Discussion of 8.10 "Anywhere But Here" - Released 01/02/08 (Dark Horse)

Yeah i got 2 variants, one i was upset about, the other was cool. But think of it this way, since variants arn't really sold themselves, they may end up being worth money in the end.
 
Can chime in now.

Ok so, breaking Buffy and Willow apart felt a little too easy to me. They've been keeping some of their feelings hidden but it's not like there's been major backstabbing. Best friends since high school, you'd think they could shrug it off. It's understandable that Willow would want to keep Kennedy for herself, away from danger Buffy. She was possessive over Tara at first even without a prior lost love as a consequence of Buffy time.

I felt the same way about the Buffy/Giles divide. I think the old Buffy and Giles would talk things through properly and work out their problems. After all they've been through a simple misunderstanding has come between them and neither party are rushing to fix things. It's interesting anyway, these cracks in the team, even though it was a bit rushed.

The war of magic seems like the perfect thing to put Buffy and Willow on opposite sides. Buffy would want to restore the world to normal, rid it of demons and dark magic, but Willow will certainly not want to lose her powers and may try to reason that magic can also do a lot of good. It could come to blows. We saw a snapshot of the future: a tearful, broken Buffy on the floor as a result of "Betrayal. The closest, the most unexpected." The closest...

Dawn's revelation that she cheated on Kenny does a lot to explain her behavior so far this season, her reluctance to detail what happened until now.

This month's demon was dumb - I don't get it! It's a big mouth with arms and wings and four human-like faces in squares.


Funny lines:

Willow: So the mysterious benefactor bankrolling the slayer army...

Buffy: It's all insured! It's a victimless crime! And we totally found a Watteau the Nazis hid and sent it to the Tate! That happens in a minute! It's only money...
 
So Kenny made Dawn big because she cheated on him. Isn't that kinda like a Vengeance Demon? Is that what a thricewise is?
 
VisionGuy said:
So Kenny made Dawn big because she cheated on him. Isn't that kinda like a Vengeance Demon? Is that what a thricewise is?
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I'm guessing the Vengeance-ey part of what he did to Dawn was just an abuse of power, so i doubt it
 
omg how awesome was this issue !!!!!!!!!!
i Properly felt at home again with the gang for the first with the comics.
and i LOVED the art so much, i never really liked the others artists that much at all to be honest, i couldnt picture the actors saying the words or hear there voices in my head with the other issues, but with this one it just worked for me. can not wait for 11 !
 
yeah what WAS up with the little human face squares on the demon... big "huh" there. It just looked funny. Like... T.V. screens stapled to a demon.
 
Just when you think this series can't get any better, it does eh?

What? Nobody's going to mention naked Willow and the snake woman? Cause I saw that, and went "What the...".
 
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LOL! Yeah me too! I wonder what the back story is there?
nerd4hire said:
Just when you think this series can't get any better, it does eh?

What? Nobody's going to mention naked Willow and the snake woman? Cause I saw that, and went "What the...".
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Now seeing that on T.v.!!!! would have rocked. :whistle:
 
Watcher1986 said:
It could come to blows. We saw a snapshot of the future: a tearful, broken Buffy on the floor as a result of "Betrayal. The closest, the most unexpected." The closest...
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So Buffy is now at odds with everyone close to her except Xander.

Does that mean anything, I wonder. Will he be the betrayer?
 
I think it may be will because of what watcher1986 said;
The war of magic seems like the perfect thing to put Buffy and Willow on opposite sides. Buffy would want to restore the world to normal, rid it of demons and dark magic, but Willow will certainly not want to lose her powers and may try to reason that magic can also do a lot of good. It could come to blows. We saw a snapshot of the future: a tearful, broken Buffy on the floor as a result of "Betrayal. The closest, the most unexpected." The closest...

Dawn's revelation that she cheated on Kenny does a lot to explain her behavior so far this season, her reluctance to detail what happened until now.
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Buffy's behaviour is rather hypocritical and it may isolate people around her....
 
I think that's what we were lead to believe, yeah. After hearing of the act of betrayal, Buffy even accuses Willow - "Is it you?" - while Willow is anxious to get out of there quickly, saying the demon is playing with them. But nothing is ever predictable in Buffy so we'll probably be guessing for months and still be surprised when we find out how Buffy gets beat up and heartbroken. Yeah, that broken red egg/orb thing over one of the doors looks significant.

"If things get dicey, I get slay-ey." 🙂
 
Tina Fey was in one funny panel. A Willow fantasy.

Lyri said:
Robin's character, i was a little disappointed. i thought the whole idea was that the competition winner was supposed to have some huge part in this comic. not be someone's 'minder'. i was expecting her to be some sort of Slayer or something. maybe she'll show up later and have a bigger part.
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In the letter page, the real Robin's husband says she has schizophrenia, she's in and out of coherence. It makes sense that her character is in these unstable realities with real and not real events all mixed up. Willow comments that she didn't volunteer for it - she was chosen. Also in the letter, her husband says she can relate to characters like Drusilla and River. In the comic, Robin says something that doesn't seem to make sense: "The important thing is that you rescue the prince." It's all tailored to the contest winner.
 
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I dont' get what Willow meant though about bringing Buffy back is what ended her relationship to Tara. I don't have the issue yet so I went off wikipedia. Also I would think the betrayer would be Xander, cause I mean technically speaking Willow already betrayed Buffy when she went evil and Xander has been the most loyal to Buffy aside from the time they all kicked her out the house. And Buffy robbing a bank I could totally see that, because power can corrupt and we've seen Joss do that with Faith and Joss' whole point of Faith is this could easily be Buffy and I mean now Buffy has all of these girls with power to look after and she's the strongest and most experienced of them all and let's not forget she has a superiority complex and they need the money. So I could see it happening, which makes me wonder are the Twillight really the bad guys or is it Buffy and her gang. Cause remember the Twillight said Buffy and her slayers will wipe out all demons and because they have no more demons to fight the demon in them will look at humans and go after them, which brings up the point that they brought up in season five but never really went back to, how much of the slayer is demon and how much of it is human and if the slayer really taps into that demon aspect of her how powerful could she get?
 
Willow betrayed Buffy at the end of Season 6 by trying to kill her best friend. It migh be the all the scoobs who turn on Buffy.
 
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