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Summary: A must read for fans of 'Buffy'
Review: This is a great book for 'Buffy' fans looking to explore more of the backstories on Slayers past and future. This volume presents 8, easily digestible, tales encompassing time periods from the 'Original' Slayer, Medeival Europe, The Wild West, Nazi Germany, NYC in the 70's and even a futuristic tomorrow. The quality of each tale shines through as most are written by writers from the actual TV show - Whedon, Jane Espenson, Doug Petrie, etc. Of equal quality is the artwork - different artists were used for each story giving each tale a unique sense of visual style. Particularly interesting is Mira Friedman's almost woodblock approach on the Nazi-era, 'Sonnenblume,' and Gene Colan's 1970's flair on 'Nikki Goes Down!'
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Summary: whedon & co. continue to astonish
Review: Truthfully, I haven't really sat down to read a comic of any kind in years. And after perusing a copy of a friend's issue of "Heavy Metal", I understood why: many of the comics out there contain incomprehensible story lines which, being devoid of the long history of BtVS, are meaningless and strange for the sake being strange. Not to mention an excuse to draw nekkid peoples (not that I necessarliy mind, but come on!). Emphatically not so with this gem of a comic. If I had known nothing of The Buff Buff, I still would have been eerily mesmerised by this smart and expertly drawn collection of Slayer stories. It begins with rejection and isolation and ends with a sense of history and community. Like the Buddhist legends of old, the reader is treated to a different aspect of the same, eternal heroine. Without exception, each character displays a new wrinkle on the themes of character and courage amidst exigent circumstances. And, it intelligently recognizes why Buffy embodied the best characteristics of each Slayer: their toughness, their dedication and wit, their maturing compassion towards all creatures, their combative style, and their reconciliation with death as a transfigurative agent, and not merely a destructive one. Personal favorites of the eight macabre tales presented here are "Righteous" (penned by the sainted Mr. Whedon himself), "The Glittering World", and "Sonnenblume." "Righteous", the first story following a featured appearance by the First Slayer, concerns a young girl who justifies her duty to fulfill the role of the Slayer with her devotion to Christ, and is written entirely in a poetic narrative. "The Glittering World" is a rumination on the cyclic necessity of death, revisiting mythologist Joseph Campbell's examination of death amd rebirth as an essential process in the hero's journey. And "Sonnenblume" examines the Third Reich through the watercolor-crayon prism of a young German girl, who begins to instinctually define the true meaning of evil. All in all, a brilliant series of short stories which entertain and inform, very much like the actual show itself.
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Summary: these 'tales' are barely anecdotes
Review: While it's fun to imagine the Slayer in her various incarnations, this volume at a slim 80 pages, took me about 15 minutes to read, and was a very light slayer snack- at best.The stories are short, some of them are boring & it is certainly NOT worth the money! Not recommended!
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