Scott Allie Update

[goldenboy]

http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/buffy/editor.php
(you can scroll down and check out Buffy cover #6)

The last time I wrote something for this space, the first issue was just off to the printer, with the highest orders we'd had for a single-issue comic in years. When the book came out, it sold out overnight, and we've since gone back to print twice on issue one. Issue two came out, with an even higher print run, and that issue's gone back to press. Good times at Dark Horse.

Issue three is at the printer as we speak, due out in just a couple weeks, in early May. It reintroduces yet another major character, and this one, I think will be a bigger surprise than Amy was at the end of issue one. Andy Owens and Dave Stewart are currently putting the finishing touches on issue four, and Paul Lee has just finished pencilling #5. Just an hour ago I got Jo Chen's final cover art for Buffy #7, after getting the final draft of that script a couple days ago from Brian K. Vaughan...


...The first arc of Season Eight is wrapping up fairly soon. Keep your letters coming to let us know what you think. We're having a blast here. Brian K. Vaughan's scripts are fantastic--he's captured Faith's voice brilliantly, with all the bravado and balls of that great Boston girl. And don't worry--he's getting his chance to write Buffy herself too. Just because Faith blotted out the logo doesn't mean she's dominating all twenty-two pages of each issue. Buffy has her issues to work out too.

 

[nerd4hire]

Love that cover for the beginning of the Faith arc. I'm really hyped for that one. In a letter to the editor Scott Allie suggested

Spoiler

Faith is in England

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[Karl]

I REALLY dig that cover.🙂 A question though, has the cover for #5 been released?

 

[Lyri]

that cover freaking rocks!!

 

[Karl]

that cover freaking rocks!!

I know, it really is awesome.

 

[nerd4hire]

I REALLY dig that cover.🙂 A question though, has the cover for #5 been released?

I was wondering about that too. # 3 is the Willow one, and # 4 is giant Dawn. What's # 5? It's supposed to be a one-shot by Jeph Loeb, or someone like that isn't it?

 

[Lyri]

yeah, N4H, it's the stand alone. any word yet on what that's gonna deal with?

 

[goldenboy]

I was wondering about that too. # 3 is the Willow one, and # 4 is giant Dawn. What's # 5? It's supposed to be a one-shot by Jeph Loeb, or someone like that isn't it?

Guest artist Paul Lee was doing the interior pencils for #5. Not sure that Jo Chen is actually doing that cover. Maybe it's Lee...

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Oh, wait. Joss did write #5...I think? The next standalone after that is #15 apparently.

iF: How many issues will Joss be writing initially and is it a full arc, or just part of a larger arc?

ALLIE: He's writing a four-issue arc, then a single issue story.

http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=21229