With Buffy the Vampire Slayer in our review mirror and its amazing spin-off series Angel looming on the horizon, we’re going to take this limbo-like space in between to explore some comics. One comic in particular, Joss Whedon’s 2001-2003 four-color debut Fray. Joining me for this discussion 200 years in the making are returning guests Dale Guffey and Vickie Willis Navarra. Together we look at the trauma of being incomplete; female rage; Vickie blows my mind with talk of the control of a woman’s reproduction in the final battle; Dale blows my mind with definitions of the word ‘fray’; and I gush over the artwork of Karl Moline and Andy Owens (including my beloved fight choreography obsession).

NEXT: maybe Angel, maybe more comics. Who knows?

BREAKDOWN

00:00:55  -  Intro / Guest

00:18:53  -  Let’s Go to Work

01:52:30  -  Outro / Next

LIBRARY

Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon, by K. Dale Koontz

LINKS

V.E.W. Navarra: Writing All The Things 

Call For Papers: LAWYERS AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN POPULAR CULTURE (Southwest Popular / American Culture Association)

MUSIC

“Conversations (feat. Wesley Mead)” by Azura (2017)

“Four of Two” by They Might Be Giants, No! (2002)