Re: COE: Actually, I liked COE a lot better when I thought it might be the finale. It wasn't until I learned that there was probably going to be another season that I started to dislike it more. I felt like, for the most part, COE was an appropriate finale and in my personal canon, that's what it was and anything that might take place afterward is more of a spin-off type thing a la the Buffy Season Eight comics.

I think it's unlikely that I'll read the Buffy comics. I considered it, but like you, I see the finale of Buffy as being really fitting. I thought it was a good close to the arc of the show, and while I'm fine with thinking of the characters moving on past that point, I'm not really that interested in reading about it. I'd rather leave it up to my imagination. Same with Torchwood: The New World. I don't really want to see what happens after what, to me, was the end.