Buffy : Season 9

Well, folks. Here it is. The ever gracious Georges Jeanty agreed to a short little interview with me, so here it is. We talk broadly about the upcoming Buffy Season 9, and he drops a decent size tidbit about the upcoming Spike 8-page online comic.

Enjoy.

Thanks for agreeing to talk with us, Georges. Today’s been pretty damn exciting for fans of the Buffyverse, with the announcement of the creative team at WonderCon, and the barrage of interviews and reports pouring in from everywhere. Enjoying WonderCon yet?

Georges: Y’know, I haven’t had the time to enjoy the Con because I’ve been shackled to my table meeting all the wonderful West coast fans. The whole show was a whirlwind of excitement and news!

Down to business: First of all, how does it feel to be continuing on this journey with Buffy and her fans?

Georges: I don’t know if I ever really had any doubts that I would come back. It’s not like there was some cosmic thread linking me to Buffy preventing me from leaving or anything like that, and I did have offers from Marvel and DC for work, I just always felt if there was a Season 9 I’d probably be coming back. I don’t know if it’s because I’m such a big fan of the show or that I’m not sick of these characters yet or what. I’m just happy to return to these individuals that I have come to know and love for 4 years now. I love that I get to further Buffy’s story. I had a phone conversation with Joss a while a go and he filled me in on all the goings on of Season 9 and I couldn’t wait to get to it!

Season 8 was a four year long commitment on your part; that must have been exhausting, though, hopefully rewarding too. What attracted you to the prospect of continuing as one of the lead artists for Season 9? At which point did you seriously consider continuing, and when was that deal locked down?

Georges: I think the deal was locked down in January, but I talked to Joss about it back in November, and we were shooting the breeze about one of the stories he was writing and he asked how I felt about a Season 9. At that point I had only heard rumors of a new season. I asked what his involvement would be and and he said it would be more of the same. I told him if he’d come back, then I would come back. He said he was glad I said that because he really wanted me to continue. I knew nothing about Season 9 at that point, but I knew if Joss was in then it was going to be good! I did have those thoughts of being shoehorned into a project for a long time and then becoming typecast and, let’s face it, the comic medium is a superhero medium and if you’re not doing superheros you’re shunned in some weird way. But I’ve had such a great time doing Buffy and with such great stories, I said to myself, if this is all I ever get to do, then it ain’t so bad.

Easy question: I’m assuming that you’ll be providing the variant covers to all the Buffy books, like you did with Season 8? Sneak peek possible?

Georges: With Wonder Con, Dark Horse is releasing the first covers of Buffy and Angel & Faith, and I did covers for both. They both have the number "25" woven into the design and that’s because this year marks the 25 anniversary of Dark Horse Comics and they wanted to commemorate that with all the first issue books they’re putting out this year. Both covers are vastly different in approach. I hate to say it, when Joss and I were talking about the Angel book, I was getting a little jealous that I wasn’t going to be drawing that one. There was a point where I was asked which book I’d like to be on... and with Faith being a part of Angel & Faith, I was seriously considering it, but, I don’t think I could have done any other book other than Buffy. Buffy is what I started on and it’s an honor to further her adventures.

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