A little comic book rant

I just read the 4 first issues in the original Buffy series(the one with over 60 issues). I've found lots of time inconsistencies. It seems to be season 3 post Band candy, yet pre-Suprise, still post Surprise, for several reasons, to just mentioned a few times markers that make no sense when combined (for example, Oz is there, knowing about monsters, which sets the comic post-Innocence, yet both souled Angel and Spike & Dru are around, which makes it pre-What's my line?)

How could this comic be published? The writer(s) and the editor(s) couldn't have watched the show that closely. Here I thought Joss read and approved every comic. Was that wrong, or did he just read summarizations?

It will be interesting to see how Darkhorse have placed them in the Buffy omnibuses, which are suppose to be chronological. I was thinking about making a list of continuity errors for the series, time wise and plot wise, but it's 60-ish issues, and I can't be bothered. I do love to whine, but that's taking it too far.

EDIT- 5th August 2010

Seems like I put my foot in my mouth. But just a little. I've read up until issue 11 now, and I overreacted about the Dru/Spike thing, since Buffy could have been worried about them returning in Season 3 as well. Also, another character mentioned that they left town. So this series seems to follow the Season 3 story, definitly set after Beauty and the Beasts, since Angel is back. But I found a big inconsistency.

Buffy & Angel are dating, comfortably it seems. So is Cordelia & Xander. How does that work? Angel & Buffy didn't get couply until way after Lover's Walk(they were "just friends" as they told Spike), but that's when Xander & Cordelia broke up, due to the cheating.

I could probably go back, read the issues again to try to make sense of it, and re-evaluate the other inconsistencies I found with this non-Spike&Dru error in mind, but I'm too lazy.

Fiddly bits theater

sockmonkeyhere posted this amusing sideshow doll story over at livejournal:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

DVDs missing scenes!

Not sure if I should get the Chosen DVD collection now, since it's region 1...

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Comic art contest winner revealed

Earlier this summer slayalive.com had a Season 8 comic contest announced, with Georges Jeanty (main artists for season 8) as soul judge. Winners have now been revealed, in the first entry here (scroll down). Too see which number each entry has(so you know who Georges is refering to), and to see which entries were slayalive'e own favorites, go here (I'm number 14).

This is the winning entry: CLICK

Faith maquette

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Those are supposedly the first pictures of the next statue in the new sideshow line (first one was Throne of the Slayer, ex and regular).

Word online is that this was suppose to have been revealed at San Diego Comic Con, but was delayed for some reason (likness issues maybe?), so this might not be the final version of the statue.

It is however clear that they "borrowed" the pose from this Jo Chen cover (Season 8, issue 6):

Weekly feature: What to buy?

The sodas I mentioned here are now available for sale. Unfortunally just for the US and parts of Canada. But some will probably turn up on ebay (probably overprized).

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Weekly feature: Excerpt from original script

From Dirty Girls, the season 7 episode when Caleb and Faith arrive in Sunnydale (pressumingly, since that's the first time I remember seeing Caleb).

"Faith offers a possible reason why the blind Bringers are so good in battle:
'They say your other senses get better. Maybe all blind people are smokin' in a knife fight... Not sayin' it's likely.'"