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Joss Whedon confirms Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Nine
- Posted on September 24, 2009 - 09:01 AM by Kevin Melrose
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 6 (by Jo Chen)
With still another dozen issues to go in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight -- the Dark Horse comic-book continuation of the cult-hit TV series -- creator Joss Whedon already has confirmed there will be a Season Nine.
"Well, 40 issues was always the goal [for Season Eight], and that’s how we’re playing it," Whedon tells Complex.com. "We’re around issue 30 now, we’ve got about 10 to go, five of which I have to write, so I have to get on that. Then we’ll pause for breath and then we’ll start Season Nine.
"... I have had for a long time a conception for Season Nine that is very different from Season Eight. It may not run as long, because 40 issues sounds great until you realize that it’s four or five years."
In the interview, which focuses heavily on Dollhouse, Whedon also talks about his Astonishing X-Men collaborator John Cassaday, who will direct an episode of the science-fiction TV show.
"He’s a storyteller," Whedon said. "I gave him shorter scripts than any other artist I’ve worked with because he has an extraordinary visual sense and it very much matches my own. ... With Cassaday, I know he can tell a story, I know him as a person, his sensibility, the way he is with other people and I just feel that this step is logical for him, it’s something he’s been pursuing for a while."
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11 Comments
Vega
September 24, 2009 at 10:46 am
Ugh, not another one...
And Cassaday directing Dollhouse? So it's going to be even more shallow and two-dimensional than usual? Oh dear.
Tom Daylight
September 24, 2009 at 10:58 am
This isn't actually news - Joss Whedon has talked about this before, many times.
Vega, you have not a clue what you talk about when it comes to John Cassaday as a filmmaker.
Sniper Joe
September 24, 2009 at 11:15 am
Hey, Vega. Is anyone FORCING you to read it? Don't read it if you're not interested. Why do people just love to complain on the internet? Bitching for the sake of bitching. Jeez.
I'm looking forward to it. Though the last few issues of Season 8 were pretty rough, on the whole it has been really enjoyable and I will be getting on board with Season 9.
Don't care too much about Dollhouse (though my ex loves it), I might have to check out the Cassaday episode.
Mike Klander
September 24, 2009 at 11:21 am
So does this mean that it will take two years for Cassaday to direct one episode like it took him half a year in between issues of Astonishing just to draw them? Well he better start directing for the series finale from now. The season 8 Buffy was good. I'm beginning to feel Season 9 would be too much. After Season 7 on TV you still had the sense that there was plenty more Buffy stories to tell, which is why Season 8 worked for me. But Season 9...I don't know.
Mark
September 24, 2009 at 11:28 am
Great! Once you're done, just put out an Omnibus for season 8 and I'll buy it!
Tommy
September 24, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Vega, why would you even click on this story, if you hate the concept and, apparently, everyone involved?
Chris
September 24, 2009 at 4:43 pm
With the success of Buffy "comic seasons," it would be nice to see future seasons of Firefly... While their story had been given a kind of end with the movie, it also opened up new beginnings I would have liked to have seen explored. This idea of having Joss Whedon be the "showrunner" of the comic and having others sort of write it would fit nicely with that.
MPNeeb
September 24, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Great. Take another 4 years to do what the TV show would do in 9 months.
I can't control my excitement.
Season 9. Can't be interesting. A span of 2 years in a life doesn't usually mean a lot has happened. A span of 5 years on the other hand can mean a lot can happen.
Skip Season 9.
I want season 15 or Season 20.
die-yng
September 25, 2009 at 3:03 am
Some people just have to bitch about everything and are never satisfied.
Devyn
September 25, 2009 at 8:13 pm
People act live John Cassaday is a newbie at directing. He has directed television before.
Paul1963
September 28, 2009 at 7:49 am
People also act like every creative effort takes as long as drawing does. It doesn't. I assure you, writing this message took a small fraction of the time it would have taken to pencil, ink and letter a drawing of someone saying it.