Check out our exclusive interview with Buffy Season 9 artist Georges Jeanty!

What’s your favorite part of working in comics as an art medium?

I think the ability to tell stories is probably my favorite part of this. I love reading a script and then figuring out how to interpret those words visually, to choose the one thing that will best illustrate it. It’s like figuring out this puzzle and you only have a certain number of pieces in which to do it, so picking the one image to tell a piece of story can be pretty challenging. The end result is this really cool thread of a story that is now told in pictures.

Did you meet any big challenges when jumping into work on Buffy Season 9?

Only the biggest challenge I had with Season 8: to give the reader the feel of the TV show. That has been the hardest thing and the most rewarding when it’s recognized. I get excited when someone comes up to me and says reading the comic felt like watching an episode of the show. I was cautious coming back wondering if I could still give the reader that familiarity, and the first few months of the series is always a little nerve racking because I won’t get any feedback until months after I’ve finished a few issues of the series.

What excites you most about working on Buffy Season 9?

Getting to work with so many incredible people, not the least of which is Joss. And this season we have Andrew Chambliss coming onboard to do the lion’s share of the season, so there is a lot of freshness to the series and a lot of  nerves to try to live up to the last season!

If you were free to work on your own original comic, what would it be about?

It would probably involve the superhero medium in some way. I don’t have any specifics as such, and I know that’s rare. It seems every artist I talk to has their own creator-owned project. I don’t mind playing in other people’s sandboxes.

If you had a superpower, what would it be?

If I were thirteen, it would be strength. I was a huge fan of the Thing and growing up I thought it would have been so cool to smash stuff. Then I read Paul Chadwick’s Concrete and that explained what it would really be like to have the Thing’s ability, and while that series fascinated me, I didn’t really want to be the Thing anymore. I guess if I were to say that today, it would be flight. I know that sounds almost cliché, but c’mon, how would it be to be able to fly? Knowing me, I would probably do it more Greatest American Hero than Superman…