"Buffy" comic #22: Kennedy and Satsu bond over falling for straight women

The Cover looks very cool.

I haven't actually read any of the Buffy comics but I'm a Buffy fan. I think it was pretty realistic the talk between Kennedy and Satsu. Sometimes you need to mention the word 'straight' to a girl a number of times before she realises there's no chance!

As for Harmony having her own show on MTV, awesome, and vampire cat dolls! lol I'd buy one.

And who knows, maybe some of the potential slayers where training in the army before the got their slayer power, hense the excellent submarrine and helicopter navigation :P

i love buffy, and i love comics, but i will admit it was hard to get used to the change in pacing.  there is not usually a 1 show=1 comic ratio and i felt like i was watching 10 minutes of the show before a month-long commercial break.  but now that i'm a little more used to it, i do like it. 

i've never been a big fan of having 1000's of slayers (or of kennedy for that matter)  and feel that the comic should be called "The Vampire Slayers" since it's not really about buffy but about all the current slayers.  but with folks like joss whedon and jane espenson writing, and those gorgeous covers by jo chen, it's usually an enjoyable read anyway.

p.s.  buffy and satsu technically had a two-night-stand.  :)

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You know, it's nice to know that even fictional insanely hot cartoon women do the utterly stupid thing of falling for a straight woman.

It totally blows, so I know precisely what Satsu is going through *sigh*

I mean, they're kinda pounding in the whole "Buffy is straight! Straight did you hear me!!! STRAIGHT!!" line a tad strongly, which always rubs me the wrong way. Not that it isn't totally plausible that a straight woman would have a fling with a queer chick (I wish), and then go back to banging the penis none-the-changed. But it just reeks a tad of reassuring the straight teenage fanboys out there that there drool-fest is not denied to them. 

Anyway, I initially was getting the episodes when these comics came out with Whedon writing, but I kinda lost sequence. Think I might have to wait till a graphic novel collection comes out.

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Is there such a thing as "too well-rounded"? Because that's what I kind of picked up on with this one. The whole lip gloss symbolism thing kind of got predictable after the third reference. I think it could've stood to be a bit more literal.

Then again, I've never seen an actual episode of BtVS, so maybe this is just how things worked on the show, too. 

Even though I wish it had played out more organically, I'm a fan of Satsu and Kennedy bonding, When I initially read the summary for #22 online a month a go, my initial reaction was something along the lines of, "Oh, God. Kennedy's about to cheat on Willow." 

Oh, and call me daft, but what was up with the reflection of Renee in Satsu's sword? Is she still alive, or is this some sort of memorium thing? 

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— starting with Satsu, who unwittingly ingests a Vampy Cat

How does one ingest a stuffed animal?

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I thought this was a poor issue.  It seemed a way of getting out of Buffy having entered a relationship with a woman without dealing with the why.  And the why is important.  Buffy continued having sex with Satsu after the first night and made indications that she was sexually excited by Satsu (the response to "Ma'am").  And she seemed emotionally involved with her to a point.  This whole "she's straight" end of story is not satisfying because in real life it is far more complex.  Unlike many lesbians and bisexual women who during their life enter into relationships with men not due to love or attraction but because of a conflict over their sexuality (whether it be from familial, religious, or societal pressures), a woman that enters into a sexual relationship with another woman is not under pressure to do so.

Every "straight" woman I know who has slept with a woman when younger has tended towards more complex feelings than "I am straight and was just having some quick intimacy".  I think Buffy is without a doubt definitely more sexually and emotionally attracted to men.  I am not even saying she is at least bi.  However this issue took the easy way out.  It did not allow Buffy a proper closure of the relationship (the last time Satsu had been seen with Buffy they were making love - despite Buffy stating it was over).  It also brought up one of the more annoying traits among some lesbians (the need to state certain women one has slept with are straight).  If I listened to that I would not be with the person I have married.

As with FABLES, I'm waiting for the trades before reading these so I don't get the somewhat unfulfulling feeling you can get when you follow the stories via the monthly pamphlets.

Incidentally, I waas a bit puzzled by Sarah describing Kennedy as a "lesbian of color". I have no idea what the ethnicity of the actress who played her might be, but have we ever been given any reason to think the character is anything other than caucasian? The two are not necessarily the same, after all. I mean Jessics Alba may be Hispanic, but the character she played in the Fantastic Four movies, Sue Storm, is a blonde WASP.

so do willow and kennedy not stay together and kennedy falls for buffy? i don't read the comics..

that sounds like such shit writing though