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Matt (angelophile) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-01 18:45:00

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char: buffy summers, creator: jo chen, creator: joss whedon, publisher: dark horse, theme: slash, title: buffy the vampire slayer

Slash? In my Buffy? It's more likely than you think.

The MySpace based freebie Dark Horse Presents has a short Buffy the Vampire Slayer story up, written by Joss Whedon and with art by the wonderful Jo Chen.

And it's full of crack. And slash.

I'm not sure this counts as particularly slashy or crowd pleasing since absolutely nothing happens on panel. It's weird that the real James Marsters is quite happy to play tonsil hockey with another bloke in Torchwood, but they felt the need to make his comic likeness fool around off screen, so to speak.

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	04nbod 2009-07-01 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Its so unusual to see the characters look like the actors in a buffyverse comic. All Hail Jo Chen (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rayerai 2009-07-07 02:33 am UTC (link)
	All hail indeed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sherkahn 2009-07-01 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	Wait.... WTF?! those two are who I think they are, yes? Not demon's in disguise? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-07-01 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	it was a joke in the first half, Buffy dreams of Angel/Spike Threesomes...in heart shaped beds...in a nurse's outfit...with rose petals (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stolisomancer 2009-07-01 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	It's funnier that way. I mean, really. "Sproing"? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-07-01 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	Rub-a Rub-a? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	angelophile 2009-07-01 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	Funnier, sure. But that's the trouble with Whedon. While he's able to treat female sexuality semi-seriously, the only way he's ever dealt with male homosexuality is as a joke or for comic effect (Xander, kinda gay, ho ho, Larry the jock's a homo, lol, Andrew and Jonathan, tee hee etc) unless there's a gay character played straight (so to speak) in Firefly? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	newnumber6 2009-07-01 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, Jo Chen doing actual interiors. Kinda wish she could do a short Runaways story. ... Or that she'd just go back to doing their covers. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dorksidefiker 2009-07-01 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder how many I would have to sacrifice to my dark overlords to make that happen... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-07-01 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	Why the Hell is Light Yagami a priest? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grazzt 2009-07-01 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	First step in becoming the god of a new world: bring down the old God from within. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	thanekos 2009-07-01 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	surprisingly, god of the new world and gin ichimaru (oh, tvtropes-esque epileptic theories) are jobs that just don't pay well. oddly enough, neither does priesthood. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-07-01 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	There's a very similar scene in Whedon's Runaways arc. Karolina leans in to kiss Xavin and it awkwardly cuts to other character's reaction. Which was...more than a little frustrating, since they could show Victor cheating on his girlfriend by kissing Lillie on panel, but bleh, I'm cranky today. Look, pretty Jo Chen art! (Reply to this)

	bean_montag 2009-07-01 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Aaand I'm about to break and watch Torchwood. Damn it. Love this artwork! I am like, so taken Buffy's hands for some reason... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bean_montag 2009-07-01 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	taken WITH* eh.... heh. ^_^; (Reply to this) (Parent)

	liarashadowsong 2009-07-01 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	James Marsters makes out with a guy on Torchwood? researches the series Damn, that sounds like a good show, regardless of the sexiness that is James Marsters. And it seems to be on DVD. Must see if the public library near my college has copies for me to borrow mixed in with the Smallville and Sex in the City DVDs this fall. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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unknownscribler
2009-07-02 12:04 pm UTC (link)

You can happily skip most of season 1 -- there's only 3 episodes that are good (Ghost Machine, Out of Time and Captain Jack Harkness) plus another 3 that are reasonable (Greeks Bearing Gifts, Random Shoes & Small Worlds). The rest are pedestrian to actively bad (Cyber Woman, Countrycide, End of Days).

Season 2 is a dramatic improvement in every sense of the term.

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	icon_uk 2009-07-01 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Everybody die always" is an incredibly clumsy line. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	liarashadowsong 2009-07-01 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	Kyaaaaaa! Onscreeen please, dammit! Onscreen! And/or replace Angel with Xander. (for about three seconds, I thought that was Xander and not Angel, actually, and then I read it instead of staring at panel four) (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	wingsonwater 2009-07-01 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	So, Buffy's fantasizing about Angel with an attempted rapist scumbag? Ew. (Reply to this) (Thread)

If you're going to be technical about it - (Anonymous), 2009-07-02 07:09 am UTC

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	midare 2009-07-01 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	I... always tought Jo Chen would be horrible as an interior artist, but this page is much better than her covers, IMHO. I'm very pleasantly surprised. (also, I love how those cartoony hearts and sound effects work with yellowish realistic shafing. thumbs up And those two discreet "what the heck" standing hairs on Buffy's head in the last panel :D) (Reply to this)

	kabukiokami 2009-07-01 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	I love all the cameos in the last page. Lurch! I don't get - well, actually yeah, I do. It's Buffy so it's allll about Buffy So her bestest friend who brought her back from the dead, Willow, is just sitting in a pew - not a bridesmaid or anything. I don't know if I'll ever get use to pirate!Xander. But I just might have to icon his smiley face in the last panel of the story. (Reply to this)

	foxhack 2009-07-01 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	He used the word. In a comic. $deity help us all, HE KNOWS ABOUT YOU SLASHERS! (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	scottyquick 2009-07-02 01:52 am UTC (link)
	Jo Chen's interiors are almost BETTER then her covers! What's the point of the word balloons? (Reply to this)

	timemonkey 2009-07-02 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	It's funny because it's cannon that Spike and Angel have done that in 'real life'. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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