That would be because either refers to a circle which contains 360 degrees.

Regardless, Season 8 looks fine to me. Would be great if someone would film it.

It is a commercial site.

On the other hand, this is real information that may well be welcome for people who read here, who care about Buffy.

So, unless the other contributors object, the post will remain.

Love, C.

Just Letting you know.

Doubtless. The standard plan for comic books, especially miniseries, is to publish the individual issues serially, then compile them together for graphic novel. If it’s popular enough (and this certainly is, with a third printing of issue one when issue three is new on the shelves), there will also be a hardback collection and sometimes even a prestige slipcased hardback.

There’s also a possibility of reprinting them as digest/manga-size, as that’s a popular format for libraries.

I’ve got the latest Girl Genius compilation on order for the extremely limited puffy-cover hardback, partly because I love the series, partly because I’ve gotten all the previous books in the same format and its nice to have a uniform set.

However, with the format of the reprints of the individual comics right now, I think you may be better off as a reader to just get all the individual issues in whatever printings and read them all together. There’s a certain pleasure in the lightness of an individual comic which a graphic novel can’t quite satisfy.

It is much appreciated.

I just finished watching the last 3 eps of Season 4 … wow, there is so much in that which we see again in Whedon’s Serenity movie, right down to Tara in “Restless”, in Indian dress and jewelry, sort of foreshadowing Innara.

Do you think these will be put together into one ‘book’?

Love, C.

Anyway, apart from the reprints having oddly retouched covers (not as pretty as the originals, but distinctive), these are not only good comics but good continuations of the story from before.

Yes, Dawn is a giant. Yes, I predicted right that this is something to do with her cosmic power. However, I don’t think it was chosen for how it would look on the comic book page. It’s an easy camera trick in Hollywood, and I expect it was something Joss was planning for Season 8 anyway if they got to film.

Having read the first two issues, it’s rather like giving a review to a Buffy episode halfway through. I expect a full-hour show is a four-issue mini-series. But it’s all good and entertaining. Buffy’s there. Xander’s there. Andrew has a fun scene. Amy’s back to cause trouble. Mysteries are spiced in. The end of Issue 2 and exactly at the half-hour commercial break is the dramatic reappearance of Willow, who I know has a featured role in Issue 3 when I paged through it last week.

Without spoiling much, there’s Joss’s usual clever dialogue as well as good characterization. Xander has his eyepatch since losing an eye. He’s in charge of a whole bunch of slayerettes at the new command central and has gotten dressed up as commando guy in a black sweater and slacks, which do look good with the eyepatch. But being Xander, when one of the slayerettes keeps calling him “Mr. Harris,” he corrects her, telling her to call him “Xander. Or Sgt. Fury.” Hee. Thereon follows entertaining comic book geek banter, since it has been established that Xander likes comic books and of course would style himself as Sgt. Fury. (Plot development later: The Slayerette in question is not actually a geek herself but has a thing for Xander, so has studied up on his interests so as to talk to him.)

I’m sorry for not seeing it on the screen, because the actors and set designers would be having fun with it. That said, the artist did instead, and it’s a very fun and satisfying read. Not the best Buffy ever, but better than the average season opener, and busy spicing in mysteries for later, including “Kenny,” Dawn’s mysterious and likely evil boyfriend and first time who we don’t see but hear discussed. Ditto Amy’s mysterious boyfriend.

There’s also, in the first couple of pages, a marvelous bit for folk who followed Angel as well. Remember the episode where Spike and Angel went to Rome, only to see Buffy in the distance ignoring them and slutting it up with someone called The Immortal? Well, it turns out this was a plan of Andrew’s, expertly played, since that Buffy is actually another slayerette who’s acting as body-double.

All-in-all, very good fun. If you’re a fan of the show, pick them up and continue the story.

Love, C.