Buffy’s back

other Slayers. Bad enough we were subjected to the faux-cockney slayer in the last season (the writers clearly hadn’t spent much time in London), but now we have an apparently German slayer, a possibly Scottish one and maybe an Irish one – and the old practice of writing like you think it sounds here feels, well, amateurish and kind of stupid. And I don’t think Joss Whedon is either of those things.

It’s like Whedon just read some early Gambit appearances and learned how to write from them.

Yeesh.

Finally, there’s Buffy herself. Apparently she’s fighting with Dawn again (nothing new there, but they had reconciled somewhat at the end of the show), but she’s also doing that moping thing she does so well which turned her into a weak link on her own TV show in Season 6 and the latter half of Season 7, which is slightly disappointing.

Oh, and she misses sex. A lot. Although I’m not too surprised at that as if I recall, she and Spike didn’t sleep together in Season 7. Well they slept together, but they didn’t sleep together.

What we’re not too clear on is whether she’s aware that Spike is alive – presumably as Andrew is in Italy at the moment, he knows – or what she really thinks about Angel running an eeeevil law firm. That may be deliberate as Dark Horse don’t have the rights to the Angel characters – although presumably characters that originated in Buffy, like Angel and Spike themselves, are fair game.

Misgivings aside this is a pretty decent comic – just not one that lives up to its own hype yet. I have hopes that it will do in time but right now it’s a work in progress.

And yes, I bought both covers.

Tags: Art, Buffy, Dark Horse, TV-Archived, variants

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