BUFFY: Season 2 and 3 comics?

Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by ReadyAndWilling, Feb 14, 2012.

  1. ReadyAndWilling

    ReadyAndWilling Fleet Captain

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    hey guys, i really love seasons 2 and 3 of Buffy. the setting of the high school is just so great and all the episodes are worthwhile in their own way. i was just wondering if joss or anyone from his crew ever wrote stories from this era that weren't apart of the tv show? i know there were comics set between season 3 and 4, but i don't know of anything for S2 and S3.
     
  2. saturn5

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    The Buffy magazine did have a comic strip set in that period. The official Buffy comics pretty much stuck with the pre-Sunnydale era
     
  3. Christopher

    Christopher Writer Admiral

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    There were a bunch of Dark Horse comics set during the series, many of which (particularly those by Christopher Golden) were well-received, but they weren't written/overseen by Whedon and are non-canonical. (Also there were plenty of non-canonical prose novels by various authors, also including Golden.)
     
  4. ReadyAndWilling

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    ok, thanks.

    do you know where i could look at a list?
     
  5. PsychoPere

    PsychoPere Vice Admiral Premium Member

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  6. ReadyAndWilling

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    great, thanks. i'm reading through the list now. any one in particular you can recommend? seems like the show had so much potential in S2-S3.
     
  7. PsychoPere

    PsychoPere Vice Admiral Premium Member

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    The only ones that I've read were collected in Ombius Volume 1, all of which I thought were pretty good. "The Origin" is especially fun, as it was intended to more accurately reflect Joss's original movie script than the filmed movie did*. "Slayer, Interrupted" calls back to season 6's "Normal Again," by featuring Buffy in a mental asylum shortly before the move from LA to Sunnydale. "All's Fair" was a fun Spike and Drusilla story at the 1933 World's Fair.

    (* Joss has even referred to this one as being "pretty much" canon.)
     
  8. Stevil2001

    Stevil2001 Vice Admiral Admiral

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    The Omnibus books, which collect the whole run of comics chronologically, are pretty much the way to go. If you get Volumes 3 and 4, you'll have all the comics set during Season Three.