A short while ago I had the opportunity of meeting Chrisopher Golden at a gaming/scifi shop in Cambridge. He is the author of the Watchers guide, some of the Buffy books and comics. There he revealed Tara would be added to the comics in issue 29 (issue 28 just came out), he would be doing a story with Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise) and Amber herself. In addition a Willow/Tara valentines story on appears on Feb 7.
Because of this and a few other reasons I decided to give the comics another chance. The first few issue were really bad in characterization (an early cover had Willow, Buffy and Cordy in a slumber party pillow fight). Given the new developments I picked up a few issues and I have to say I am encouraged about getting some vicarious W/T from the comics.
The charactes and art are better, and dialog has the snap of the show now (Joss is supposedly begining to supervise the comics, and Douglas Petrie is writing some).
One really nifty conceit is the periodic use of flashbacks of Willow and Xanders childhood. These flashbacks are used to sort of illistrate the back ground behind a interaction (showing their way they can work togther). Typcialy would be Willows Mom telling her not be Jane to Xanders Tarzan , then showing her standing up to him on an issue in the present.
To set it off, the flashback pages are done in a bright Manga style, very cute.
I'll try to post some pages if anyone wants to see it.
The comics seem to be improving, and it may be the only way to see smoochies , this season at least..
Dr Lloyd