Thu Jul 3, 2008 — by Van Jensen

Joss Whedon Talks 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Future

Naked Willow coming up?

Over at MTV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon talks about the big new direction for the comic book series, which sees Buffy and crew going off into the future.

In case, like me, you don't hold a Ph.D. from Whedon University, it's a good primer on all the implications that take hold with issue 16 (cover at right). In the issue, Buffy and Willow go to New York as a mystic event messes with time, into the world of Fray.

"The world of Fray has been a huge influence, in fact, the influence on season eight," Whedon said. "At the end of the series, I had something that categorically did not connect, and rather than throw out continuity, I used that. The present is so interesting with tons of slayers, and the future as we know it is quite the opposite. So why is that? And is that the death of magic?"

There's also this, which is sure to set some nerdy hearts aflutter:

Also, we'll be seeing a naked Willow soon.

"I had my fiancee pose for that one," [artist Karl] Moline said of the drawing. "It'll be a nice, special-looking pose."

"It'll be tasteful, unless he does it the way I wrote it," Whedon laughed. Don't assume it's another sex scene with Buffy, but something is about to happen that will rock the Scoobies' world. "Things really start to change after the Fray story arc," Whedon said, "and the next thing we'll be doing is seeing that from various points of view, with stand-alone issues dealing with larger issues of the world of the slayer and Twilight. There's someone in the picture who hasn't been there before, and the trick is, what's the most unexpected, and who's the most obvious and where's the most pain?"

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