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Summary: I thought it was really good.
Review: It was intresing to see the buffy charecters as cartoons
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Summary: Brereton tells a Buffy story could only come out in a comic.
Review: The Good: -The art is all to the good. The graphics and color are clean and appealing, and Hector Gomez (who's been out of comic-dom for about 2 years) does a better job overall (IMO) than does Joe Bennet, who works on the main series (at least when it comes to drawing the guys... Xander looks too old and grungy in the main series).-Brereton knows the series, and the characters, and really has a lot of affection for them. Brereton's main passion is a series called the Nocturnals, which he both draws and writes script for -- so he knows the genre. -Brereton proposes several interesting ideas in the Dust Waltz. -Giles niece ('Death Wish Spice') was pretty cool :) -Lilith comments that 'no good has ever come from one of our Kind feeding on a Slayer' -- she cites the Master's failure as an example. -And Lilith can show up again later, which is all to the good :) The Bad: Plot holes you could drive Oz's van through. -Lilith thinks that the Slayer is dead, but also knows that 'her son' the Master is dead. The Master was killed BY the Slayer, so what's the Flum? Seems awfully weak. The Annoying: I appreciate that Brereton likes the show, and watches it with his family every week, but I became increasingly annoyed by the constant show references in this story -- some is good, too much is TOO much -- it stopped feeling like conversation from the characters and started feeling like the author saying 'See? I know the show!' Logic jumps with nowhere to land. Some of the characters (notably Giles' niece) do some things that had no support in the story. The Summary: -If I sound overly harsh above, that's only because I /am/ being overly harsh. I admit that, and I think I know why: I'm used to analyzing a Buffy story line ad nauseum and finding it essentially airtight -- this works fine with the show, because JOSS analyzes everything for airtightness too. This doesn't work on the comics as well, because while Joss signs off on the concepts, he isn't involved with the story itself, so you get holes, logic problems, annoying character things, and timeline goofs. Brereton ain't Joss, and he ain't never gonna BE Joss. I can forgive him for this, because he really did do a good job, and if he, like all the script writers for the show, had had Joss there to go over the story, his story would have been as airtight -- the fact that Joss isn't there isn't his fault :) Because the book /is/ good. The story is solid, and presents some fun ideas, even if they aren't strictly canon. The art is great -- both accurate (more so in some places than the comic series, especially with Xander) and visually exciting. The only problem I had with the Big Monster is that there wasn't ENOUGH of him -- Brereton /did/ do a good job of telling a legitimate Buffy story that we HAVE to see in a comic, because we could never really see it in the show... or in a Movie, for that matter. The characterization of the show's main characters (Scooby Crew et al., Cordelia, Giles) were all good. Basically, if I take a step back from the comic and put down the magnifying glass that I usually pull up to go over an episode on the second viewing, than I really, really, enjoy the Dust Waltz. Your Mileage May Vary, so I'd suggest picking up a copy. :)
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Summary: BODACIOUSLY BRILLIANT
Review: THIS BOOK IS COOL. IT IS A MUST FOR A BUFFY FA
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Summary: A WONDERFUL READ FROM BEGINNING TO END
Review: This book proved to be just as good as most of the other Buffy novelizations. If you've read most or all of the other Buffy books, I reccomend you read this one. Although it's written by different authors than the other books I found it to be just as good.
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Summary: The best
Review: This graphic novel was the best out of all I've read. Excellent story line and very entertaining for all.
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Summary: Okay
Review: This original trade paperback so it doesn't have a mini series type equivalent as far as I know. It introduces Giles' niece as well as dealing with a feud between two ancienct sisters. I really didn't like it that much. There was a lot of fighting and not much character interaction. The artwork is okay but not good enough to make up for what I thought was a contrived story. Demons come to town, demons make trouble, Buffy gets rid of demons. The stuff that is supposed to make it worthwhile is something more than having Xander like Giles' niece. Comics let you do so much with a story, this plays out like the sort of episode you'd skip because it is so formulaic -- stick demon here, mix with a bit of history. . .nothing new. I would buy it again, however, because I'm a completist. Lots of people like this trade so if you want to read a story that does nothing to further the characters, this is it.
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Summary: Okay
Review: This original trade paperback so it doesn't have a mini series type equivalent as far as I know. It introduces Giles' niece as well as dealing with a feud between two ancienct sisters. I really didn't like it that much. There was a lot of fighting and not much character interaction. The artwork is okay but not good enough to make up for what I thought was a contrived story. Demons come to town, demons make trouble, Buffy gets rid of demons. The stuff that is supposed to make it worthwhile is something more than having Xander like Giles' niece. Comics let you do so much with a story, this plays out like the sort of episode you'd skip because it is so formulaic -- stick demon here, mix with a bit of history. . .nothing new. I would buy it again, however, because I'm a completist. Lots of people like this trade so if you want to read a story that does nothing to further the characters, this is it.
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Summary: BUFFY KICKS VAMPIRE BUTT IN THIS ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL!!
Review: When word got out that Dark Horse was looking for writers for the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, Dan Brereton didn't waste any time penning a complete series for the editor to peruse. Like his previous work on The Nocturnals and Thrillkiller '62, Brereton's scripts for Buffy were impressive - so much so in fact, that the editorial staff decided to premiere The Dust Waltz in its entirety as a graphic novel. Buffy Summers and her group of close-knit friends are the first in Sunnydale to notice the curious newcomers who arrive late one day by boat. A strange, hooded woman and an enormous man covered in Maori tribal tattoos would be enough to attract anyone's attention, but Buffy and her friends know that folks like this don't come to Sunnydale to sample the produce - they come to invoke the powers of the Hellmouth. And if Giles knows his stuff, they've also come to stage The Dust Waltz - a sinister celebration that begins with a battle to the death between creatures of the night and ends with the opening of the gateway to Hell! "The Dust Waltz is a sort of exercise in making the best one can of the medium of comics for the sake of pure adventure and fun in storytelling," said Brereton. "All the things the television program can't do because of budgetary restraints, we can play with in comics. I have a much richer palette, in many ways, to draw from as a comics writer, and Buffy is the sort of project that cries out for comics." Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz is a thrilling graphic novel, written by the young godfather of Monster Noir, Dan Brereton, featuring art by Hector Gomez, inks by Sandu Florea, and colors by Guy Major.
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