Buffy : Season 8

Georges Jeanty has been bestowed the honor of getting to draw everyone’s favorite vampire slayer, Buffy Summers for Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Season Eight" monthly series from Dark Horse. The Comic Book Guide reunited with Jeanty to catch up with him on what’s been going on with our favorite Slayer and his experiences while working on the book.

QUESTION: Have you been vacationing during your four month break from Buffy pencilling duties?

Vacation? What’s that? I think I might have heard about something like that years ago but I never believed it was real. Truth is I did take off a week and did a show in London. It was great, it was the first time I’d ever been in London and I saw it like a native. I’m a huge Doctor Who fan, so to see some of the locations and what not was great! That and they also had the Doctor Who Exhibit while I was there. It was nice. In truth I didn’t take off any more time than that before I was on to the issues after the Fray arc. The plan was to take off these 4 issues and then not have another break before the big ending. So let’s all just keep our fingers crossed that it works out that way!

QUESTION: How have you found the response to Buffy Season Eight to be?

This is a tricky question, because so many people have had so many opinions regarding Season 8. I don’t think, when it first came out that anyone knew what to make of Season 8. Some people thought those first 4 issues were the whole season. Others felt that every issue was like an episode so there would be 24 issues. I say this just to set up what a big ball of confusion Buffy was when she first hit the stands, and in spite of this, I feel that the main response people have had has been… grateful.

Everyone who has picked up and enjoyed the book have always commented that they were just grateful to see these characters that they love so much coming back. I don’t know anyone who wanted Buffy to end after season 7. I think they understood that everyone related to the show was tired and wanted to move on, but these characters had become part of peoples lives, or had gotten them through something they were going through at the time. I’ve often said that the worst thing you could do to someone , with regards to a TV or Movie or Novel, is to make people care. Once you’ve done that the audience has a person interest. And when that happens, people expect these characters to live on forever. I can understand it because I’ve felt that way about certain characters in media. So for Buffy to come back, I think people were just grateful to have her in their lives again.

Georges JeantyQUESTION: Aside from Buffy and Satsu in bed [left], have there been any other momemnts in the series that have shocked you?

Well that one certainly was a shocker. I was shocked to hear how the whole Twilight thing works itself out... There are a couple things coming up that may seem shocking but I think people are gonna accept it quite easily. I was shocked to see Warren come back. I knew Amy was lurking around somewhere, but Warren was a shocker. The rest has just been good old fashion Joss at his best. I think we all read Buffy because we really like how Joss tells a story. Buffy is his baby and she couldn’t be in more capable hands!

QUESTION: Have you followed IDW’s Angel After the Fall series at all? What has been your impression so far?

I have been following the Angel books. I was really excited about it coming out because as a Buffy fan I’m also an Angel fan, and since I have nothing to do with the book I could read it as it came out. While I love Buffy, I never get to enjoy it as a reader because when I get it, it’s in script form and as a job I tend to reread it several times to get the sequential illustration down. So once it’s in comic book at your local store I’m so close to it that I can’t sit back and read it objectively. I can with Angel. While I thought the direction the stories were going in were interesting, I’ve been a little confused with the story telling. I think everyone involved knows what they’re doing, it just doesn’t come together as smooth as I’d like, but like any Angel fan I keep reading because I love the characters.

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