Michael: I’m afraid I can’t agree with you about the shape of Buffy’s later seasons. Season 3 was the high point, and six and seven were nigh-unwatchable. The comic book “season eight” is definitely problematic, but it’s also very good.

Really enjoyed the Buffy article, too, although I’m one of those freaks who thinks the show only really hits its stride with series four. I rarely go back to the earlier episodes. That said, I feel like I’m becoming one of those awful, whinging fans when it comes to the comic books; they’ve had their moments, but they’re just not very good (and extremely problematic, but there’s not enough room on the internet for me to unleash that beast), yet so many fans are adamant to be the exact opposite of critical about them that I feel inclined towards capslock ranting to reach some sort of balance. Sometimes fandom makes me hate myself.

I couldn’t wait before. Now I Really can’t wait.

Justine: BEA was held this past weekend and I was really hoping to find an ARC of HTDYF, it didn’t really occur to me until after I found Paper Towns, so my librarian and I went looking for Bloomsbury in the publishers section, but we couldn’t find them, so we figured they weren’t there, but then I found out that THEY WERE there. They must have been hiding from me just because they knew how badly I really wanted an ARC. But I got 49 books, more than half of them ARCs. So I think I can wait.