I'm coming really late to the party here, but I have to say I really enjoyed your analysis. I completely agree with you about the portal and Willow's magic. In issue #1 Joss has the magic-scientist-type guy tell Voll that there are no rules with magic, but I'm very sorry that he decided to go that way. Since anything is possible it destroys the tension of the story.
I want Ethan to stay dead. After Warren being not-dead, and Willow being not-mutilated and all the soldiers being healed and everything being all nice and good, I took Ethan's death as proof that people can still die in the Buffyverse. I don't want that taken back.
About novels, they're a totally different medium. Personally, I love writing scripts, hate writing prose. Joss is a visual story-teller. His talent won't necessarily translate well into novels.
And I disagree anyways that comics are unsuitable for dealing with serious issues and themes. Comics have dealt with serious, complicated themes. Graphic novels are really coming into their own now as a serious literary genre too, so I think that opens up the possibilities of being serious in mainstream comics as well. Also, comic books are a subculture genre, and I think it's possible to push the envelope a lot more in terms of disturbing content in comics than, say, on TV.
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Date: 2007-06-17 07:47 pm (UTC)I want Ethan to stay dead. After Warren being not-dead, and Willow being not-mutilated and all the soldiers being healed and everything being all nice and good, I took Ethan's death as proof that people can still die in the Buffyverse. I don't want that taken back.
About novels, they're a totally different medium. Personally, I love writing scripts, hate writing prose. Joss is a visual story-teller. His talent won't necessarily translate well into novels.
And I disagree anyways that comics are unsuitable for dealing with serious issues and themes. Comics have dealt with serious, complicated themes. Graphic novels are really coming into their own now as a serious literary genre too, so I think that opens up the possibilities of being serious in mainstream comics as well. Also, comic books are a subculture genre, and I think it's possible to push the envelope a lot more in terms of disturbing content in comics than, say, on TV.