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#MyBuffyLife Guest Blog - by Allison Higginbotham

08/26/2011 11:30am

We are really excited about Buffy Season 9 comics arriving on Comic Shop shelves Sept. 14th and wanted to reach out to fans and get their thoughts about Season 9 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in general. Whedon fans are legion and probably some of the most generous and passionate we've ever encountered. We're excited to share their enthusiasm for Buffy here on our Blog.

When I got my hands on the first issue of the Buffy Season 8 comic, I was a little dubious. How would the show translate and continue in comic-book form? Would I be able to wait a month between issues? How does one even read a comic? Could it possibly be as good as the television series that I loved for so long? But since it had been five years since the series finale, “Chosen,” had aired, I was also excited. I was going to see the Scoobies again. We would finally see what happened after Buffy shared her power with women everywhere and left a crater where the fictional city of Sunnydale used to be.

As each issue was released, my friend and I would rush to the nearest comic-book store after school got out. I remember my stabs of jealousy as he got to read it in the car, but I had to wait until I had driven home. Then I moved to another state and buying the comics wasn’t as easy. I let it fall by the wayside. When I did my yearly rewatch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I decided to catch back up with the comics. It was then that I began to see how the comics had transformed Buffy.

The comics weren’t held back by the constraints of television. Monsters weren’t limited by practicality or the show’s budget. The vampires weren’t going to age like the actors. Characters long thought gone on the television show made a triumphant return in the comic books. The comics got to be more epic than the series.

What didn’t change, though, was the writing and storytelling. I found myself laughing, getting shocked, and crying out just like I would have during any season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After I read the final issue I knew, without a doubt, that I would be back for Season 9, which is thankfully a few short weeks away.

It’s hard to say what I’m most excited about. The separate Angel & Faith comic is at the top of my list. I’m also looking forward to returning to what Joss Whedon referred to as “the everyday trials that made Buffy more than a superhero” in the final issue. Season 8 was grand, but like the television series, my favorite issues dealt with real-world problems and the apocalypse was just in the background. And, of course, I’d be a fool not to mention Jo Chen’s absolutely gorgeous covers.

In the first issue of Season 8, Buffy says they changed the world. Joss Whedon and company certainly changed mine. So most of all I’m looking forward to the continuation of a story that started over fourteen years ago.

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