I have been enjoying the Faith storyline No Future For You a lot, I think it's the best Faith centric episode. The season started okay but but not that gripping, right now I can't stop thinking about what'll happen next. The covers are very nice also. I'm still optimistic Spike will show up in a future issue, hopefully meating Buffy again.

I was reading a season eight Spuffy story yesterday, it was very enjoyable. If you know more of season eight Spuffy, I would like to read them.

I'm not following the comics. But there is an LJ community HERE that is devoted to Season 8.

I was never interested in the Season 8 comics.  I haven't liked what I've heard of them so far.  Besides, they're not likely to be Spuffy, so I think I'll just stick to fan fiction.

I haven't been reading the comics, a little cause I've never really liked comics, and it's just not the same as seeing the characters on tv. The characters don't have the right feel maybe. Or maybe I just like fanfiction better. Maybe if there's a Spuffy interaction in one of them, I'll read that one.

I've just finished the ones I have (smooches Selene) and will be getting the next one soon.  I found the covers quite attractive, but the stories a bit hard to follow.  It's been a long time since I read a comic book, and these seem a bit "busy" to me.  Part of that is my having trouble recognizing the characters, though.  Once the eye gets used to how the main characters are drawn, it gets easier to follow what's going on.  The Faith story seems like it will be an interesting one.

I've never liked graphic novels or comic books anyway, so when I heard about the season eight ones, I wasn't really enthused. I think I might have been curious enough to buy one, though, if I hadn't heard some of the negative feedback about them. Like Tammy, I think I'll just stick to fanfiction. I'm much more fond of words than drawings, anyway. :P

But I'm not dissing comic fans; please don't think that I am. I'm just saying that the artwork tends to distract me from the story. I prefer descriptive words to pictures.

I'd never read a single comic book before Buffy season 8 came out, but I've been enjoying them so far. They're by no means perfect, but I don't think the characterizations and the plots are any worse than what we saw on the show at times. The one thing I do find lacking is that we skipped a period of time (about a year, I think), and it feels like there's a distinct gap in character development not knowing what happened in between - but I think some of the future issues will delve more into that, and I can be patient.

The only other negative thing that I find is that, compared to an episode, they're so short! I can read one issue in ten minutes, and then it's a whole month or more before the next one arrives. That makes them feel a little unsatisfying to me, but I think that's a result of not being used to the medium.

The cover art is gorgeous... it makes me wish Jo Chen drew the entire comic! Although, having looked at some of the earlier Buffy comics, I think these drawings are definitely an improvement.

I'd never read a single comic book before Buffy season 8 came out, but I've been enjoying them so far. 

Ditto.  I've been enjoying the Faith storyline the most (just got my #8 in the mail today!).  Season 3 is actually one of my favorite seasons despite the obvious lack of Spike, but I think that has a lot to do with Faith.  She can be an interesting character.

The cover art is beautiful.  I actually wound up with one of the alternate covers for one issue, and I ended up ordering a second copy so that I could have the Jo Chen cover.  Sooooo much better.  The likenesses are very realistic, almost like someone took a photo and then colored it in :-)

As for why I decided to read the comics, I'm a canon nazi, and I just couldn't bear the thought of not knowing my canon inside and out :-P

When I was younger...maybe nine or ten, I became this intense Archie comic fan, and collected quite a bit of them.  Then I moved on to book series and tv.  Reading the Buffy comics is intriguing, and I'm dismayed for I know I'll probably end up collecting quite a number of them (3 bucks an issue is gonna add up--how many does he plan on doing?!), if not all of them.  I think it is because Joss says they're canon (since I could give a piss about the other Buffy comics preceding it), I'll go with it, and add it to my collection of Buffy DVDs (you know what I mean :P ) 

Anyway, yeah, Faith's story arc is the most intriguing so far.  I hope it gets better overall (storywise) before...well, ya know.

I was thrilled about season eight because I was starting to lose interest in Spuffy simply because I think I've read every possible storyline for them during the show. Now we have new material to work with. I was tremendously delighted to see a Spuffy season eight fanficion and it didn't disappoint, I hope there will be more soon.

Faith's storyline made me more optimistic about season eight. I didn't like the first storyline, it was too hard to follow. I have only enjoyed Buffy's dream and that's it. I wish the next issues will be like this one. It felt more like a TV episode than Joss's story.