Buffy Season 8 Update

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Buffy Season 8 Update

Today's greatest news: There will be more than just 22 issues of the Buffy Season 8 comic.

“We expected it to sell well, so we overprinted by about 25 percent just to cover ourselves,” Allie said. “But even with the overprinting, the comics sold out everywhere. We’re talking about 100,000 comics, which is lot these days.”

“One day last year I got an email from him with an attachment,” Allie said. “I thought it was his treatment of his new Serenity comic. I opened it and was shocked to see a complete script for Buffy #1. I was walking around the office telling everyone we had Joss Whedon writing Buffy again,” Allie said. “It was a great day.”

They got together to discuss the book and decided to make 22 comics in the series, just like a television show.

“But that number keeps growing as Joss keeps coming up with new stories to tell,” Allie said. “We’re up to about 50, could go a little higher. It’s a very deep story that will go places. People are going to love it.”

Allie said the comic series will initially be called “Season Eight” but there is a subtitle that will be added after issue #6.

“We can’t reveal the subtitle now, it will give too much away,” he said.

Allie said he hopes that Joss will write about half of the Buffy series, with other writers like Brian K. Vaughan filling in arcs.

Joss has written the first five issues of the series and will write issue #10, then issues #16 to #20. Issues #6 through #9 will be written by Vaughan. Drew Goddard, a writer for the show, will write issues #11 through #14. Issue #15 will be a stand-alone story written by an author to be announced.

Allie said even if Whedon does not write the entire series, his influence will be there.

“He writes these manifestos every three months, telling everyone what’s going on, where the series is heading,” he said. “It keeps the writers on track.” Allie explained the process.

“The writers have a certain amount of freedom,” he said. “The writers pitch stories back to Joss, he makes suggestions and they go back and forth with revisions until the story is written.”

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