The Buffy Season 8 Comics… Cool stuff. We were ‘HUGE’ fans of the show (“Tuesday evenings have never felt the same since…). Anyone who loved that show should (and probably already has) check out these comics.

It was tough to get into at first, but the wit, humor and drama of the series are here (especially since it’s a lot of the same folks in on this comic endeavor…).

It’s cool how this series is treated as ‘Season 8′ of the TV series, picking up where the show left off. There’s a ton of unanswered questions slowly being revealed and it makes for a real nice sense of drama and anticipation.

The artwork is great and its nice seeing the characters reflecting the look of the actors from the series. Often in this type scenario you might have some other interpretation portrayed in comic form, but they work well here.

I haven’t read the fourth one yet, but issues 1 – 3 ran along nicely. Just dropped in my preorder for issues 5 & 6… Coming in August! Check out things from another world (tfaw.com) for these comix and all things Buffy and comic related!

So after a week of hype, here’s my take on the whole Sopranos ending. I thought it was solid and fit perfectly with the series as a whole. What better way to convey the mood and mindset of Tony and his family than that. Always drama, always paranoia, always looking over your shoulder. And to see it in that setting…a family get together as mundane and innocent as can be. Discussions of Onion Rings and birth control prescriptions….

And why was everyone so angry? Was it that compelling to see Tony get killed? Isn’t this better than one of those cheesy “been there, done that” TV endings (i.e. – it was all a dream….). Why the need for some spoon-fed resolution? A buddy put it well when they pointed out that this isn’t a movie… There’s no drive for a beginning, middle, end type setup. This was just a few year window into the life of a particular mobster whose family and follies we all grew to love.

A Letter From CBS shows that the whole “sending nuts” to CBS to save the show Jericho” has worked! That’s impressive. usually (in fact almost always…i.e.-Arrested Development for instance), thousands of fans clammer for the return of a favorite canceled show only to get no response and no results. Maybe this will signal things to come in terms of how Nielsen ratings are read and interpreted by advertisers and TV executives. I know shows like Jericho (and yes that was one we watched) are part of the growing number of shows that hit target demographics who view a lot of TV via DVR/TiVo or even online or through ITunes/Ipod methods.. Until those numbers are included or represented somehow, the Nielsen ratings of television will never truly reflect a shows fan base in any true context…

Congrats to those who sent Nuts (i did not…).