{"id":208,"date":"2006-07-06T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/06\/buffy-season-8-in-comics\/"},"modified":"2006-07-06T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T23:48:22","slug":"buffy-season-8-in-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Buffy Season 8 (In Comics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few bits of new news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com\/rage\/11519999044950.htm\" target=\"_blank\">have trickled out<\/a> regarding Buffy&#8217;s next &#8220;season,&#8221; which will appear exclusively in comics form:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking of Joss Whedon related concepts; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard a few things about the forthcoming Buffy season eight comics. As Whedon himself noted a few weeks ago, the first mini is going to be four issues and he is also laying out the story for the rest of the season. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been told that the storyline is roughly 20 issues, spread across multiple miniseries and that Whedon will be recruiting some of his former Buffy writers to handle the bulk of the writing chores, though Whedon may return to write the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153season finale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d himself.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also told that the first issue starts with Buffy and some of the other Slayers on a covert ops mission\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far, sounds damned exceptional. And it begs a MAJOR question: Why isn&#8217;t this kind of thing done ALL THE TIME? I realize licensed comics are a mixed bag at best, and that readers know that to an extent. But this is a step above&#8211;the original auteur of a cult series returning to imagine the continuation of the story and recruiting former series writers to bring the whole shebang to life.<\/p>\n<p>Alias seems a prime candidate for this. Also, for some reason, Twin Peaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few bits of new news have trickled out regarding Buffy&#8217;s next &#8220;season,&#8221; which will appear exclusively in comics form: Speaking of Joss Whedon related concepts; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard a few things about the forthcoming Buffy season eight comics. As Whedon himself noted a few weeks ago, the first mini is going to be four issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}