Dark Horse: Six Page Preview Of Buffy #6

Dark Horse have kindly allowed us fans to get a preview of #6 in the on-going “Buffy Season 8” comics by putting the first six pages online.

These have previously been seen in black and white as a pirated scan from Comic-Con, but they are now officially available from the publishers themselves in full colour.

This issue is the first part of Brian K. Vaughan’s “No Future For You”, a story arc for the Slayer Faith.

Click through to be spoiled! 😉

clipped from www.darkhorse.com Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8: #6 No Future for You The second arc of our bestselling Season Eight starts here. Top creator Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man; Pride of Baghdad; Lost) takes over writing duties and dives headlong into what Faith is up to-infiltration, assassination, and nonstop Cleveland. The fugitive Slayer is given the assignment that could change her life . . . if Giles’s specialized training doesn’t make her want to end it first. Artist Georges Jeanty (The American Way) remains at the top of his game–and Joss Whedon stays on as Executive Producer–in this first part of “No Future for You.”

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BBC To Make Joss Whedon’s “Ripper”?

According to TV Squad and their report from San Diego’s ComicCon, Joss has reported that negotiations are almost complete with the BBC to make a 90 minute special of the long-awaited “Ripper”, starring my favourite watcher, Anthony Stewart Head.

There is plenty of other Joss news reported, but this was the one that got my attention. Also check out the Whedon ballet starring Summer Glau. 😉

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Doctor Who = Buffy?

Hannah Betts over at the Times Online compares the modern Doctor Who with Joss Whedon’s “Buffy”, looking at Russell T. Davies ‘sexing up’ of the series. Mr. Davies has previously expressed his admiration for Joss’ work, and it certainly shows in the latest installments.I for one am really enjoying the current series of Doctor Who, though I would still sacrifice it for more Whedon. 😉

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clipped from entertainment.timesonline.co.uk The Doctor’s recreator, Russell T. Davies, has expressed his admiration for Joss Whedon, the genius behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the series gets Buffier by the moment: witty, literate, sophisticated, and revelling in postmodern panache. Blink, the episode preceding this trilogy, was awesomely terrifying in the manner of Whedon’s Emmy Award-nominated silent episode of Buffy entitled Hush. There’s another pleasing aspect to all this Buffiness: a certain – let us express it in Blair terminology – sexing up of proceedings.

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James Marsters Q & A: Collectormania 11

For those of us who were unable to attend Collectormania this year Steve Himber over at James Marsters Live.com has kindly provided a transcript of the Q & A from the Sunday.

As always James is very entertaining and there are plenty of great anecdotes that he shares, looking at his singing as well as his acting, and some of his hopes for the future. The full Q & A was over an hour so there is plenty to read, just makes me really wish I could of been there to hear it all ‘live’.

It’s well worth a taking a look at so click through for the full transcript.

 

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Buffy #6: Jo Chen Cover Art

Jo Chen’s cover art for Issue 6 of Joss Whedon’s ‘Buffy Season 8’ is now online at Comic Art Community, and Faith has never looked better!

This is a Brian Vaughn issue, the first one of this series not to be written by Joss himself, so it will be interesting to see what Vaughn does with this.

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Herc’s Buffy Season 8 #4 Review

Hercules The Strong over at the Ain’t It Cool news site has posted his review for the fourth issue of Joss Whedon’s Buffy Season 8 comics, the review is full of spoilers so beware clicking through!In brief? He likes it! 😉

clipped from www.aintitcool.com Herc’s Seen Episode 8.4 Of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER!! I’ve been a bad bad Hercules. Issue four of Dark Horse’s new “Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” series has been on the stands since Wednesday, but all sorts of last-minute stuff – mounting piles of pilots and Galactica and Jericho and Veronica – kept me out of the comic-book stores until a few hours ago. But I’ve now read and digested the wonderful “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 8.4, which successfully concludes writer/mastermind Joss Whedon’s excellent initial “season-eight” arc.

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Willow Rosenberg Makes ‘Zoom-In’ Top 5 List

Todd Howard at Zoom-In Online has posted his choice for the top 5 Fictional Female Characters In Movies Or TV, looking at them from a slightly different angle, as a collaborative rendering.Of course any such list would be incomplete without at least one Joss Whedon character, in this case he is looking at Alyson Hannigans portrayal of Willow Rosenberg.

Also making the Top 5 are Dana Scully, Annie Hall, Ruth Fisher and Calamity Jane, with some excellent other choices getting a mention too.

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clipped from www.zoom-in.com Top 5 Favorite Collaborative Renderings Of A Fictional Female Character In Movies or TV Joss Whedon’s writing and Alyson’s delivery—not to mention how she plays off Buffy and Xander when the Scooby Gang is in it’s best form—are really excellent, and in the spirit of what this TV and movie stuff is supposed to be about, over-the-top entertaining.

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Brian Lynch on “Spike:Shadow Puppets” and “Angel: Season 6”

Over at Fractal Matter they have an excellent interview with Brian Lynch looking at his work on the ‘Spike’ comic series and talking about the upcoming “Angel:Season 6”, let’s hope that this project is as big a success as the “Buffy comics.

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clipped from fractalmatter.com With his latest comic, Spike: Shadow Puppets due out in June (and reviewed here already!) Fractal Matter caught up for a chat with Mr Brian Lynch to discuss all that is vampire related… FM: With the success of the Buffy: Season 8 comic book, what are you looking forward to most with bringing Angel: Season 6 to fruition?BL:Holding the book in my hands and realizing I had input on the future of my favorite characters. No bullcrap, Angel was my favorite show of all time. To be asked to be part of it’s future, in any medium, by Joss Whedon himself? Dream come true. I’m also looking forward to hearing people’s reactions. I think what we have planned is gonna knock people down, steal their wallets, pick them up, dust them off, fix their hair, give them a hoagie and a ride to the nearest carnival, accompany them on the tilt-a-whirl, hold their hair when they get sick, and pay for cab fare home. It’s THAT much fun.

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Collectormania 11: Videos And Pictures

Collectormania 11 was held two weeks ago in Milton Keynes, in the UK. For those of us that weren’t able to be there I thought I would gather together a few of the videos and pictures that the fans took of members of the Whedon ‘verse that were in attendance.

You can view some of the videos in my Collectormania Vodpod, and some pictures from Flickr here, here and here.

Enjoy. 🙂

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Whedon Actors TV Round Up

I have been taking a look around the entertainment sites over the weekend, trying to get a handle on which projects to follow over the next season, and so far it is looking pretty good.

Watch With Kristin reports on a couple of new series you may want to follow:

• Nurses: Sara Rue and Eliza Dushku costar in this soapy dramedy set in an urban hospital staffed by beautiful practitioners of medicine. (Hey, it worked for Scrubs, House and Grey’s!)
• The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Based on The Terminator movies, Lena Headey (300) takes over for Linda Hamilton as Sarah, and Thomas Dekker (Clairebear’s pal Zach from Heroes) costars as John Connor. *The main interest for Whedon fans is that Summer Glau will be playing the role of a female Terminator in this series*

Unfortunately both of these series will be running on the Fox network, so we will have to see how long these run for.

More good news though, according to ZAP2it.com it looks as if “How I Met Your Mother” will be picked up for another season:

• A rumored CBS schedule circulating on the eve of upfronts includes on-the-bubble comedies “How I Met Your Mother,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “Rules of Engagement.” CBS is likely to maintain a Monday night comedy block that includes third seasons of “HIMYM” and “Christine,” as well as a second run of mid-season comedy “Rules.” *Looks as though our favourite witch Alyson Hannigan is still working her magic*

With David Boreanaz still going strong as Seeley Booth in “Bones” it looks as though there is plenty to look forward to on the small screen. If only “Drive” hadn’t been canceled.

Speaking of which, there is an amusing little video interview of “Slither” director James Gunn over at Collider.com partially conducted by our captain, Nathan Fillion. Nice bit of begging for employment going on. 😉

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