Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Blade, Buffy, Sex-Machine and the Frog Brothers – can they stop the vampires?

July 26, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Published on Friday the 13th, Gunship featuring Tim Cappello and Indiana, ‘Dark All Day’ picked up a vampire problem. If you’ve seen Lost Boys, you’ll recognise the setup. The warning sign, the Frog Brothers and the sax player on stage.…

Genre Police: Go Mythic, Or Go Home!

January 2, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Welcome to Genre Police, a new series of articles where taking a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games.…

Vampires and bandwagons: An interview with Freda Warrington

May 15, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Freda Warrington is the author of the highly acclaimed A Taste of Blood Wine. In this interview, I ask Freda about the story, about vampires but also about gender roles in fiction and in reality.…

Doctor Who: Are the Whispermen related to the Trickster?

April 30, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

It is expected that the villains in The Name of the Doctor, the season finale, are a group known as the Whisperman (or perhaps Whisper Men, I’ve seen it written both ways).…

Buffy: Behind the scenes stunts, fights and vampire slaying keep coming

January 12, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jeff Pruitt coordinated stunts and fights for Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. As it happens, he took his own video footage of the stunts and fight scenes of some of the most popular Buffy episodes.…

Billy the gay male Vampire Slayer, good idea?

September 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The battle for attention in the world of comics is intense. Just sit back and watch DC and Marvel go at it and you’ll see what I mean. There will be some who will criticize this Dark Horse for re-writing the Buffy the Vampire Slayer mythology from “only females can be Vampire Slayers” to “only people who are attracted to men can be Vampire Slayers”.…

What Would Buffy Do?

May 20, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

For a while in marketing land there was an expression “What Would Google Do?” It was coined by Jeff Jarvis – who even wrote a book about it. The phrase worked because back then people thought Google could solve any problem through their clever lateral and algorthmic leaning thinking.…

Monsters: Doctor Who’s Silence and Buffy’s Hush [spoilers]

April 11, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The BBC have released more Doctor Who pictures and in them we findally get to see the Silence. All year we’ve been wondering about what “Silence Will Fall” might mean and now The Daily Fail, of all people has these pictures along with speculation Amy Pond will die.…

Buffy season 8 – not undead, it’s a motion-comic

July 27, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Comic Con saw not only the limited release of Buffy the Vampire Slayer soda but also season 8. Just to explain; season 8 picks off where TV season 7 finishes but as a comic.…