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Loading... Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (2007)by Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty (Illustrator)
None. It's season 8, and full of pretty good writing, but I feel like these "episodes" are fairly nostalgic as opposed to innovative. And call me crazy, but I really think they could have worked harder to capture likenesses in the art. I mean, doesn't Whedon have his pick of anybody on the planet? Why does Xander look like Batman? Why does Amy look like Buffy, and Buffy look like Faith? I miss the show, I do. My first Buffy comic and you know, I was only ever in it for Angel. Of which he's not in this, well, drea sequences don't count. Impossible love and all that noise. That stuff is for the birds. I'm not going to try to sound all scholarly or like an actual reviewer up in here; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight is like crack-laced popcorn to me, and it's impossible for me to be objective. The original teevee series meant a lot to me, and Season Eight feels like an extension of that series -- same cleverness, familiar characters, Monster-of-the-Week style subplots with a Major Big Bad hovering over it all -- and I can't help but love it. I don't know if non-fans would think as highly of it -- maybe having the characters' voices and mannerisms in my head already is an advantage? -- but I finished the first five TPBs in one night, and would have kept going if my library owned the others in the series. It's just nice to see them all again. Xander, I missed you!
It can’t match the best of the TV show, not without the contributions of the actors providing nuance to the dialogue, but it’s a darn sight better than much of season seven and many of the other adventure comics out there today. ContainsThe Long Way Home 1 by Joss Whedon The Long Way Home 2 by Joss Whedon Has the (non-series) prequel
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And call me crazy, but I really think they could have worked harder to capture likenesses in the art. I mean, doesn't Whedon have his pick of anybody on the planet? Why does Xander look like Batman? Why does Amy look like Buffy, and Buffy look like Faith?
I miss the show, I do. (