Amazon says the final album, Last Gleaming, has been out for a couple of weeks or months, but I didn’t know untill now. Reading the comic is a bit like watching the series, and I enjoyed it very much. Any other Buffy fans read it?
I stuck with it as long as I could, but when it became obvious (to me at least) that Joss was just fucking with us/maintaining the cash flow, I quit reading. Must have been right after the “Enemy at the Gates” arc.
I stuck through the entire Season 8 and while it had some high points (such as Harmony appearing on “The Colbert Report”) it got to be grind after awhile. The concluding mini-arc involving the two vampires with souls was disjointed and dopey, IMHO.
I stopped when they shoehorned a lesbian love-interest for Buffy.
Be glad you never got to (spoilers, if you care.)
Flying, Earth-shattering, space-sex between Buffy and Angel. Oh, and Angel was Twilight and intentionally killed several of the slayers and innocents.
I lost interest when Twilight’s identity was revealed.
I mean… COME. ON.
I wonder if Joss had decided to poison the trademark & move on.
I read the first three or four issues from season eight and I disliked it quite a bit. Without the special effects limitations of television the comic series just has a lot of bloat in it. Super sized Dawn (writers don’t know what to do with her, do they?), bringing back villains from past seasons, and a cheesy lesbian encounter do not make for good stories. I think Buffy peaked with season 5 and it’s just been a downhill slide since then. At least seasons 6 and 7 were still pretty good. I regret picking up season 8 to read.
I’ve read some of them, but I’m way behind. Some of them I really like, some of them not so much.
I loved Giant Dawn fighting Robot Dawn in Japan. Robot Dawn’s dialogue was great. “I am a teenaged girl. I cry frequently. I make poor decisions regarding males.”
I liked the Dracula story arc as well. Although now that I think about it, that was the same story arc.
I also liked that Xander ended up with Dawn. Now that she’s grown up a bit, their relationship actually makes a lot of sense.
You guys make me almost ashamed I liked it. 
I didn’t like the Angel parts, though. I didn’t like the " after the fall" Angel comics, either. I don’t like Angel, period.
Joss said he will start working on Buffy season nine comic.
WTF
Who did you want him to wind up with? There’s an unwritten rule that the rejected love interest has to wind up with someone, and the higher up the chain, the better. And Dawn is number 3, if I remember correctly.
The only person I wanted him to wind up with was Willow, but that’s been eliminated as a possibility for a while.
I think it made sense. Dawn always had a crush on Xander, going all the way back to season 5. Xander always was a bit insecure, and he would do well with someone who had just a tiny bit of hero-worship for him. Because let’s face it, he is a hero, but he doesn’t always feel like he is because he’s overshadowed by the more powerful Buffy and Willow. Dawn sometimes feels the same way. There’s not really a huge age difference either. By the time of the comics Dawn is like 18-19, and Xander is about 22-23. Buffy was dating a guy who was 250 when she was 16.
Not a good match. Xander’s women have a tendency to either die (Anya, Slayer-Chick from the Dracula/RoboDawn arc) or be evil, possessed, or an insect (Bad Faith, Cordy, Mantis-Woman). He is destined to die alone and unloved by anything female.
Besides, Dawn is mine, dammit! Mine!
Uh, are we open spoilers in this thread? I have a question about Angel and would like an answer.
So, he was Twilight? Was he evil? Was he possessed by another spirit? Why was he doing bad things?
Anyone? Just curious.
I read part of that arc, and…it didn’t make a lot of sense, sorry.
There’s some good info at the Buffy wikia. But my impression was:
He called himself/his group Twilight, but there was also a real villain who was Twilight. Angel pretended to be a bad guy in order to put himself in control of all the various elements that would take arms against the slayers, to destroy Buffy’s real enemies from within, and also challenge Buffy to make her stronger. The actual villain Twilight was purporting to create some kind of utopic dimension using Angel and Buffy but it turned out to be a ruse to let demons onto Earth or something. They figured it out and rejected the utopia, but the only way to save Earth was to cut it off from magic permanently.
I’m not a shipper, so I never gave it any thought beyond the obvious crushes he had on Oz and Riley.