Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (2007)

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. ( )

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! ( )