I’m not sure why, but I find it interesting that my favorite television blog, TV Squad, is treating the much-anticipated Buffy the Vampire Series “Season 8″ as if it were a TV show — complete with a rundown of the first issue by regular Buffy reviewer Keith McDuffee.
The headline even refers to the issue as the “season premiere.”
And the television comparisons don’t end there.
“The pace of a small comic book is certainly going to be very different than a TV episode,” McDuffee writes. “In fact, from cover to cover, this issue’s pace to me felt very much like the cold open of a TV episode; I could almost hear the familiar wolf howl after the last page.”
March 16th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Many will try and knock the book down a peg, but I felt like an old friend had returned. It was funny, exciting, dramatic, and typical Buffy.
March 17th, 2007 at 12:13 am
It’s definately got “gateway” potential. I was talking to my LCS guy this morning and they’ve had a huge influx of civilians looking for this comic. It’s blown THE DARK TOWER totally out-of-the-water, at least where I live - TV obviously has a broader appeal than books, and for TV viewers, buying a comic could seem like an intellectual “step up” whereas book readers might consider it beneath them.