Buffy Season 8 Motion Comic

Buffy's Back (Sort Of)

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)

After “Buffy” called it quits after seven seasons in 2003, Joss did the only sensible thing: he made a comic book series and simply called it “Buffy: Season Eight.” It’s run for 30 issues now, with a planned limit to the current story at issue 40 or so. At that point, the series will continue but with a new story arc under the apt name “Buffy: Season Nine.” The title itself is a perfect schizophrenic storm of non-creativity and descriptive brilliance. While Joss certainly could have given the series a more original title, it’s impossible to discount just how perfectly descriptive it is to call the sequences “Season Eight,” “Season Nine,” etc. The series has been successful enough to spawn a similar series following the events of the series finale of “Angel,” entitled “Angel: After the Fall.”

The actual news here is that “Buffy: Season Eight” is now being turned into a motion comic, a la Watchmen and the Joss Whedon X-Men comic on which we reported last week. There’s no actual news on when it will be released, but they’ve put out a casting call for voice actors. SciFi Wire has the entire casting call here, but here’s some highlights: they need voices for Faith, Kennedy and Principal Wood.

Send in your demo tapes, Pajibans! This could be our chance to get someone in prime position to pitch Joss the concept of Pajiba: The Movie.

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Can they make a motion comic of Willow seducing me while she undresses? Cuz that would be rad.

Posted by: Snath at November 17, 2009 9:25 AM

I haven't really been enjoying the comic for a while now. The last issue picked up a bit but for the most part it feels very off for me. Plus Joss Whedon said somewhere that if they ever did get the go ahead for a film all this would no longer be canon, and that was a bit annoying.

I take my Buffy way too seriously.

Posted by: Carrie at November 17, 2009 9:30 AM

Wait...how do we know that the Pajiban voices are appropriate? I mean, if they were casting boobs, then I can't think of a finer place to fish for sweater carnivals. But only a few of us have revealed our real voices, and fewer in a non-singing-about-boobs context.

Although I would pay good money to see an audition tape from Skitz.

Posted by: Undead Abomination #768921 (formerly Vermillion) at November 17, 2009 9:35 AM

I've sort of revealed my own voice, through videos of my kids on Facebook. But I generally don't like to, since I sound like a prepubescent girl.

Posted by: Snath at November 17, 2009 9:37 AM

I've sort of revealed my own voice, through videos of my kids on Facebook. But I generally don't like to, since I sound like a prepubescent girl.

Well, this is Buffy here. I would think that would be a plus.

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Boobs.

Posted by: Undead Abomination #768921 (formerly Vermillion) at November 17, 2009 9:44 AM

Snath: Willow can't undress for you. She's already nekkid. That's body paint up there, not fabric, except at the elbows and buttcrack.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 17, 2009 9:51 AM

Fap

Posted by: Fappy McFapperson at November 17, 2009 9:58 AM

Snath: You and me both. I cringe visibly whenever I hear myself. One of the many reasons I will never watch anything I'm in.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at November 17, 2009 10:04 AM

Is this an actual call for voice actor submissions or a fake one like the Futurama call a few months back? I don't want to get my limited hopes up to high that there is any chance these jobs would go to someone not already well established in the voice over community, in particular those already connected to the production company.

Who am I kidding? I would never be crazy enough to submit to a Buffy project. I'd be eviscerated by the fans for not sounding exactly like the original actors on the series or for not sounding like their imagined perception of the character from reading a comic book. I'll just slowly catch up on Buffy (not much changed since Season 2, no?) and possibly be caught up enough to invest some time in the motion comic when that comes to fruition.

Posted by: Robert at November 17, 2009 10:08 AM

I have become interested once again. I've been going through the series from scratch with my former roommate and my wife, showing them the start of the great Whedonverse. But I was never interested in the comic book, thinking it was just a ploy for more attention.

However, I can get behind a motion comic. And I have a sexy deep voice that would be excellent for a villain. My friends tell me I have the evil mad mastermind laugh down pat.

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Boobs.

Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at November 17, 2009 10:27 AM

Don't you mean Willow's back? Day-am.

Posted by: linny at November 17, 2009 11:01 AM

Add me to Snath and Jeremy. I've been making lots of videos of the kids lately, and try not to speak at all because I cringe whenever I hear myself.

I don't sound at all like I do in my head.

Posted by: Drake at November 17, 2009 11:20 AM

I sound like Barry White. I have to communicate via etch a sketch lest my house be infested with snakes.

Posted by: Ian at November 17, 2009 11:31 AM

And I'd send in my demo, but I don't think they're going for "muppet on helium."

Then again, you never know, they could have a BRAND new take on Faith.

Posted by: linny at November 17, 2009 11:36 AM

We always sound weird to ourselves. I cannot abide my own voice on video, (don't even get me started on my appearance) yet I have had total strangers tell me I should work in voice over. I have decided to worry about the actual words coming out of my mouth, and not the mellifluous quality of my voice.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 17, 2009 11:55 AM

I'm definitely gonna try out for Faith.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 17, 2009 12:27 PM

Why don't they just bring the damn show back already? I mean, clearly, Joss Whedon is gonna have some free time, what with Dollhouse being canceled, and it's not as if the rest of the cast is super busy. The only person who's really done anything since the show aired is Allyson Hannigan, and let's face it: HIMYM is a boat that is going down faster than a Miss America contestant on The Donald.

BRING IT BACK, already, and give me something decent to watch!

Posted by: The Pink Hulk at November 17, 2009 12:33 PM

I cannot abide my own voice, (don't even get me started on my appearance) yet I have had total strangers tell me I should work in voice over.
I'm in the same boat, Lindsey with an "e". People have told me for years to consider voice over work (why, because I'm too hideous to appear in the flesh?) yet I really can't stand my voice recorded. I've convinced myself that I must sound better live and will never ever really hear what I sound like to others. One time I heard a recording of my voice that I'm convinced was doctored because I enjoyed it. I don't care if it was a live recording, someone played around with the tape for that 10 second excerpt only.

All of this is moot. There isn't room for a tenor in the Buffy-verse, unless they're casting for tween nerds in a future season.

Posted by: Robert at November 17, 2009 1:50 PM

I hate the Buffy comics. They're awful. People complained about season 6 being depressing, but the comics are worse. The plot lines are more depressing and there is pretty much no levity.

Posted by: Erm at November 17, 2009 1:58 PM

I read the first couple of issues, I had just finished watching Season 7 and I thought this comics sucked big time! First of all, nothing happens on those damn two first issues. And the nothing that happens is not even an interesting nothing. I think Buffy had its time, had a good finale, it should be left alone.

I wouldn't say the same for Angel, though. I couldn't find the courage to read After the Fall yet after the big Buffy disappointment (and it's short of a Joss, so who knows how bad it could be...) but I'll probably try reading it someday, if only to check out on Wes's SPOILER.

Cause Angel really finished its run before its time, and that was a shame. It needed a couple more seasons to really be done with everything. Or they could have just made a WES show.

Actually, I think it's still time for Joss to launch a procedural-cop-show with Wes as the ghost that helps cops to find criminals in a vampire-filled New York City. It would feature ghost-Cordy on episode 3. And Spike is always available, so we could have him joining the cast too. Really, this could never go wrong!!!! Somebody get this idea out to Joss.

Posted by: zito at November 17, 2009 6:33 PM

The Drew Goddard-written story arc of the Buffy comic (I think it's called Wolves at the Gate) is well worth reading. The highlight of the series so far.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at November 18, 2009 6:55 PM

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