Joss “The Man” Whedon keeps coming up with new ways to separate me from my hard-earned cash.

• In case you’re not aware of it, there’s a huge Buffy comic book coming out March 14th. This new book is intended as a season-eight and the first storyline is written by Joss himself. According to Joss, it’s Buffy-verse continuity and this means I will have to hunt it down and buy it so I can read it. Of course, I could wait for the inevitable graphic novel collection of the stories to come out, but what’s the fun in that? Pieces of the comic have been previewed on-line since January and this weekend, Whitney Matheson at USA Today’s PopCandy linked to a .pdf file of the first six pages. Like giving crack to an addict is all I can say.
• In other news, it seems there will be a super-deluxe, two-disc edition of Serenity hitting the stores later this year. Whedon has promised lots of great extras. I wonder if we’ll get a new commentary or two with the cast–their commentaries on the DVDs of Firefly were great.