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Longtime Coaxial readers know I’m a old fan of Los Angeles’ Paley Fest; I even met my man Harry Knowles for the first time waiting in line at the fest for a “South Park” event.
For a few weeks in March each year the festival honors a handful of shows, typically by screening an episode before having the cast and creators answer questions.
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Melaka Fray, the future-slayer created by “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” mastermind Joss Whedon in the funnybooks just before Buffy ended her UPN run in 2003, will meet and maybe punch present-slayer Buffy Summers in an arc apparently written by Whedon for Buffy’s ongoing “Season Eight” Dark Horse comic-book series.
“Fray” artist Karl Moline will draw the storyline.
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I am – Hercules!!
Just a reminder here that the Xander-free seventh issue of Dark Horse Comics' “Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” hit the local comic book stores Wednesday. It’s titled “No Future For You: Part II” and represents the second issue scripted by Brian K. Vaughn.
Faith is now on her Euro-mission for Giles (in a story, I believe, originally inteneded for a never-realized Vaughn-scripted Faith TV-movie), but we also get a three-page interlude featuring Flying Willow and Giant Dawn, neither of whom we've glimpsed since issue four.
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I am – Hercules!!
Time just published its “100 Best TV Shows” list, and I’d give it solid B-plus.
I know some will find it controversial! “Battlestar Galactica” made the list; “Babylon 5” did not. “Freaks and Geeks” made the list; “That ‘70s Show” did not. “The Real World” made the list; “The Joe Schmo Show” did not. “Saturday Night Live” made the list; “MadTV” did not. “Gilmore Girls” made the list; “Desperate Housewives” did not. “South Park” made the list; “Family Guy” did not. “King of the Hill” made the list; “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” did not. “Survivor” and “An American Family” made the list; “Breaking Bonaduce” and “The Osbournes” did not. “The Office” made the list; “My Name Is Earl” did not. “Felicity” and “Deadwood” made the list; “Dexter” and “Nip/Tuck” did not.
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Just a reminder that issue six of Joss Whedon’s “Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” hits the comic-book stores today.
The new issue is scripted by “Lost” writer and comic-book vet Brian K. Vaughn ("Y: The Last Man"). It begins a new story arc focusing on Faith the Vampire Slayer and re-introduces at least one character we got to know from the series’ UPN years.
MTV.com has a story on the matter, a story which notes that Vaughn was originally approached by Whedon to script a “Faith The Vampire Slayer” direct-to-DVD movie that fell apart due to money issues; Vaughn is now incorporating his ideas for that project into the funnybook.
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Eliza Dushku just signed a talent deal with Fox TV. From a Monday morning story in Variety:
The studio is now starting to integrate Dushku in the development process, giving her a chance to familiarize herself with some of the scribes who have deals at 20th.
Since, as I recall, one of the idling scribes still under contract at Fox is “Angel” vet Tim Minear (and Fox controls the rights to Dushku’s most famous character), why not put Minear and Dushku together for a new hourlong titled “Faith The Vampire Slayer”?
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I am – Hercules!!
1) UGO.com has come out with its 50 best TV shows of all time.
There are picks I believe a lot of us can get behind. “The Wire” at #2. “Galactica” at #3. “Freaks And Geeks” at #7. But once we get into the double digits, the ranking may strike many as ... more controversial.
The UGO list ranks:
* “Saved By The Bell” (#29) higher than “Seinfeld” (#41),
* “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” (#19) higher than “The Colbert Report” (#36),
* “The Brady Bunch (#20) higher than “Newsradio” (#22),
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I am – Hercules!!
Last month Dark Horse Comics auctioned off five seats to an intimate six-seat Comic-Con dinner with “Buffy”/”Firefly” mastermind Joss Whedon to benefit Equality Now. It was held July 27 in a private dining room of San Diego’s Greystone Steakhouse.
Each winning bidder paid more for this meal than I ever paid for a car:
$11,100
$11,000
$10,410
$10,200
$9,400
The winners were:
* Suzanne Brockmann, famous romance novelist from Boston;
* Ed Gaffney, writer and Suzanne’s husband;
* Karen, a lyricist from Boston;
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“Ripper,” a Rupert Giles-centric BBC project Joss Whedon has been talking about since the fifth season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” may yet manifest.
Speaking at a Dark Horse Comic Con event in San Diego Saturday, Whedon says he now hopes to launch “Ripper” as a 90-minute BBC movie in 2008.
In the current Whedon-masterminded "Buffy: Season Eight" comic-book series, Giles is busy training a platoon of vampire slayers. Hopefully the new project will acknowledge this?
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I am – Hercules!!
* From the “Heroes” panel: Kevin Smith ("Clerks II") will write and direct an episode of the spinoff miniseries “Heroes: Origins” airing in April or May.
* Alex Ross (not Tim Sale) is doing the cover for the “Heroes” graphic novel, which will collect the online comics.
* From the “24” panel: Season seven will begin with Jack Bauer in hot water, facing the U.S. Senate over perceived crimes.
* From the “Galactica” panel: Unbilled Lucy Lawless surprised the crowd to announce her return for two or three episodes of the fourth and final season.
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Is Buffy the Vampire Slayer transforming the comics industry? Publisher’s Weekly has an interesting story here about how “Buffy” mastermind Joss Whedon’s new “Season Eight” series is turning first-time comic-book customers into buyers of non-Buffy comics. An excerpt:
The Buffy series is currently the bestselling title at Rocketship, the Brooklyn, N.Y., comics store, "by a pretty considerable margin," said owner Alex Cox. The new customers it brings in are starting to buy other comics, too, Cox said, especially Joss Whedon's other projects, like the superhero series, Runaways. "We've pulled in extra Runaways sales just by racking it next to Buffy. They're not just coming in for Buffy and leaving. With the death of Captain America, people came in, wanted that one issue, and we'll never see them again."
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This is oldish news, but for those who may not have heard:
Joss Whedon, the mastermind behind “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Firefly,” and many of their attendant spinoffs and sequels, is auctioning off a three-hour dinner with himself to benefit “Equality Now,” which works to prevent – among other things – the stoning of young women. I think this is a cause most of us can get behind. Except perhaps those of us who think womens be thinking too much.
I adore this Joss Whedon character. Like so many of us, he is a giant nerd who can’t stop babbling about “Star Wars” and “The Matrix” and Tarantino and “Batman.” He contributed much to “Speed” and “Toy Story.” He also wrote a perfectly spectacular script for “Alien 4,” about acid-filled extraterrestrials trying to take over this planet, that Fox threw out the window because they were concerned it contained “too many notes.” Or something. Stupid Fox.
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I’ve been a bad bad Hercules. Issue four of Dark Horse’s new “Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” series has been on the stands since Wednesday, but all sorts of last-minute stuff – mounting piles of pilots and Galactica and Jericho and Veronica – kept me out of the comic-book stores until a few hours ago. But I’ve now read and digested the wonderful “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 8.4, which successfully concludes writer/mastermind Joss Whedon’s excellent initial “season-eight” arc.
Here’s what doesn’t happen in 8.4:
* Dawn Summers, 60 feet tall since season’s start, doesn’t shrink. Not an inch.
* We don't meet a thricewise.
* We don’t definitively learn which true love woke Buffy with a big wet one.
* We don’t learn where Rupert Giles is.
* Andrew Wells is not glimpsed, nor is he reunited with skinless fellow nerd of doom Warren Meers.
* A familiar character is not introduced on the final page.
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BEWARE SPOILERS!!
What’s it called?
“The Long Way Home, Part III.”
Who’s responsible?
Script is credited to “Buffy” mastermind Joss Whedon.
What does TV Guide say?
TV Guide is curiously silent on the matter.
The big news?
Renee, the slayer most likely to bone Xander, didn’t quite die last month.
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A long time ago ...
I am – Hercules!!
A few notes on a comic book that came out today titled “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, Part One,” by Joss Whedon. It’s magical, and represents the best $2.99 you’ll spend this month.
BE WARY!! UNINVISOTEXTED SPOILERS LURK ABOUT EVERY COMING PARAGRAPH!! GO BUY AND READ THE COMIC FIRST!! IT’S ON SALE NOW!!
THE COVER. The words “Season Eight” appear in the tiniest type just below the Dark Horse logo. Super-cool. Buffy holds that stake-axe thingie she used to create an army of slayers in 7.22, but I didn’t notice it inside the issue.
PAGES TWO AND THREE. It already looks like “Buffy: The Motion Picture.” Not the Luke Perry teen comedy. Like the Willow/Xander/Giles TV show, but BIG. The start of the $300 million “Buffy” movie you crave in your heart. Our first glimpse of Buffy Summers in years depicts the slayer holding a weapon – but it is not a stake, not a crossbow, not an axe and not the aforementioned stake-axe thingie. It looks like a Love & Rockets ray-gun. There are three teenage girls behind her. It’s beautiful.
PAGE FOUR. Fascinating reference to a third Buffy.
PAGE FIVE. Buffy remains cavalierly ignorant of Spike and Angel’s Roman torments.
PAGES SIX AND SEVEN. Our first glimpse of Slayer Central Command. Again with the bigness. Cooler than The Initiative. Xander Harris runs the place, and displays typically laudable leadership banter.
PAGES 10 & 11. More bigness and swell dialog. And prepare, readers, to be seduced by the slayerettes.
PAGE 12. Oh! Something in the bottom panel! What the fuck is that??
PAGE 14. Sunnydale, Calif., was an inland municipality.
PAGE 17. Buffy and Xander together again, looking a little lonely, a long way from the Sunnydale High School library. The librarian isn’t around, but the funny remains, as do the books.
PAGE 19. Are Dawn and Buffy in a room or a big carport or an amphitheater or what? How do these castles work?
PAGES 20 & 21. MacBeth fans! In the mood for an angsty Scotland monologue? Because we get a great one here.
PAGES 22 & 23. What’s with that old-school Tony Stark/Howard Hughes facial hair on labcoat-clipboard guy?
PAGE 24. Nice visual with the reveal!
PAGE 25. Letters pages?? Oh, they reference “Tales of the Vampires”! Neato!
Whedon and some of the other “Buffy” writers made sort of a dry-run at season eight by authoring these two volumes. They don't focus on Buffy Summers, but they’re all about her universe. And they’re kinda cheap!
Tales of the Slayers
by Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, David Fury, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Amber Benson, et al
Tales of the Vampires
by Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard, Ben Edlund, et al
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