Buffy the Vampire Slayer Switches Sides, and I’m Not Talking About Vampires
Like most card-carrying nerds, I enjoyed the hell out of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, and have equally enjoyed the current Season 8 comic from Dark Horse. Now the New York Times has an article about one of the upcoming issues, and if you’re curious why the NYT is discussing a comic at about issue #12, well…that’s because it has Slayer-on-Slayer action.
Yes, Buffy’s experimenting with the Willow side of life, but not with Willow; instead, she’s hooked up with fellow Slayer Satsu (Whedon assures the Times that Buffy is not gay, just open-minded); rest assured their is no hardcore action in the comic itself (with stakes or otherwise), just the post-coital awkwardness Buffy usually finds herself in. You can also hear from Whedon on the Buffy/Satsu hook-up in the article here, where he also discusses his history of killing lesbians.
This comes so far out of left field, I honestly have now idea how to feel about this, which is seldom the case when I think about lesbianism. Am I impressed at its open-mindedness? Betrayed at its gratuitousness? Aroused at the lesbian-ness? Damn you, Whedon!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.