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I just got this collection of the first arc a few days ago, and I am sooooo glad I finally get to find out what happened to the Scoobies after Buffy (and the world as we know it?) ended. The "big bad" villains here are familiar faces that still manage to surprise you, and there's also a continuing subplot about a shadowy group known only as "Twilight" which we'll hopefully find out more about in future issues.
I know I'm supposed to be reviewing the comic here, but I can't resist using this as a forum to plea generally for Joss Whedon to continue all of his beloved ended/abruptly canceled for no damn good reason shows with this medium. I know "Angel" has already gotten the treatment, but I really hope that "Firefly" will follow . . . preferably skipping over the events in "Serenity" . . .
It's nice when people truly appreciate their fans. I never mind lining Joss's pockets, and if he continues to put out fantastic quality products like this long-anticipated (at least by me) continuation of the Buffy cannon, I will continue to help him add to his kid's college fund. Long live Joss!!
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To be fair, this was the first "comic book" I've read since I was a child, since long before comic books became graphic novels. I think the old comics were better. You could tell which frame led to which frame. Stories were completed or at least stopped at a good place until the next issue came out. Or maybe I've just been too long a reader to get any great thrill from looking at pictures.
I expected anything written by Joss Whedon to be very special, like Buffy and Angel, but this was, instead, very sophmoric. Maybe that is the function of grapnic novels, for adults with talent to have some kind of sophmoric outlet, like laser tag or paintball, like the old pulp magazines which provided light reading for people whose reading tastes were usually very serious; I'm talking Zane Grey to Proust.
I'd like to think that any reading is of some value, but this . . . ?
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Listen, I am a HUGE Buffy fan; that is a given. But I'm also a fan of graphic novels (and comics in general), and I was really disappointed by Season 8, Vol 1 as a graphic novel. If the problems here are typical, then it's really clear why there was so much criticism of Joss' Xmen comics. The pacing is very tv-script-ish, with unartistic and needless cuts back and forth between the action--and pauses for commercial breaks. While rapid cutting can work in graphic novels (hello, Planetary), it fails utterly here. Joss also seems limited by the format, rather than liberated; most of the framing and imagery was pedestrian and commercial at best. So, sure, read it because you want to know what happens in Season 8--but not because it's a great graphic novel.
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I was so looking forward to more Buffy. But I found this collection scattered and lacking in the character and depth of the show. The art is beautiful, and the basic ideas are OK, but the story is scattered and confusing. And though the 'future world' for Buffy and friends is neat, I was sad to see Buffy and Willow (and Xander in his own way) relagated to simple superheroes instead of richly charactered, complex people who had greatness thrust upon them. Still, I'll be back for more.
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Its pretty much the most amazing thing to have happened to Buffy-philes. Joss is genius. That is all.
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