Oh, I remember that story! Yes, I did read it. The art is, of course, absolutely gorgeous. It probably goes without saying that if Joan Chen were drawing the interior of the comic as well as the covers, fans probably wouldn't have half as many issues with it as they do - the artwork sells the story in a way that's simply more palatable. (If I imagine the same sequence drawn by the regular artist, for example... yeah, it doesn't work the same way at all.) In fact, I have no idea why Chen wasn't contracted to draw #34, if they had this planned all along. Talk about sales!
The two things that stuck out to me on this reading were that I hadn't noticed Tara there the first time (and that her blue shirt reminds me of Spike's in "Beneath You"), and wow, Spike got taller, didn't he? : )
I was talking with the husband about some of the quote-unquote feminism in Buffy the other night, and he's had a good argument that the sex-a-thon is a strange for Buffy (the character) in that she's being gender-coded as very female here, whereas in nearly all of her previous relationships, the mapping puts Buffy far more into a male role, and her partners are, in gender terms, mapped onto a female stereotype. So while I can give the series points for gender-bending subservion, I'm having a hard time picturing by-the-numbers male/female yin/yang sex as being anything other than... uh, exactly what it looks like. With the laws of nature and all. Um.
I'm working on a setting up a Dreamwidth account today, and I'll be sure and add you there! I don't know how much I'm likely to post there as opposed to here, but I'm definitely going to poke around and see what kind of crossposting option might work best.
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Date: 2010-04-12 03:59 pm (UTC)The two things that stuck out to me on this reading were that I hadn't noticed Tara there the first time (and that her blue shirt reminds me of Spike's in "Beneath You"), and wow, Spike got taller, didn't he? : )
I was talking with the husband about some of the quote-unquote feminism in Buffy the other night, and he's had a good argument that the sex-a-thon is a strange for Buffy (the character) in that she's being gender-coded as very female here, whereas in nearly all of her previous relationships, the mapping puts Buffy far more into a male role, and her partners are, in gender terms, mapped onto a female stereotype. So while I can give the series points for gender-bending subservion, I'm having a hard time picturing by-the-numbers male/female yin/yang sex as being anything other than... uh, exactly what it looks like. With the laws of nature and all. Um.
I'm working on a setting up a Dreamwidth account today, and I'll be sure and add you there! I don't know how much I'm likely to post there as opposed to here, but I'm definitely going to poke around and see what kind of crossposting option might work best.