Oh, for the love of Chuck Jones! What the Don Heck is going on with this comic! Some spoilers ahead.



Thoughts on S8 #35:

My first exact thought was of General Ackbar. He and Buffy would get along.



"We can't repel stupidity of this magnitude!" Buffy and Angel get to rehash basically their last meeting in Chosen, only Buffy talks about cheese rather than cookies. Dear sweet Jesus.

Other thoughts:

1. "There is no balance. Not anymore." When has nature ever been balanced? That's the whole idea of survival of the fittest. There will always be weaker creatures that either adapt to survive or get eaten and die off. It's the way of the world, always has been. Buffy's little Slayer-Fairy-Godmother bit didn't change things. If anything, it should have created more of a balance. What the hell is wrong with you, Giles?

2. Thank you, Season Eight, for making the acopaclypse a big, scary birth metaphor. Way to win one of the feminism team! Now let's make a metaphor about Buffy eating the birth-sacks from her demonic offspring brought forth by her inter-dimensional boinking. I dare you.

2. So, Warren gets redemption by showing that he cares somewhat about Andrew? It's very sad that Warren will probably get more development than any other character... besides Riley.

3. When Buffy walks into the big white space, did anyone else want to see a screw and a baseball above Angel's head ala Chuck Jones's "Duck Amuck" (1953)?


Chuck Jones is rolling over in his grave. Speaking of "Duck Amuck," doesn't this also look familiar? Dimensions! Caving in! Oh the duckmanity!


4. Does Buffy get to wear Nikki's outfit? And why is Angel dressed like Don Johnson from Miami Vice? :shock:

5. So, Angel has no to reason to live in this reality? Not even for his son? Not even so that he can do the right thing, go on living and fighting and being a champion so that the sacrifices made by his friends wouldn't be in vain? Well, isn't he just King Douchebag.

6. Can I say that I am glad Willow is being all snarky to Buffy? She and Angel deserve to be beaten with blunt instruments once all the demons are slayed for being so fucking stupid. "I know, I know, you don't know what came all over you." Ewwwwwwww. Vampire spoo will never come out of denim.

7. And so Spike has a tank-y thing that looks like the love child between the Nautilus from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Archie from the Watchmen. Stop it, Jeanty. Even the steampunkness can't save you.

8. So Spike enters, saying that he can stop all the demons and the "Twilight" business with his fancy rings and shiny black nailpolish, cock-ring bondage boots, and his tiny hands. Jesus H. Christ on a Bike, Jeanty. Hands should be proportional to the face. James Marsters has a big head but his hands are proportional to that big head. Go die in a fire!

This whole comic is going to end with Joss Whedon, staring at the audience over a drafting table, saying, "Ain't I a stinker?"

From: [identity profile] owenthurman.livejournal.com


"There is no balance. Not anymore." When has nature ever been balanced? That's the whole idea of survival of the fittest.

That's not how evolution works in the Buffyverse. Owen explains it all in my post, http://owenthurman.livejournal.com/48387.html .

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Haha! Very nice post. I wonder what Whistler's thinking about all this. XD

From: [identity profile] mulder200.livejournal.com


"We can't repel stupidity of this magnitude!" Buffy and Angel get to rehash basically their last meeting in Chosen, only Buffy talks about cheese rather than cookies. Dear sweet Jesus.

OMG! What the Hell? That is just too funny for words.

6. Eww! That is just wrong!


From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


I like Angry!Willow. I hope that anger lasts long enough after the battle for her to lay a verbal and hopefully physical smackdown on both Buffy and Angel.

From: [identity profile] nonothrthnme.livejournal.com


"and his tiny hands. Jesus H. Christ on a Bike, Jeanty."

SRSLY I'm all "wtf? whose are those? Is Dawn in his pants pockets or something, reaching up to play one of those weird mime games??!"

whatthehell?? Whole thing's gone bushel in a handcart to hell. bleeech.

*sadface*

you make me laugh tho

From: (Anonymous)


Oh man I'd LOVE that!! Of course it'll never happen...the stupidity will be swept under the rug. Grr.

~Ami

From: (Anonymous)


LOL Great review fender! King Douchebag OMG! *dies*

Spike's tiny hands..ugh! Dammit Jeanty learn to draw.*headdesk*

And why is Spike wearing nail polish and jewelry?

~Ami

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Well, Spike wore similar jewelry (not gold though) in Season Six, but he stopped wearing black nail polish during Season Five, so it's kind of a mystery.

From: [identity profile] sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com


That issue read like a Mad Magazine parody. O_O

Only without the wit.

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Yeah, very strange indeed. I don't like this unapologetic, sex-having-without-loss-of-apparent-soul Angel. I would just prefer it that if he was going to come over someone that that someone be Spike. XD
next_to_normal: (spike huh)

From: [personal profile] next_to_normal


So Spike enters, saying that he can stop all the demons and the "Twilight" business with his fancy rings and shiny black nailpolish, cock-ring bondage boots, and his tiny hands. Jesus H. Christ on a Bike, Jeanty. Hands should be proportional to the face. James Marsters has a big head but his hands are proportional to that big head. Go die in a fire!

YES. That was the very first thing I noticed about Spike. WTF with the tiny hands??

From: [identity profile] emac66.livejournal.com


Huh....as being someone who has seen NONE of the comics, I have to say, kinda glad at this point!! Sounds like it has all gone to shit!!
Am kinda interseted in seeing anti-Buffy Willow though.....

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Joss wants a tie-in deal with Burger King like Seth Macfarlane has?
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From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Willow will probably forget all her angry thoughts once the fighting's over. Boo to that, I say! I want her mad as hell! I want everyone mad as hell towards Buffy at this point.

From: [identity profile] ever-neutral.livejournal.com

here via petzi


Jesus H. Christ on a Bike, Jeanty. Hands should be proportional to the face. James Marsters has a big head but his hands are proportional to that big head. Go die in a fire!

BAHA. You expressed that much more eloquently than I could. (Especially the last part.)

You consistently bring the funny. Please carry on.

From: [identity profile] kidcyclone.livejournal.com


I just wrote a paper on Samuel Beckett and existential absurdity in Duck Amuck. <33
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