

[ruuger]

I think GIFs are probably the best way to express opinions about the comic - why bother to write long essays when the comics themselves seem to have been done with minimal effort :)

And this GIF perfectly expresses what I think about Joss and the comics right now:



:)

[elisi]

LOL!

Also, men in waistcoats are ALWAYS of the good! :)