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Chambliss Slays with Dark Horse's "Buffy Season 9"

More than eight years after its final episode aired on television, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spinoff series "Angel" continue to inspire a large, passionate fan base. In 2007, series creator Joss Whedon and Dark Horse Comics launched a canonical continuation of the series in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8," a forty-issue series that concluded in January 2011. In September, Buffy returns for "Season 9," this time co-written by Whedon and Andrew Chambliss, with "Season 8" artist Georges Jeanty returning for the new series. Beyond that, Dark Horse is also publishing "Angel & Faith," set in the same universe and beginning in August.

Both "Buffy Season 9" and "Angel & Faith" spin directly out of the events of "Buffy Season 8," which saw Buffy, Xander, Willow and Dawn confronting a mysterious, masked villain calling himself Twilight, as Giles and Faith worked behind the scenes to discover and undermine the Big Bad's plans. Twilight was ultimately revealed as Angel, who had discovered a new, peaceful universe and set events in motions that would allow him and Buffy to live there happily ever after.

Things are never so simple, however, and Buffy returned to our plane of existence to stave off a demon invasion. The sentient universe possessed Angel, leading to a showdown between the former lovers in which Giles was killed and a mystical seed -- the key to all magic in the universe -- was destroyed. Free of Twilight's influence, Angel was left catatonic and Buffy struggled to pick up the pieces of her life by starting anew in San Francisco.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8" ended with Buffy in a lonely place, as her decision to save the world by banishing magic from this plane of existence has alienated her friends and turned the army of former Slayers against her. Add to this the death of Giles at the hands of Twilight-possessed Angel and it would seem Buffy has few friends left. But, Chambliss told CBR News, things are not all bleak in the new series. "Buffy starts the season in a better place than where we left her at the end of 'Season 8,'" the writer said. "She's settled into her life in San Francisco, moved off Xander and Dawn's couch and is finally entertaining the notion of a life that doesn't involve facing the complete destruction of the world. It's the first time she's actually thinking about her future because, guess what, she didn't die saving civilization.

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Opinions differ greatly around the phenomenon known because the Twilight Saga. In sharing mine, I will dwell specifically around the books. As for the Twilight movies, let’s just concur which they are an \”attempt\” to deliver Stephenie Meyer’s visions to life. enjoy ’em or hate ’em, they are what they are. If ticket income are any indication, they appear to possess conglomeration appeal, vampire purists notwithstanding.

As for me, I liked the very first two films and look forward to the subsequent two. But, I liked them for what I anticipated them to be. Third-party interpretations, compressed into abbreviated Hollywood productions, subtle and poignant particulars sometimes sidestepped for the sake of box business office glory. quest accomplished.

Having never noticed of Twilight or having seen the motion picture when I picked in the book, I entered the Forks earth with an open views and no preconceived notions. I simply thought I was about to read nevertheless a different vampire story – complete with fangs, blood in addition a new author’s twist on a few of your respective legendary features we’ve come to expect.

What I got, under four chapters in, was a tongue-in-cheek surprise. instead of my anticipated tale of darkish creatures preying on our fears, i arrived across myself knee-deep in some kind of teenage, social misfit story told in the very first person. A women teenager. I considered setting the book besides further than once. Not my usual fare.

Fortunately, my curiosity kept me reading. Like thousands of other people around the globe, I was sucked to the huge school drama of Bella Swan, a clumsy outcast finding her first enjoy in the type of your respective one man no one else could acquire. Edward Cullen was the wonderful boy-idol the ladies found irresistibly different and secretly desirable. His unobtainable position and preliminary revulsion of Bella’s presence was adequate to keep me reading. Like everybody else, I desired to know why.

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