The Last Watcher

It's my summer_of_giles posting day today. My contribution linked below.

Setting: London, post-series
Rating: PG-13/shading on R for use of a naughty word, and implicit m/m sex.
Pairing: Giles/Ethan
Beta: dwyld read it through for me.
1500 words.
Charity begins at home.

The Last Watcher

The Incestuous World of Comics: or How the Buffy Comics are like the X-Men: Addendum

Back in September last year I made two posts on the above subject, here and here, the first about the similarities between 'shipping arguments (or more like 'shipping knock-down, drag-out fights) in the X-Men fandom and the Buffy fandom, and the second about how mainstream comics often don't write female characters well (for which also see Comics!Buffy).

Well, I've been lurking on the CBR comics forums again, specifically in the X-Men section, and I've found yet another parallel, this time to the perception among some Buffy comics readers that Angel's season 8 actions are being systematically retconned and whitewashed.

Contains spoilers for recent X-Men storylines, should anyone care.

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