Brief thoughts on Buffy season 8 no 24
Apr. 2nd, 2009 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightNo gems from Comic Shop Boy today, I'm afraid, as Comic Shop Bloke tells me he's given him some time off, due to Comic Shop Boy having broken his foot in two places while paintballing. :Pets him:
Never mind. Comic Shop Bloke and I bonded over a discussion of the Watchmen movie, which we've both been to see this week (not together - I went with S and the girls). We agreed it was a pretty faithful rendition of the original story and that on the whole we were impressed. I have a few thoughts on various aspects of the film which troubled me a great deal (had forgotten about the existence of these plot points, as it's so long since I read the book), but am not sure if I want to share them. If I do, the post will be flocked.
Anyway, on to the comic, about which I really don't have a lot to say. Spoilers, of course.
I can't even do my Things I Liked/Things I Didn't Like about this issue, because the only things I liked were Jo Chen's cover, which is wonderful, as always, and the letters page, which is good for a laugh, and for Scott Allie making a twat of himself again.
No 20 (the Buffy cartoon issue) may have been the most pointless, but this issue has to be the most boring. How someone could make Faith and Giles boring, I have no idea, but this Jim Kreuger person has managed to do it. He's also given us a version of Germany based on the original Frankenstein movie (have just seen some pics of Germany on the telly, and weirdly, they've moved on from the horse and cart era and have cars now), to go with the Brigadoon version of Scotland and the Generic-Teen-Movie-Where-Brash-American-Consorts-With-Cliched-Upper-Class-Brit version of the English aristocracy, as seen in Brian K Vaughan's Faith and Giles arc.
I don't get it. If the writers of these things are too lazy even to try googling stuff for research purposes, why don't they just set all their stories in America?
That aside, Faith doesn't actually have much to do in this comic except get rescued by Giles. The villain is another Generic Stuffy Brit, who ends up as monster kibble, and the answer to whether or not the Chosen can choose not to be Chosen is revealed at last. They can't. If they do, they'll get eaten by monsters, so basically it's fight or die.
I honestly don't know how a story about Faith and Giles - two of the most interesting characters in the 'verse - could fail so badly, but it does. Not worth the paper it's printed on.
4 out of 10.
On the plus side, though, at least it merits a review, no matter how bad. The latest issue of the Angel series, Angel: Aftermath no 2, or whatever it's actually called, is so appallingly bad that I prefer to erase it from my memory.
Never mind. Comic Shop Bloke and I bonded over a discussion of the Watchmen movie, which we've both been to see this week (not together - I went with S and the girls). We agreed it was a pretty faithful rendition of the original story and that on the whole we were impressed. I have a few thoughts on various aspects of the film which troubled me a great deal (had forgotten about the existence of these plot points, as it's so long since I read the book), but am not sure if I want to share them. If I do, the post will be flocked.
Anyway, on to the comic, about which I really don't have a lot to say. Spoilers, of course.
I can't even do my Things I Liked/Things I Didn't Like about this issue, because the only things I liked were Jo Chen's cover, which is wonderful, as always, and the letters page, which is good for a laugh, and for Scott Allie making a twat of himself again.
No 20 (the Buffy cartoon issue) may have been the most pointless, but this issue has to be the most boring. How someone could make Faith and Giles boring, I have no idea, but this Jim Kreuger person has managed to do it. He's also given us a version of Germany based on the original Frankenstein movie (have just seen some pics of Germany on the telly, and weirdly, they've moved on from the horse and cart era and have cars now), to go with the Brigadoon version of Scotland and the Generic-Teen-Movie-Where-Brash-American-Consorts-With-Cliched-Upper-Class-Brit version of the English aristocracy, as seen in Brian K Vaughan's Faith and Giles arc.
I don't get it. If the writers of these things are too lazy even to try googling stuff for research purposes, why don't they just set all their stories in America?
That aside, Faith doesn't actually have much to do in this comic except get rescued by Giles. The villain is another Generic Stuffy Brit, who ends up as monster kibble, and the answer to whether or not the Chosen can choose not to be Chosen is revealed at last. They can't. If they do, they'll get eaten by monsters, so basically it's fight or die.
I honestly don't know how a story about Faith and Giles - two of the most interesting characters in the 'verse - could fail so badly, but it does. Not worth the paper it's printed on.
4 out of 10.
On the plus side, though, at least it merits a review, no matter how bad. The latest issue of the Angel series, Angel: Aftermath no 2, or whatever it's actually called, is so appallingly bad that I prefer to erase it from my memory.