* WARNING * for those of you who haven’t seen Season 7 yet, you may want to hold off on reading any further…there be some slight spoilage ahead…

Wait! Stop the Watchercast! There is one more season of Buffy to come!

That’s right. Season 8 is coming! OK, it may not be in quite the same format as we all came to know and love (on the TV for those of you who don’t remember) but Joss is creating Buffy Season 8, as we speak. It’s canon, it’s Buffy, it’s one-eyed Xander, it’s Willow…it’s the whole crew!

And it’s a comic!

Now, for some of you, this may be as exciting to hear as “Buffy is undergoing a sex change operation!”, but for me, this is music to my ears. As a HUGE comic nerd (20 long boxes, baby!) I can’t be more excited! I mean, look at that beautiful Buffy cover for issue #1. Just LOOK at it! That was done by series artist, George Jeanty. Now, I’m not terribly familiar with his stuff, but from what have seen, it looks like the man can draw. He’s just never drawn anything that I wanted to read before. But all that has changed!

Ok, so here is the scoop. This isn’t just some piddly little 6 issue mini that he’s offering to us…from what I’ve seen, this story is going to last for TWENTY to THIRTY issues(!), picking up right where we left off at the end of Season 7. There is now an entire world of slayers, there are even 3 Buffys! (I know that doesn’t make sense…that’s why you have to read the first 4 pages, which are being previewed for us by the nice people at TV Guide, right here.)

It’s Joss, it’s Buffy…what more do you need?! Get thee to a Comic Book Shop!