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Yay! I got my grubby little hands on the first issue of Spike's miniseries, and now I will post about it. I think I'm probably going to start posting about the entire run of the Buffy (and the Angel & Faith) comics more from now on as new issues come out, starting here. So. SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE. Ahem.
Oh, Spike...only you could manage to be simultaneously sympathetically tragic, utterly pathetic, and completely ridiculous all AT THE SAME TIME. It is a gift. <3
So anyway, choosing to drown his sorrows in a bottle of booze and a sulk with a side of obsessive brooding (really, pumpkin, her hairbrush?!?) is nothing new for Spike....although doing so on the dark side of the moon in a spaceship full of sentient space bugs is a novel approach.
What is new is, like I talked about in my last post, is that he's in his Woe Corner this time by choice, and while he's being crankily melodramatic about it (BLESS HIS HEART), he's also heading towards introspective self-awareness here that isn't just about wallowing over love doing him wrong, but trying to figure out what he's doing that is contributing to always ending up back in his Woe Corner. Well, okay...with the help of his space bugs.
Which is also something new which I ADORE. I think this is the first time we've really seen Spike surrounded by a support system that is uniquely his. And sure, they are SENTIENT SPACE BUGS (LOL forever), but they genuinely care about him and I think that's making a difference. Which brings me back to the whole introspection thing, which is, I think coming down to Spike finally starting to get that he has this tendency to idealize and romanticize and build up these elaborate fantasies about love that aren't realistic and that's on him. So you've got his space bugs (<3 <3 <3 <3), who are worried and want him to be happy and refuse to let him go all broody alone and give him the whole beach fantasy (OMG SPIKE IN SWIM SHORTS AND COMBAT BOOTS, I CANNOT EVEN DEAL WITH THIS), and I don't think it's a coincidence that this act of real, in the here and now, being cared for is what breaks through. With a side of sarcastic sentient space bugs in hula skirts (DYING HERE, FOR REALS) In the solarium he was building to house his fantasy about Buffy, repurposed by his bug friends to pull him out of his funk. I...kind of love this a LOT. Spike is on the verge of getting real here. Something I think he was on the road to doing in Angel season 5, but I think he really needed to come back and start working through his Buffy stuff because dying heroically on the Hellmouth got him out of really doing that and gave him a perfect out to avoid it for a long time.
And then there was an amphibapocalypse with a homicidal moon frog, and he gets to have a nice spot of violence, but then he was captured by the bad guys who sent the moon frog, and I have no clue what they even want or why they are on the moon too? IDEK. I would be more worried about that and the plan to jettison him into space, but since he doesn't actually need to breathe or anything I'm not stressing it even if he and his bug friends can't break free to kick their asses. And I reckon we'll get more of an explanation in the next issue. Goddamn comics making me wait a month in between issues. Ah well, I still have to catch up on Angel & Faith.
Oh, Spike...only you could manage to be simultaneously sympathetically tragic, utterly pathetic, and completely ridiculous all AT THE SAME TIME. It is a gift. <3
So anyway, choosing to drown his sorrows in a bottle of booze and a sulk with a side of obsessive brooding (really, pumpkin, her hairbrush?!?) is nothing new for Spike....although doing so on the dark side of the moon in a spaceship full of sentient space bugs is a novel approach.
What is new is, like I talked about in my last post, is that he's in his Woe Corner this time by choice, and while he's being crankily melodramatic about it (BLESS HIS HEART), he's also heading towards introspective self-awareness here that isn't just about wallowing over love doing him wrong, but trying to figure out what he's doing that is contributing to always ending up back in his Woe Corner. Well, okay...with the help of his space bugs.
Which is also something new which I ADORE. I think this is the first time we've really seen Spike surrounded by a support system that is uniquely his. And sure, they are SENTIENT SPACE BUGS (LOL forever), but they genuinely care about him and I think that's making a difference. Which brings me back to the whole introspection thing, which is, I think coming down to Spike finally starting to get that he has this tendency to idealize and romanticize and build up these elaborate fantasies about love that aren't realistic and that's on him. So you've got his space bugs (<3 <3 <3 <3), who are worried and want him to be happy and refuse to let him go all broody alone and give him the whole beach fantasy (OMG SPIKE IN SWIM SHORTS AND COMBAT BOOTS, I CANNOT EVEN DEAL WITH THIS), and I don't think it's a coincidence that this act of real, in the here and now, being cared for is what breaks through. With a side of sarcastic sentient space bugs in hula skirts (DYING HERE, FOR REALS) In the solarium he was building to house his fantasy about Buffy, repurposed by his bug friends to pull him out of his funk. I...kind of love this a LOT. Spike is on the verge of getting real here. Something I think he was on the road to doing in Angel season 5, but I think he really needed to come back and start working through his Buffy stuff because dying heroically on the Hellmouth got him out of really doing that and gave him a perfect out to avoid it for a long time.
And then there was an amphibapocalypse with a homicidal moon frog, and he gets to have a nice spot of violence, but then he was captured by the bad guys who sent the moon frog, and I have no clue what they even want or why they are on the moon too? IDEK. I would be more worried about that and the plan to jettison him into space, but since he doesn't actually need to breathe or anything I'm not stressing it even if he and his bug friends can't break free to kick their asses. And I reckon we'll get more of an explanation in the next issue. Goddamn comics making me wait a month in between issues. Ah well, I still have to catch up on Angel & Faith.