So wait.....

I'm laughing too hard... here.... fuggin' Quantam Leap Comix + beeer....

I feel that you are mocking my buying of Buffy Season Eight.... but your post is too funny for me to care...

I'll simply point out that Buffy Eight is a liittle lame... BUT you cannot play the high road with me.... Mister owner of Teen Titans Comix!!!

Although, I do agree with your general sentiment that TeeVee Comix usually suck ass... Fuggin Boxie suckin' on a radioactive pipe and only the Dagget can save him... it's lame... but is it any lamer than the gazillion Bat-Man posts you've posted?

Great post. Funny funny shit...

No, I'm not making fun of your for the Buffy comics. I bought a bunch, too, and I'm thinking about buy the second trade. If anything, I think the Buffy comics are an example of it being done right.

If might be making fun of you a little bit with the inclusion of the link connected to the words "genre story."

I also take issue with you claiming the original BSG was a strong genre story. It sucked ass!! (Unless you mean strongly a sci-fi tale....)

I wasn't offended. I feel dumb for buying Buffy. It's almost like I'm breaking some comic book geek law... "TV is for TV. Comics are for Comics!! Unless theirs cartoons and films involved..."

TeeVee Comix are hard, because they take so many leaps away from the show, and the reader often wonders where in the world does this fit in? If at all. And if not, why am i bothering to read it? "Mrs. Livingston would never fly to space to fight Raiders from Dimernsion Z on the REAL Courtship of Eddie's father... this is UNPOSSIBLE!!"

Buffy is actually the only show tie in comic I've ever purchased.... I bought a few Star Wars comics back in 78... and I was always baffled by where this would fit in the "Cannon". (A word i threw around a lot as a 6 year old. "Clearly, this story is outside of the cannon... it's utter non-sense. I believe I will put this down, and start constructing a new Lincoln Log house for my army men.")

I was sucked in by the notion that Whedon got many of his old writers back to write the new Buffy comic. And it's pretty good. Although they are almost too giddy in being free of the restraints of television, no budgets... just make it as crazy as they "always intended". Yeah right, I doubt they ever imagined Faith being 50 feet tall when writing the show. Anyway this new found freedom will probably take the comic into far geekier territory, so we'll see how long I keep up with it. As soon as Buffy goes to Space with Mrs. Livingston, I'm done with it.

Actually, that issue would probably rule...

I meant strongly a sci fi tale, not a strong story.

I'm bought into the notion that Whedon is the one who's extending the series into comics, instead of just selling off the license (there's a whole lot of other Buffy comics out there that I never even glanced at). I remember being a little frustrated with the visual storytelling in the first arc (the only issues I bought), but still curious enough about it to continue, just not with the individual issues any more.

Still, it was weirdly embarrassing to buy Buffy comics in the shop. I'm not sure why--I'm already buying stuff in a comic shop! Why is Buffy more embarrassing than X-Men?

It's embarrassing because you lose all your geek street cred. Especially if that's the only comic you buy (which is my case... ) So the Grand Poobahs of Geekdom behind the counter look at you like a poseur or a tourist. And as Pulp would say, everybody hates a tourist.

A recent exchange at the comic shop went down like this, after I spent 20 minutes looking at stuff and buying one lousy TeeVee comic.

"Buffy Comics? Ha! Can I interest you in a Firefly Limited Series..."
"No...no.. just the Buffy.... and uh... hey is that Wash on the cover? Sure I'll take one!!"

Hook line and sucker...

Your theory is sound. The comic shop is one of those places, like a record shop, where you sometimes feel compelled to prove your bona fides while you're up at the counter. I think I also have some childish residual embarrassment over buying a "girl" comic.

You could send your girl to buy 'em for you. Man, that would be a new level of cowardice.

Sometimes I take my girl along to the comic shop to give those sad sacks hope.

Ha ha.

She was our official comic buyer after I moved to Asheville and she was still in O-Town. She's good at it, mostly because she has cool taste: Sandman, old Hulk comics...

Holy shit that Family Affair comic is creepy.... Fuggin' Shel Silverstein dude....

And the Courtship of Eddie's Father...man too funny...

Holy shit that Family Affair comic is creepy

I know! I was a little stunned by that one.

Yeah, that was me... darn log ins...

1) Those Buffy Comics are slick. So many people I know are going to the comic store for the first time buying them.

2) I actually had (have? please tell me I still have it) that issue of Quantum Leap. I have a couple in fact. That one has him leaping into a school teacher in early April 1968, and because he has "swiss cheese brain" he doesn't remember the significance of the date. Then he gets ruhl mad at Al when MLK gets killed.

3) The best TV comic adaption I ever saw was at an "antique" store in NC.


It was an earlier issue though.

I take it all back... that looks like an awesome tv comic! I did buy a Giant Sized Kotter Annual once.

I know people who are compelled to read comics because of the Buffy title, too. Or at least because of Joss's dalliance with the medium.

I don't event understand the joke on that Welcome Back Kotter cover. I probably had some of those, too. I was down with the TV comics when I was a kid.

Cartoons like Hong Kong Phooey don't count... really... do they?

I don't know. If you're trying to figure out the athletic records of your favorite Hanna Barbera stars, do you or do you not take into account the Laff-a-lympics competitions recounted in comic book form? It's a dilemma!

Just think if the Hanna Barbara gang participated in the Tequila-lympics!!!

Thanks for being discreet!

...Oh damn it.