The mighty Joss Whedon will be making some fan dreams come true at the end of July; the man who has garnered a serious fan following from his TV work on Buffy, Angel and Serenity and an equally impressive run of top-notch comics (including his recent popular return to the Buffyverse in comics form) is auctioning himself for charity. Or more accurately Joss is using Ebay to allow fans to bid for the chance for five of them to have a private dinner with him during the San Diego Comic Con. Monies raised will go to a charity Joss has supported for a long time, Equality Now (the Browncoats – Firefly and Serenity fan groups – have previously raised quite a lot of money for the charity). The auction begins on July 2nd and runs through to July 12th. (link via CBR)
(image from the auction site for dinner with Joss)
In other Joss-related news Dark Horse announced a raft of Joss goodness coming up this winter, with a nice hardback edition of Serenity: Those Left Behind (which bridges the gap between the end of the Firefly series and the film), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel which collects some of the top Buffy comics art from Dark Horse’s archive and there’s also the first collection of a new comics series you may just have heard a little about – Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy: the Long Way Home will be the first graphic novel to collect the new ‘eighth season’ of Buffy which started recently (this collects issues #1 to 5) and where the comics form has allowed Joss to write his stories free of budget considerations, so we get great scenes of Buffy leading a pack of Slayers diving out of a helicopter in the first issue (Richard reviewed the first issue back here on the blog). All three are down for a November release from Dark Horse.
(cover to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the Long Way Home, published by Dark Horse, written by Joss Whedon, with cover art from Jo Chen. I can’t make up my mind if Xander looks more like Nick Fury or Jesse Custer now)
June 27th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Lovely cinematic cover, definitely Jesse Custer, although the Willow I loved looked nothing like that size 0 thing on the left.
And I do think Buffy should be little careful how she plays with that stake/axe. You could take your own guts out very easily while stakin’ the vamps. And no-one thinks a decapitated slayer looks cool.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:00 am
No, you’re right, a good slayer should never lose their head – remember, boys and girls, don’t play with axes at home!
Re: Willow, there is a nice bit in the CBR link where Joss tells of the gorgeous Alyson Hannigan being shown the comic and complaining that she doesn’t look anything like that – then it is pointed out she is looking at Dawn… Still, at least they didn’t go down the other (and far too oft-used) comics route of making all the women have six foot legs and zepplin breasts (and probably Xander into a muscleman) so that’s something.