About this title: Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers - newly legion - have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. Meanwhile, one of the "Buffy" decoy slayers is going through major pain of her own. Buffy creator Joss Whedon brings Buffy back to Dark Horse in this direct follow-up to season seven of the smash-hit TV series. The bestselling and critically acclaimed issues numbered 1-5 are collected here for the first time, as are their covers by Jo Chen and ...
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Edition: illustrated edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Date Published: 10/31/2007
ISBN-13:9781593078225ISBN:1593078226
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, Canada
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781593078225ISBN:1593078226
Description: Jeanty, Georges, and Owens, Andy, and Chen, Jo. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Not as pictured, Clean with tight binding and light moisture wear to bottom edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 136 p. Contains: Illustrations. Buffy the Vampire Slayer GN (Dark Horse). Audience: General/trade. Ships from US-NE. Support Independent Booksellers! Omahabooks offers same or next day shipping-satisfaction guaranteed. Priority, Expedited, APO, International may require additional postage-contact ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781593078225ISBN:1593078226
Description: Jeanty, Georges, and Owens, Andy, and Chen, Jo. New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 136 p. Contains: Illustrations. Buffy the Vampire Slayer GN (Dark Horse). read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781593078225ISBN:1593078226
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Date Published: 2007-11-14
ISBN-13:9781593078225ISBN:1593078226
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Description: Good. By Joss Whedon; ISBN: 1593078226; Pub. : Dark Horse Comics; Pub. Date: 2007-10-31; Media: Paperback; Weight: 10.4 oz.; Used book in good condition. Ships fast when you click expedited. by Joss Whedon; ISBN: 1593078226; Pub. : Dark Horse Comics; Pub. Date: 2007-10-31; Media: Paperback; Weight: 10.4 oz.; Used book in good condition. Ships fast when you click expedited. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781593078225ISBN:1593078226
Description: Jeanty, Georges, and Owens, Andy, and Chen, Jo. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. The exciting start of the Buffy graphic novels. The pages are very clean and the binding is tight. There is some slight wear from shelf use. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 136 p. Contains: Illustrations. Buffy the Vampire Slayer GN (Dark Horse). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, U. S
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781593078225ISBN:1593078226
Description: Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers-newly legion-have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. read more
"Unengaging graphic sequel - apparently the first 'episodes' in a notional Season 8 - to the TV Series, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. It misses the point - the Buffy series was fantasy, sure, but it was also about the psychological development of, and the tensions within, its Scooby Gang.
'Season 8' (at least based on reading this first volume) is filled with stereotypes and seems a forced attempt to drive the 'girl power' message of the last minutes of the final show of Season 7 to ridiculous lengths. Much of this comic is just silly, portentous and disconnected.
It also gives us a clue as to why Joss Whedon literally lost the plot with Firefly, less so with Serenity, when he tried to paint on a much bigger canvas. The point was that Buffy was not such a big canvas in time and space when you got down to it.
It was a small town living under the shadow of many dimensions and, as HP Lovecraft and Stephen King have both shown us, a relatively tight 'real' universe can often be more effective at making us believe in cosmic horrors than a world of limitless fantasy ... perhaps Whedon should leave big fantasy to the top graphic design 'auteurs' like Alan Moore and Mike Mignola who can create characters and situations that are limitless from the start.
The novel is also ridiculously expensive for what it is. There is something irritating about a marketing mentality that hooks kids on a product and then prises £11.99 of their pocket money for something so unstimulating. It feels like exploitation.
Perhaps it gets much better in Volume 2 (and afterwards) but I am not going to bother to find out. I don't believe in completism for its own sake.
If Whedon cannot continue the story on the small screen in episodic form, then I, for one, will be happy to close the mythos with the Scooby Gang (minus Anya) standing by their commandeered school bus, looking down into the gaping hole that was Sunnydale and the (presumed) vapourised grave of the redeemed Spike. And so it goes ...."
"Well, I have to say I wasn't expecting to enjoy this book as much as I did. I admit it. I have a prejudice against graphic novels, but this is a success due to Joss Whedon's snappy writing and Georges Jeanty's beautiful artwork. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon and Allyson Hannigan's youthful appearance are forever preserved within the pages of this novel as the action takes place right at the end of the series' final season.
"The Long Way Home" is actually a compilation of comic books previously released and the cover art for each appears at the back of the book. There is also a mini story called "The Chain" which explores the Buffy decoy storylines originally introduced in the television series. The story is tragic and has Whedon's magic touch, weaving the camp with the drama flawlessly.
I had a hard time following the action at first because it was difficult to tell what was real and what was Buffy's fantasies. Reading these were like watching the series all over again and, as a fan, I really appreciated that. I do wonder why Joss Whedon hasn't developed another series, another alternative universe apart from Buffy's world. Could he perhaps be obssessed with the slayer?
Great story for those who asked themselves what happened after the series ended."
"Fantastic artwork, particularly for the main characters (Buffy, Willow, Xander). The facial expressions are often perfectly matched to the actors who portrayed them. But the artwork for a lot of the minor characters is not as exact (which I suspect is on purpose) which doesn't help when you're trying to remember who all these people are. The Long Way Home resurrects a lot of characters that were long gone even as the series ended in 2003. I pretty much remembered--and sometimes guessed--who they were and what function they played in the series, but it's been a while! The dialogue is the right Whedon-esque mix of snappy one-liners and exposition. Occasionally a character says something that jumps out at you in the actor's voice, which was fun. Story-wise, I'm not sure there's enough action to really jump-start a new season (Volume 1 is a collection of four or five comic books, I believe). It feels like they drag out things that would never fly as long-term storylines on TV: Who woke Buffy from the true-love spell? Where did Willow disappear for a whole freaking year? When will Dawn get back to normal-human-size? And hey, where is Giles and why isn't he more involved? My biggest question: where did the Scooby Gang get all the money to run a super-secret super-high-tech worldwide operation? Did the Watcher's Council set up a trust fund before they got blown up back in the series-days? Did they perhaps, as my brother suggested, sell off valuable demon artifacts to raise the cash? I suppose my one other quibble with the multiple-slayer storyline is that there are just too many slayers--thousands, apparently--which makes them interchangeable and expendable. I would much rather they focus on a group of, say, a few hundred! Perhaps that is where the comics could eventually take us: to a paring down of the slayer group, cycling back to the days when there was only one girl. That would make a nice conclusion, I think, as Buffy heads off into the sunset, or the grave, for the last time, to complete the Slayer saga."
"Buffy the TV series ended with a good solid bang (I'm referring here to the distribution of slayer power, not whatever may have happened with Spike in the basement), but if you are a Buffy addict you always want more. Enter the Buffy comics, which contain all the snappy dialogue and lighthearted relationships of the early TV seasons and (so far) very little of the make-you-want-to-defenestrate emotional vortexes of the later seasons. Plus, it's all drawn instead of real, so Xander is skinny again. Although Willow still inexplicably dresses like a Ren Faire reject.
Amy puts Buffy into a mystical coma that can only be broken by the kiss of true love...
Xander: "So this doesn't have to be someone she's in love with."
Amy: "No, I said. Just someone truly in love with her."
Xander: "But not friend-love."
Amy: "Right. Someone who wants to kiss her, like, they're passionate about her."
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