Buffy : Season 8

1. Hellbound Hyperion: Are plans still in the make for one-shots in-between Meltzer’s arc and Joss’s arc? Is there any progress on that front as to story, possible fill-in artists if necessary, etc etc?

Scott Allie: There will be at least one oneshot between #35 and #36. It’s the Wash oneshot that I think we’ve been talking about for a while. You guys know about that, right? We’re gonna pop that in after #35, and then, depending on schedule, there might be another oneshot right after it. The schedule has been difficult.

2. Smashed: If the Willow one-shot sells well, is there any chance of her getting a spin-off series? Or any chance of ANY spin-off series?

Scott Allie: Still no plans for any spinoff series. I know you guys would like more, and I appreciate the interest, but our focus is really to just tell the stories Joss wants to tell. I’ve got ideas I’d like to do for spinoffs, but I don’t want to do anything he doesn’t have time to be work on himself.

3. Rebecca: Where are you in terms of S8 script completion?

Scott Allie: We are cutting it close! We just got #34 done! It’s really close. Joss got buried in Dollhouse. It’s hard for me to see ANY good in what Fox did with Dollhouse, but I do hope that it makes our schedule a little bit easier.

4. AndrewCrossett: There seems to be some confusion as to whether the Twilight reveal will take place in issue #33 or #34. In which issue will we definitively know who the man behind the mask is?

(I need to know which Wednesday to take a personal day from work... I’ll need to be at the comic shop the moment the issue hits my pull box.)

Scott Allie: It’s in #33. I think the only confusion is that we didn’t put Twilight’s face on the cover of #33—some people have decided that means that we don’t show him until next issue. No, guys, just that we don’t want to show him till we get to that page. And I read where someone said—as if they had any idea whatsoever—that the reveal will happen on the last page of the issue, and that you’ll have to wait a month to see what it means. It will not; you will not. It happens pretty much dead center in the issue. You get to see the initial reaction, the fallout.

5. alexykrycek: In the Q&A column of TOYL Part 1, there’s several questions about Marci Ross, who happens to be a word that rhymes with... Blinvisible and a possible return due to the military connection. Might this assassin make waves in the final few issues of season 8?

Scott Allie: Well, General Ross is her uncle, and he chases the Hulk to Tibet, and so Marci gets called in to ... well, to be invisible.

No. Marci Ross is not Twilight.

6. wenxina: I noticed that like in Fray, the colorist was switched at some point in S8. Between the two same people. Why did you decide to switch from Dave Stewart to Michelle Madsen in the middle of an on-going project? Was Dave only contracted for a certain number of issues (10, in the case of S8)?

Scott Allie: In both cases, Dave got busy with other things. With Fray, the schedule went so astray he just moved on to other things. Got busy, and when it was time to wrap things up, I hired someone else to do it. With Buffy, conversely, he didn’t want to keep up with the monthly schedule. I work with Michelle on a lot of things, and almost everything I do is colored by one of the two of them. Michelle is actually a much bigger Buffy/Serenity/etc. fan.

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