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Buffy ending with 4-issue Buffy/Angel/Fray crossover Buffy: Season 12: The Reckoning

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Joss Whedon and acclaimed Angel & Faith: Season 9/Buffy: Seasons 10-11 writer Christos Gage are co-writing it. The Bufffyverse as we know it is probably ending for good due to the franchise's acquisition by Disney. Unless they plan to make in-universe spin-offs. *shrugs* This whole "four issues to wrap this mother up" thing is exactly what happened to Dark Horse's Star Wars comics when Disney acquired that franchise.

Here's the blurb:
Following the world-altering finale of Season 11, Buffy and the Scoobies have had a laid-back year in the saving-the-world department. But as they've learned over their years of fighting the forces of darkness and thwarting many an apocalypse, nothing stays quiet for long. When Dawn and Xander's housewarming party is crashed by some familiar faces with news of an amassing force that must be reckoned with—Wolfram & Hart, a legion of demons, and Harth, a vampire from the future—Buffy finds herself in a time warp that could alter the fate of the world and could spell the end for Buffy, her friends, and the Slayers, forever.

This action-packed miniseries reunites the Buffyverse with the return of Angel, Faith, Illyria, and Fray, the Slayer from the future!
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Source: https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/2662/joss-whedon-and-christos-gage-bring-reckoning-buff

Dark Horse officially announced on Twitter that this is indeed the final season.
 
What? Aquired by Disney? When and how did THAT happen?
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20th Century Fox owns Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel/Fray, Firefly, Alien/Prometheus, Planet of the Apes, The X-Files/Millennium/The Lone Gunmen, Predator, etc. When Disney bought them out, they became the proud owners of a f--- ton of beloved genre franchises.
 
Markonian said:
Oh, Buffy the Vampire Princess in a reboot! :rommie:
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I wonder if this means we're getting a reboot film or TV series, a Next Gen/DS9-style in-universe spin-off (that probably ignores the canon Dark Horse/IDW comics) or just Disney's own expanded universe tie-ins. This move seems to indicate that Disney has their own plans for the franchise, but for the life of me I can't figure out which route they plan to go here.
 
OCD Geek said:
This move seems to indicate that Disney has their own plans for the franchise, but for the life of me I can't figure out which route they plan to go here.
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Disney doesn't have any plans yet, because they don't actually own any FOX IP yet. The deal hasn't received government approval. Just as Marvel head Kevin Feige has said that he has no intention of making any plans for the X-Men or Fantastic Four until such time as they are actually his to play with, nobody at Disney will be making plans for Buffy until they actually own the property.
 
Turtletrekker said:
Disney doesn't have any plans yet, because they don't actually own any FOX IP yet. The deal hasn't received government approval. Just as Marvel head Kevin Feige has said that he has no intention of making any plans for the X-Men or Fantastic Four until such time as they are actually his to play with, nobody at Disney will be making plans for Buffy until they actually own the property.
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The last issue comes out in September. I'm sure Disney will know whether the deal's approved or not by then.
 
OCD Geek said:
Damn. That must be stressful for everyone working on Fox projects. And everyone at Dark Horse, where seemingly half their comics are Fox IP tie-ins.
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Why would what is still a hypothetical change in the status quo be causing FOX executives or anyone else stress?

Whatever is motivating this decision to end the Buffyverse comics publications has nothing to do with the potential acquisition of FOX-owned IPs by the Walt Disney Company.
 
Yeah, they probably just decided it was time to end it. I think the comics have been going on almost as long as the show did at this point. Either that or the sales have just finally dipped low enough it isn't worth it any more.
 
I don't like what he did with characters in the comics, so I abandoned them. Reading up online, I see it just continued. And with no budget or apparent restraints, he just went wild; it didn't look or feel right.

While I'm glad it's over, it came with a price: Disney. Now a new superior form of crap will be forth coming.
 
^ I'll repeat what I said above: whatever is motivating the decision to end the Buffyverse comics has nothing whatsoever to do with the still-as-yet-unapproved potential acquisition of FOX-owned IPs by Disney.
 
I couldn't imagine what you could possibly do with the Buffy franchise besides as they have been doing continuing the story in comics.

Spinoff in same universe? After the way both series ended, the world doesn't have a facade of normality anymore and you'd have to have major exposition drops explaining the way everything is to new audiences.

Reboot? The quality of the series was so dependent on individual performances by the main characters and Joss Wheadon's very specific sense of humor, and NOT on the premise, it'd be hard for it to be any good. I suppose somebody with a completely different vision for the series could tell a completely different story about a teenage girl with superpowers who fights vampires, and maybe it could be good. But if somebody else has that great an idea they might as well make their own show about a vampire hunter.
 
I don't think Disney has any plans for a reboot, continuation, or spinoff of any of the Fox TV shows. I think al or most of them will simply be place on their upcoming streaming service.

And as much as I'de like more Buffy, Joss is the only thing that is irreplaceable. The cast, I believe, could easily be replaced.
 
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