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I admit, I was nervous about Joss returning to Buffy. Not because I haven't been eager for his return to the Buffyverse, far from it. But I didn't really love Angel (too campy, too many cheap-looking sets, too much soap opera, too much focus on sunlit fantasy instead of gloomy horror) and didn't know which Joss we were going to get here.
It turns out that Season 8 holds up to the best of the original series and is substantially better, in pacing, theme and tone, than the last few seasons. We jump forward in time (apparently about a year) from the 2003 end of the series, find out how much of what we thought we knew about Buffy's fate from the final season of Angel was true and immediately plunge into a new saga that both spins out of what's come before and stands alone as something new and different.
The dialogue is letter-perfect, as it should be, the art is almost perfect (Jeanty, strangely, can't draw a recognizable Andrew, and it took a phone call sequence for me to figure out who he was supposed to be) and Joss uses the unlimited special effects of comics to give us otherworldly menaces with nary a rubber suit in sight.
The worst part of this TPB is that the wait for the next volume will be so long. But that's a good problem to have.
Unreservedly recommended to fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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This is a wonderful book for comic and non comic fans alike. My only complaint was its brevity.
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I was a huge fan of the Buffy TV Series. I really enjoyed these books, especially as Joss Whedon has some involvement. Enjoy!
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Have you wondered what Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles have been up to since Sunnydale imploded? Joss Whedon has the answers. Have you pondered the effect on the world of the sudden existence of countless powerful young women with Slayer powers? Joss knows, and he's willing to share. Has it occurred to you that someone -- or something -- might have survived in the rubble of Sunnydale? You might be surprised by that one.
Did you think it was kind of lame when we learned in "Angel" that Buffy was off bopping in Italy with the powerful Immortal? She wasn't. Whedon handily explains that away -- without messing up the continuity even a bit.
"The Long Way Home" is the first story arc of the new series, and it takes us to the Scottish castle where Buffy hangs her hat as leader of a Slayer commando unit, where Xander acts as a new Watcher and ops coordinator, where Willow takes care of both mystical and technical affairs, and where Dawn -- still kind of whiny, damn it -- parks her very, very, very large sneakers.
Without giving too much away, I'll say that Buffy is hit with a magical assassination attempt and the American military takes an unfriendly view of the Slayer army, which strikes where and when it sees fit without respect to international boundaries. And, to round out the book, there's the very touching and well-imagined stand-alone tale about a very special Slayer with a very unique assignment.
I was pretty sure that nothing would fill the large Buffy-shaped hole in my heart. I'm not sure a new comic series is as good as a new TV series or a string of big-budget films (hint, hint), but it does a far better job than I could have expected. With Joss at the helm, you know the story is good and the specific voices of his beloved characters sound exactly as they should. The art, by Georges Jeanty, falls just short of photorealism; it's beautiful stuff, well drawn and fluid, and the characters are instantly recognizable as the actors who portrayed them.
Buffy the Comic Book has been hit-or-miss over the years. This new incarnation is a bullseye. I can only hope the creative team, led by Whedon, can maintain this outstanding level of quality.
by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(net) editor
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I was a huge fan of the seven seasons of "Buffy" -- even when some people complained about season six I saw exactly how it fit into the overall development of the characters. That developement continues in the graphic series. Rather than buy each separately I got the first five issues in one volume. Well worth the wait and I saved both money and paper in the process. We have the regular cast back -- Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, and even Dawn whose a bigger pain than ever before. I really like how we see some of the new slayers as well as the government reaction to what they preceive to be a new threat. Knowing that the 6th season of "Angel" is also coming to graphic series, I hope we get to see some interactions between the worlds again as we briefly did on the television shows. I look forward to volume 2 of season 8.
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