Because as everyone knows, comic book nerds live for wednesdays, unfortunately there's only one book coming out this week that I'm grabbing so what's usually a little list is going to get explored a little more and become a blurb...
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON 8 #27 - Slayers are out. Vampires are in. Mysterious big bad Twilight has just become a bigger bad -- he can zero in on Team Buffy and her army of Slayers by tracking their use of magic. But Buffy and her allies have taken their submarine -- yes, Buffy picked up one of those . . . they're a necessary piece of equip -- straight to the only person she knows with an inside track on suppressing magic: the werewolf Oz.
In the yak-filled mountains of Tibet, Oz has found his peace and formed a new life. The butter tea flows freely at the reunion, where -- among other fun reunion-y things -- Buffy learns that suppressing her demon side could be the biggest risk of all . . . -
BtvS has consistently been a solid read (although it's had a couple instances where it's fumbled) since it's release and it's finally treading ground how I hoped it would. Oz was always one of my favorite characters, and due to a budding film career actor Seth Green was no longer able to take part in the show and left. Thanks to the world of comics, Oz finally makes his return to the Buffyverse in a way that makes sense and can actually happen due to there being nothing stopping him from being there.
As a writer so far Jane Espenson has been hit or miss, lately she's been more on the hit side. So I'm hoping that now that she's gotten back into writing the characters she's become comfortable with them again and really starts to knock it out of the park.
My main complaint with the Buffy comic (and it's not even that bad), is Georges Jeanty's art. Now Georges is a fantastic artist, but his characters don't look like the characters as they were portrayed in the show.
In the yak-filled mountains of Tibet, Oz has found his peace and formed a new life. The butter tea flows freely at the reunion, where -- among other fun reunion-y things -- Buffy learns that suppressing her demon side could be the biggest risk of all . . . -
BtvS has consistently been a solid read (although it's had a couple instances where it's fumbled) since it's release and it's finally treading ground how I hoped it would. Oz was always one of my favorite characters, and due to a budding film career actor Seth Green was no longer able to take part in the show and left. Thanks to the world of comics, Oz finally makes his return to the Buffyverse in a way that makes sense and can actually happen due to there being nothing stopping him from being there.
As a writer so far Jane Espenson has been hit or miss, lately she's been more on the hit side. So I'm hoping that now that she's gotten back into writing the characters she's become comfortable with them again and really starts to knock it out of the park.
My main complaint with the Buffy comic (and it's not even that bad), is Georges Jeanty's art. Now Georges is a fantastic artist, but his characters don't look like the characters as they were portrayed in the show.
While Jeanty's Giles and sometimes Faith are usually spot on, the other characters only flirt with recognizability throughout the series, which is a shame when compared to artist Jo Chen's beautiful painted covers.
I don't want this to sound like I'm being hyper critical of Georges' work, because I think it's great. I even have a Buffy sketch by him from a convention last year.
But Dark Horse, even you Joss, it wouldn't hurt to send him a couple seasons on dvd.
But Dark Horse, even you Joss, it wouldn't hurt to send him a couple seasons on dvd.
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