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Buffy Season Nine – Missing Arms And Abortions (SPOILERS)

Dan Slott once told me (and a crowd of other people, true, but he was on a Bleeding Cool panel – how things have changed) about a plot he's had for the Thing comic that never came to fruition. About The Thing receiving, through the post, Alicia Masters severed arms, a rather gruesome cliffhanger. It would have been resolved by the arms suddenly coming to life, revealed as robot arms, which then proceed to beat the Thing around the face. I thought it was a very clever mix of gore and slapstick, with a month between to heighten the tension.

I was reminded of that reading Buffy The Vampire Slayer last week. And yes, feel free to put spoilers all over this thing if you haven't, or you are following in trade paperback. For a start the infamous "armless" cover was from issue 8 and the limb removal actually happened last week. Like this.

And what was expected to be a rather controversial, emotive and touching abortion procedure that Buffy would be going through, just as a time when the Texan law with compulsory transvaginal scans is in the spotlight, was totally sidestepped with this revelation.

That Buffy can't be pregnant. It's just a malfunctioning Buffybot.

So, lots of questions. Where is Buffy? Can the Buffybot be considered alive, handling complex emotions? Who rebuilt her after she was torn asunder by vampires on motorbikes? How long as Spike been mooning over a toaster?

Although it may rather explain this upcoming cover for issue 9…

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