I read comics and watch movies and I have to laugh when some buffy fans says the comics are canon.the buffy comics folks tells us they are canon so wecan buy it. If buffy was ever rebooted or the shows comes back. I guarantee you they will ignore the comics.
I don't count comics as canon. Comics and Live action tv series are two different medians. I still see the final as Chosen.
Like not everyone reads comics.
I take it as just another source of material in the Buffyverse not connected to the tv series. Regardless if they say they are canon or not. To me Buffy ended in 2003.
Besides if Buffy returns for a new tv series, spin-off or movie. Comics are gone as canon. So yeah.
I don't laugh at the people who made Buffy.
shareIt's not the people who made Buffy. It's Joss Whedon. These are the people who made Buffy and just some of them at that.
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Joss Whedon - those people = The comics and the movie.
That is a nitpick and a cop-out. If you are expecting every single person who ever worked on some aspect of Buffy to come out and say, unanimously, what is canon, that pretty much will never happen.
Joss Whedon is the most important of the people who created Buffy, and it's not solely him proclaiming the comics as canon.
You said the people who created Buffy. Those are the people who did that. Joss is one of many. The producers who regulated Joss and the writers, the actors who informed the characters, the directors, et al.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a whole lot more than just Joss Whedon. Despite what he tells you.
Seeing as how Fox, the actual owners of the Buffy franchise, have also approved them as canon, that pretty much trumps everyone else.
I ignore the comics and don't care what happens in them. But that doesn't mean they aren't official canon.
You are sin.
You said the people who created Buffy. Those are the people who did that.
Not to mention Nic Brendon who also writes them.
Really though I take them as canon as we lack anything else. If Joss were to do a series of TV movies and want to bring back characters such as Ethan Rayne I can't see anyone objecting.
They are canon.....for now. and if there never is some kind of live action continuation they will remain canon. but if there ever is, purely from a business standpoint, you have to throw most everything in the comics away. ive never read any but i have read some synopsis and alot has happened to the characters throughout those comics. now imagine you do a live action continuation. Buffy wasnt just a cult hit, it had a large following of millions of fans, the majority of whom never read or have even heard of the comics. you leave all that stuff in and it will only confuse the majority of fans. but honestly, i have my doubts it will ever happen. they seem to be doing more reboots with different actors these days instead of reunion movies
shareIf there ever is a live action continuation, the comics will go the way of the Star Wars expanded universe when Disney made episode 7.
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I don't laugh, just roll my eyes. People like to say: Well Whedon said they are canon so they are canon. What they forget is that he also called the latter part of S8 fanfiction. But fanfiction can't be canon last I checked. He also said he would ignore the comics if he ever got to make any kind of live action continuation. Which means they aren't canon if he could discard them so damn easily.
He would pretty much have to discard the comics for any live action anyway since barely anyone is reading them (looking at sales numbers). Even if he never got another project off the ground, the simple fact that he would nilly willy discard whole Seasons just like that, pretty much means to me that stuff is worthless to invest in. So it's worthless 'canon' as well.
Concur. I've never read the comics, don't intend to. I've always considered them fanfic written/sanctioned by Buffy's #1 fan.