I don't think I personally would care that much; I already hat S8 in general so much that I can think of very few things they could do that would make me hate the comics more. (In fact, I can think of precisely two: kill Spike, and kill Dawn.) Heck, they killed off Giles and I barely blinked, even though I fell in love with the Faith/Giles ship specifically through the comics. (The one good thing to come out of them, as far as I'm concerned.)

That said, if the comics did awful, awful things to Spuffy (or more awful, anyway; I strongly dislike Spuffy as it stands in the comics now), I expect the fannish implosion to follow would be pretty awful. I was just thinking the other day how wonderfully peaceful it was around these parts, with no comics-related discussion. I really just wish they would never come back

(However: both LJ and DW now have options to opt in/out of viewing various of your friends' tags on your flist. If I'm meticulous about it, I might be able to just never seen comics discussion on my flist again. \o/ )