It's possible that only ruthiepoos and myself will be excited by this article, but I am practically love-weeing at the thought of a Buffy Season 8. But before I get ahead of myself, let's review what there is to love about the slayer of vampires. She came into my life at just the right time (Mar 1997) as the news of Lois and Clark's demise and I was looking for a new slightly supernatural drama with a nice bit of tortured romance. First season of Buffy just seemed so wickedly inventive, acerbic and seemed to have more of a narrative; an idea of where it was going than Lois and Clark. Plus it had the Buffy-Angel romance. A vampire in love with the slayer? Delicious! Over 7 seasons there was terror, heartbreak, death, rebirth, anger, redemption, humour, more love triangles than you could ever imagine, metaphors, incredible writing and sheer entertainment. I could write an awful lot about this show, and possibly one day will ( but quickly, just out of interest some of my fave episodes include the Surprise/Innocence two parter, the season two finale Becoming, Amends, the season three finale Graduation, Hush, most of season five but particularly The Body and The Gift, Once More With Feeling and Chosen. All magnificent), but for now its just utterly super that Buffy is back. In comic form. Joss Whedon is writing and overseeing a new Buffy comic that will be available from Dark Horse in March 2007 and each issue will be like an episode from the show culminating in a season finale sometime in 2008. I. Can't. Wait.
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LINK: Joss Whedon on the new Buffy comic
LINK: Purchase Buffy on DVD
MP3: Cibo Matto – Sugar Water (from season two premiere of Buffy)
