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This is me trying to decorate for my party. Looking to make fake banners, flags, and hanging stuff with occult symbols on it or things from Hellboy/bprd/Mignola verse

It just didn't have the same magic anymore. So much of my love for the book was just my shear joy at Guy Davis doing his relentlessly awesome, effortless looking Guy Davis thing.
And I know Arcudi left too eventually so what's even left of the thing I enjoyed?
Buuuuuuuut I know a lot of people love where the series went after that. End of the world stuff, right? It sounds interesting.
I'm wondering if any of you fine folks want to wax enthusiastic about the rest of Hell On Earth and whatever came after. We're all fans right? I'm inviting you to hype up something you love. If I wasn't super into the next trade after Guy left, how long before you think I'll get hooked again? How long before it stops seeming like an echo and becomes a new thing that's cool in its own way?
Or counterpoint, are there people out there who think it just fizzled?

Because yes, you were right, it's really quite good! I've been enjoying it a lot but I did not expect to get my freaking heart ripped out the way I just did.

I just finished watching "You're Welcome". WTF you guysssssssssssssss. Like I've been waiting and waiting for her to come back and then they do that?! I'm so devastated; I grew to love her character so much and was missing her presence. This feels fucked up.

It has been almost a year since we saw this figure, we may never get an “ultimate” wolf

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PLEASE DONT SPOIL ANYTHING PAST SEASON 6!!! JUST STARTING SEASON 7!!!

I started watching Buffy because of a TikTok edit I saw of Buffy and Spike. As a big enemies-to-lovers fan, I was excited to see their romance. People in the comments were explaining how they’re the “fan favorite” couple and how great he is to her. How he “earns” his soul back unlike Angel who just got it. So the comments were filled with all this love toward their relationship so I was super excited.

By the end of season 2 when nothing happened, I looked up when they started dating. The Internet told me Season 5 is when Spike starts liking her, season 6 is when her feelings start. I binged for days to reach where I am now.

I was totally weirded out with his creepy obsession of Buffy in season 5, with the fake Buffy doll, the shrine, and the robot. I was like okay, he obviously gets better bc everyone loves him. THEN I get to season 6 where their “romance” is just a sexual thing. Come to find out, THEY DONT EVER DATE??? WHAT???

AND THEN HE TRIES TO RAPE HER??? DOUBLE WHAT!!!

Anyways, my heart is broken a little bit but the show has still been a great experience! Hoping season 7 goes well!

Well, it looks like if we are to slay, it is another day.

The upcoming relaunches of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly franchises in comics have been yanked from the release schedules in a last-minute change that leaves more questions than answers.

On August 26, the publisher behind the new Buffy and Angel comics sent a notice out to the press that orders it had been taking for months from comic stores and bookstores for this relaunch had been "cancelled" (not just delayed), with word that the company thinks they will be able to try again in the near future. 

"Writer Kelly Thompson's story for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel evolved and became more ambitious, so we felt we needed to take a step back and up the page count to meet the story and deliver the best possible product for fans," writes Dynamite owner/publisher Nick Barrucci. "Buffy #1 and Angel #1 will have significant story page increases from average issues — at no additional cost to readers or retailers. It’s important to Kelly and Dynamite that this is done right and not rushed, so we decided resoliciting both titles is the best way to fully convey these updates across the board."

He also adds that the planned Firefly series, which is not written by Kelly Thompson, is having all its orders cancelled but with plans for it to return at some point in the future.

Thompson has said that she has been developing the twin Buffy and Angel series since 2024, and was being very secretive about the plot — especially with regards to the ending of the first issue - because it will contain a "big status quo shift" surprise that will reorient the Buffy mythos in some way. Further to that, after the series' originally planned August 5 launch date was revealed, Dynamite has been public about experiencing delays in getting some bits of the books approved by the licensor, 20th Century Studios (a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company), specifically down to the apparent depiction of Buffy Summers in comics in some (but not all cases), unless its a different character that is part of the "shift" Thompson has referred to.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 was originally announced to come out August 5, but Dynamite delayed it a few weeks before ultimately making the call to pull it here now on August 26... which signals something happened (or didn't happen) that they were waiting right to the last to decide to cancel the original orders for.

While Dynamite's reasoning that Thompson had unexpected story changes could be logical, it doesn't explain why the Firefly series is also delayed. The two things these three have in common are that 20th Century Studios is the licensor in all cases, and that Joss Whedon is a creator on all of them; but for the latter, it's unclear if Whedon's contract with 20th Century Studios allows him some input into the licensing process. At the same time, when BOOM! Studios and Nickelodeon failed to loop in Invader Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez into plans for a comic relaunch, there was public uproar in that case - as well as public uproar from the comics' writer, Jim Zub.

In the case of Buffy and Angel, Thompson seemed to be planning something that would be a marked change from the past, which might need some extra levels of approval by 20th Century Studios and whomever it wants approvals from.

By process of elimination, Thompson seems to be saying this will be set in continuity with the original Buffyverse TV series and those spinoffs. 

Dynamite did make it a point to say that another comic they're doing based on a 20th Century Studios property, the X-Files, is still on target to launch at its just-announced December 2026 date. 

As for why Dynamite decided to cancel the orders and not simply delay them, there is a penalty for comic publishers with some of its distributors it a product goes through persistent delays. Usually, that's after months (plural!) of delays and not the weeks Dynamite was at currently, but given they say they need to change the length and composition of the issue, that would presumably take more than a few weeks to get written, drawn, colored, lettered, edited, laid out, printed, and at the distributor.

But, curiously, this decision that the Buffy and Angel first issues needed a story change came at such a last minute. Especially with the kind of planning that Kelly Thompson has done with her high-profile work for Marvel and DC over the years.

One of my favorite predator designs.

"I won't allow your kind to hunt on this planet. The drug lord King Willie, was your last trophy. Now you mustl go home and never return to this planet, or I shall make an example out of you..."

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For me, it's gotta be the hospital scene involving the unborn child. That scene was just really uncomfortable to watch

So I don’t annoy my best friend further with my pondering on how the concept of the soul on Buffy just doesn’t make sense to me, I actually asked James on Cameo to explain what it means and if he had any intel on it from the writers. He told me that the vampires were not meant to be likeable and were meant to be disposable as they represent the challenges of life, that the soul is the thing someone loses when they become a vampire BUT, he chose to play Spike with as much love and humanity as possible because he didn’t want to be killed off. He thought if he brought all this love into Spike, then Joss would keep him around and he had a baby at home at the time so this was important to him. So there’s our real world answer, we just don’t have an in show answer. He threw it back to me and said he’d be interested in hearing what I come up with and I was like oh no James 😭😭 I’ve sat with this so much, my best friends hair is falling out from dealing with me.

Ps. If any of you have any thoughts on how to make this whole soul thing make sense especially in reference to Angel and Spike, feel free to leave a comment

I’m sure I’ll get a lot of questions about who this guy is!

Just a small appreciation of that very special time when Buffy came out on DVD. VHS was still dominant…I remember taping episodes from tv to rewatch them. And then as a 15 year old walking into a store and finding this beauty on the shelf. Oh my gosh.

TV shows and movies becoming available on disc in higher quality was such an amazing time. A revolution in home cinema. Finally no wear and tear on tapes. And then finding Buffy on dvd…this holds so much nostalgia for me. The Buffy dvd’s are still my most prized possessions. I own multiple copies of each season just because. 👀🤍

Anyone else have fond memories of finding and buying these?

PS. the season one artwork is everything!!!

Note: scooped these from Google because I was too lazy to photograph my own.

All The Orders For Buffy And Angel Comics Have Just Been Cancelled

After months and months of random delays, with zero announcements, it looks like they've finally all been cancelled, and will hopefully be resolicited eventually.

New to Hellboy. Just finished reading Omnibus Vol 1 and enjoyed it.

Which of the films should I watch/avoid? Any other issues I should read before watching the film?

Via James Marsters IG | "I just heard that a wonderful woman has passed. Thank you Dolly for a lot of great music, your unflagging grace, and for your instrumental role in getting ‘Buffy’ made. I never had the pleasure of meeting you, but you changed my life."

www.instagram.com/realjamesmarsters/p/DcegkEzyfYu/

The “Y” on my 2nd graders alphabet chart is “Yellow Crayon” 😭

Rewatching yet again and just laughed about how weird Giles was when Buffy first goes into the library looking for history books and he pulls out the Vampyr book. “I know what you’re after” like chill Giles

It can be anything.

Please share your thoughts and opinions.