Buffy and Angel Comics

[laura_seabrook]

A few weeks ago I read part one of the comic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight, which finally found its way into the local library. Not a bad effort. the writing was slightly better than the average Buffy comic and it took the characters in interesting directions (when will they get parts 2 and 3?).

Anyway, I just discovered that there's also an Angel: After the Fall comic series as well, which follows on from the last episode. Hmmm, I think I know what I'll put a request in for next.

Apparently both are supposed to be "canon", meaning that they're accepted by "official" sources as part of the continuity of the series. Most of the time (unless it's the Star Wars universe) comics based on TV shows are merchandise, rather than canon, because either a) no major changes (or ones that that changed back) happen to any major characters in such stories, and b) they seldom have any effect on the main story's continuity. Of course both these comics take place after the TV shows, and they're not making more of either, so I guess that gives the writers free reign to do what they like (though please, no Canon Defilement or Reset Buttons like the  One More Day hash in Spiderman).

Hmmm . 

Comments

[highlandish.livejournal.com]

i have all the downloaded copies of season eight, and half of angel after the fall, but i havent started reading them yet, plus a bunch of spike and drusilla and stand alone stories with all the characters. i love them.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

downloaded copies? hmmm

[highlandish.livejournal.com]

dunno if you approve or disapprove by that "hmmmm", however they are "cbr" format and can be viewed with any cbr "comic book reader" program. cbr's are downloaded via isohunt.com for a torrent program.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

ah - i've come across cbr format and readers, but never anything in it.