Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Comic Books

So, my number one Girlpower Heroine, Buffy Summers, comes back today four years older and wiser, but in comic book form.

I love her madly, but I'm really torn as to whether or not I'm going to buy the comic book.

It's not that I don't like comic books. I've loved them ever since the days of Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica.

It's just that seeing Sarah Michelle Gellar reduced somehow to the printed page saddens me. I think that when the show ended, it did so exactly at the right time. Season Seven was really starting to bum me out, and the show had just lost its joy, at least for me.

Joss Whedon is writing the first three or four issue stories, and the review that I read today of the first issue was very positive. And I certainly can't blame him for going comic book after he wound up leaving "Wonder Woman" and the way "Firefly" was cancelled after only 11 episodes.

I just wish this first issue was the first full-length Buffy movie. If he could make "Serenity," I don't see why he couldn't do a Buffy movie. We Buffy geeks would be out there in our many thousands the first weekend.

I saw in the Baltimore Sun that a man in Brooklyn had a "Once More with Feeling" sing-along, a la the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" sing along. I'm sure Buffy geeks weren't throwing toast, or anything like that, but once again, as this hits the road, as it's supposed to do after its New York success, I'm pretty dubious about attending. Time will tell.