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Summary: The Secret Tales Of The Slayer
Review: The Remaining Sunlight trade paperback, collects the first three issues of the Dark Horse comic book series, of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The entire collection takes place at the time of the show's third season. At this point, Buffy and her friends are still attending Sunnydale High School, and Angel, hasn't left for LA yet.THE ADVENTURES in the book-Wu Tang Fang-The Slayer and the Scooby gang must stop a powerful creature that has decided to feed on the Karate Students of Sunnydale. Halloween-Willow is taken and held hostage by a group of vampires on mischief night. As Buffy mounts a rescue, she encounters a few tricks and treats along the way. Cold Turkey-A simple trip to buy food for Thanksgiving, turns dangerous, as Buffy battles a demon, in order to prevent her goose from being cooked. All 3 stories were written by Andi Watson and really do a good job in capturing the characters and their traits. The author also has a handle on the now famous "Buffy Speak" that has become a series trademark. As a bonus, the book also features the Slayer's first comic book appearance called Macguffins. This 10 page short story was first published in black and white in a Dark Horse Anthology. Written by J.L. Van Meter, the story has Giles giving his Slayer a present. She is put to the test when the 2 critters get loose and begin to cause trouble. THE ART-These duties fell upon penciler Joe Bennet and inker Rick Ketcham. For the most part, I have to say, I found the renditions of the regular characters to be a bit uneven and the other wordly vamps/creatures to be a bit plain as well. Since these stories represent the start of the comics, I guess they were sill feeling their way around artistically. Although, the art for Macguffins by Luke Ross and Rick Ketcham, was more on target with the "reality" of the T.V. series, go figure. All in all, I enjoyed my first forray into the world of Buffy comics. I recommend this book to any person that enjoys the television series. I know I will be on the lookout for more collections like this.
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Summary: The artwork isn't incredible but it is an important trade
Review: This trade collects issues 1-3 of the Buffy comic series. The artwork is rather messy and seems hurried at times but the characters look fairly like they should (allthough no one seems to be able to capture Buffy as well as they should). The first issue is "Wu-Tang Fang" where Xander takes martial arts classes to be a better help in the Scooby gang. If there's one thing the comics get right its the friendly banter between the characters. I don't know why the vampires are all green skinned though. Next is "Halloween" where we meet Slke the vampire for the first time (she's important in later issues and trades). Willow and her mom have an argument about Oz and she leaves the house in the dark of the night only to be picked up by Selke and her friends. Buffy stakes Selke and her friends but somehow Selke survives. The issue finishes off with poor Xander dealing with a candy overdose. :) Then we have "Cold Turkey" (the comics love to have these holiday themes, I guess) where Buffy must shop for thanksgiving AND fight a vampire. Lastly there is a short story called "MacGuffins" which is rather pointless and about some test Giles sends Buffy in the form of annoying little creatures. Good for the serious collector who doesn't have the original appearance of the story. The writing is almost always good and that makes up for the artwork. It is really hard to capture characters that we already know every aspect of so thumbs up for the attempt.
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Summary: The artwork isn't incredible but it is an important trade
Review: This trade collects issues 1-3 of the Buffy comic series. The artwork is rather messy and seems hurried at times but the characters look fairly like they should (allthough no one seems to be able to capture Buffy as well as they should). The first issue is "Wu-Tang Fang" where Xander takes martial arts classes to be a better help in the Scooby gang. If there's one thing the comics get right its the friendly banter between the characters. I don't know why the vampires are all green skinned though. Next is "Halloween" where we meet Slke the vampire for the first time (she's important in later issues and trades). Willow and her mom have an argument about Oz and she leaves the house in the dark of the night only to be picked up by Selke and her friends. Buffy stakes Selke and her friends but somehow Selke survives. The issue finishes off with poor Xander dealing with a candy overdose. :) Then we have "Cold Turkey" (the comics love to have these holiday themes, I guess) where Buffy must shop for thanksgiving AND fight a vampire. Lastly there is a short story called "MacGuffins" which is rather pointless and about some test Giles sends Buffy in the form of annoying little creatures. Good for the serious collector who doesn't have the original appearance of the story. The writing is almost always good and that makes up for the artwork. It is really hard to capture characters that we already know every aspect of so thumbs up for the attempt.
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Summary: Great Graphic Novel!
Review: This was a great graphic novel with Buffy in it. I've read the comics and I find the books, the show, and the comics great! This is number one on my list!
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