Buffy and Angel are fun escapism and quality entertainment for the most part, but neither show is as original nor as mythologically deep as Whedon's cultists would have us believe.

Firefly bored the tits off me because I could always guess the end of the episode roughly 10 minutes after it started.

As for the Buffy comics *rolls eyes* let's just say they're a serious case of "meh" (no, I've never bought any, but I've at least looked at every issue and I haven't been at all impressed), so the wet-panty reaction that greets every issue mystifies me.