Another perspective on the comic...

[pandorasblog]

While delving through my comics/feminism RSS feeds, I ran across an article: Why The Anita Blake Comic Won't Succeed (And Trust Me, I Want To Be Wrong). It turns out to be less an article on the likelihood of that particular comic doing well, and more one on why the author doesn't seem to think that many women read comics at all (began commenting, then realised it was turning into an essay; life's too short, yadda yadda yadda). Nevertheless, I thought it was interesting to have a line on the comic from outside the immediate fandom, and this is a particularly ironic one since LKH seems to have added First Ever Bringer Of Comics To Wimminkind to her list of imagined accomplishments...

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[ravenhaley.livejournal.com]

I still hold the only reason why Marvel picked up on Anita Blake Vampire Humper is because of this:

Dark Horse Comics will publish a new series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics that will pick up the story of the cult TV show and act as a de facto eighth season, Comics Continuum reported.

The new Buffy series is targeted for a March launch, and the first story arc will be a four-part series that will chronicle events after the Buffy television series' finale, which aired in 2003. Buffy creator Joss Whedon will write, with art by Georges Jeanty.

Buffy already has a following as it is. Not to mention this is going to be over the next season. Many fans were upset there wasn't going to be another season to explain what happens next. Anita will only be the ugly step-sister to Buffy.

[pandorasblog]

Yeah, and I can just imagine how people will react to it. Buffy is still way more well-known than Anita, specially among people who aren't dyed-in-the-wool geeks per se, or who are very into the TV/movie side of horror/fantasy fandom, but don't know a lot of authors doing this type of thing. A lot of people will assume it's a Buffy rip-off.