Q&A with Scott Allie (NY Times article)

[VisionGirl]

And speaking of which, season 8's volume 8 The Last Gleaming is #1 on the NY Times Paperback Graphic Books list.

June 24, 2011, 12:42 pm
Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Bounty of Buffy
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
There's only one new book on our lists this week and that honor goes to Volume 8 of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which lands at No. 1 on our softcover list this week. The series, published by Dark Horse Comics, was presented as "Season Eight," a look at the adventures of Buffy and her friends as if the television series had continued. The first issue of the series had orders of more than 110,000 copies. The series also made some news when Buffy had a brief affair with a fellow (female) slayer. "Season Eight" lasted 40 issues. The concluding storyline, issues No. 36 through 40, is collected in Volume 8. All of issue No. 36 is available on the Dark Horse site.

In honor of the conclusion of the series, and its appearance on our softcover list, Scott Allie, the co-editor of "Buffy," with Sierra Hahn, answered some questions by e-mail.

Read the whole article here: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/graphic-books-best-sellers-a-bounty-of-buffy/

Not a lot of new info here. I think this has been said by Allie or Whedon before, but it's clarified: "The world was changed by Season 8, and those changes to the world are consistent from one series to the next, and some secondary characters will have similar roles in the two titles. Also, there will be spinoffs, miniseries featuring familiar characters from both TV shows, and those will connect the two main series."

Does anybody remember which characters have been confirmed to have spinoffs?

 

[Hale Caesar]

IIRC, Willow was getting a one-shot

 

[Angelic Slayer]

Neat article, like you said most of it was "old" news but it was nice to hear it confirmed again. I don't recall hearing about any spinoffs yet (other than the Angel/Faith series) but the idea of a Willow one certainly catches my attention. After the events of Season 8 her character is going to have a lot of baggage to deal with, and that'd be a great way to tell that story.

 

[wickedtiger86]

I didn't know that there were going to be 25 of each. For some reason I was thinking that the Angel and Faith set was going to be like another 8 issue type of thing.

I'm glad there will be more though. I've always liked Faith and it's great for there to be a focus on her and I was always pretty interested in seeing her and Angel interact.