Cute Overload - Buffy Season 8 #20
Oh NOES! Buffy has gone back to Season 1! And to reflect the relatively angst-free atmosphere of the early episodes, she's an adorable cartoon character! And Joyce is alive and also cartoony! And Dawn is a pre-teen instead of a key! THIS IS AWESOME.
Buffy also nicely retcons the whole Willow/Xander affair...awk!waaard. This whole issue is filled with squeeable moments, why can't they make a All Ages title like this?PS: This is all based on the pitched but never sold Buffy cartoon series; here's the pilot with many original cast voices! Cept it's not very good...still, cute, right?
Crazy batman after the jump...
Clearest Example of Batman's Insanity - Batman #683
We all know Batman has a lot of baggage surrounding the Robins. Here, Batman is being mind-raped by some Darkseid minions, who are making him quickly relive some of his most traumatic momments. But in this garbled memory, Tim Drake seems to be emerging, in full costume, FROM JASON TODD'S SMOKING REMAINS.Most Painful Panel - Thunderbolts #127
Ai yee yee yee! Songbird juuuust stops Bullseye's sai from nailing her in the eyeball by stopping it....with her palm. This kind of injury is pretty tame by comic standards, but that red splash in the background and Songbird's horrified expression really bring the sting home.
2 comments:
Predictably, I loved the Animated Buffy episode... which also means I've a couple of quibbles.
Mainly, Buffy mentions later in the issue that she's got a freshman year body, which would be in keeping with Dawn being pre-teen/pre-key... but the Summers family didn't transfer to Sunnydale until the middle of Buffy's sophomore year. Nitpicking, I know, but you should've heard me watching Angel S5 last night!
I thought she was referring to her freshman year of *slaying*...isn't the full quote something like, I've got senior skills with a freshman body? But is season 1 eve her first year of slaying? I'm not sure how the movie works into the cannon...
Also I forgot to mention in the post how hilariously goofy Xander looks in cartoon form. Not a very flattering rendition, especially considering how he usually looks in Season 8, which is like, the paragonical ideal of all Xanders.
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