Michael, I think I recommended those to you last year, but I’m not sure if you ever picked them up. It’s basically a bunch of short comics stories about slayers and vampires throughout time — some of whom we know and some we don’t — written by Joss and some of the other writers from Buffy/Angel, with various artists.

In fact, I need to go dig those up and read them again …

Everything with Xander and Dracula was pure drama gold.

I actually went and picked up the Fray trade after the last time you mentioned it. It was really cool so I’m excited to see how they work this out in the current run. I can imagine there will be a lot of advice about slaying and hair care.

I just picked up “Tales of the Vampires” the other day and I’m waiting on “Tales of the Slayer” to be delivered to my comic shop. I haven’t read the omnibus stuff either because it wasn’t written by Joss but those two partly are. Have you ever read them?

To be honest, as much as I’d love to see the Buffy/Angel characters on a big or small screen, at this point, I think it’s too late for them to carry a project. They’ve all aged just enough, physically and mentally, and I don’t know if their heads would be in it any more. It could end up being more disappointing than awesome, you know? I’d rather see them all make cool cameo appearances in a new project that took place in the same universe/mythology — the way it was cool to get Buffy character cameos in the Angel TV show after Buffy was canceled. And a Fray series — or some other new Buffy-verse series — would let that happen.

Yeah, prolly not.

I’d take a Fray movie.

But the key thing to keep in mind is that it was comic book guys who wrote most if not all of the stories in the Omnibus, and not either Joss or the TV show writers. So I’m not surprised to hear that the tone and dialogue seem a bit off. One of the reasons I was so excited to hear that Joss would be helming a “Season 8″ comic is that I knew we’d get a book that was true to the feel of the series itself. And sure enough, he’s pulled that off, both with Buffy and Angel.

Having said all that, I’ve always been curious to read some of those stories, in particular for the origin story, and to see how somebody imagined what happened between the movie and the TV series. I’ve just never gotten around to it.

What would be even better, of course, is if Joss himself would write/plot a version of that same time period. Call it “Buffy: Season Zero” maybe. Who knows — if the title continues to do well, maybe he will!

Well, there’s something you don’t see every day.

But you’re still Andrew.

I just picked up the Buffy Omnibus (Volume 1). Spike and Dru at the World’s Fair! It’s fun, but the tone and dialog don’t seem quite right. Does it get better?