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  <title><![CDATA[Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Season 8, Vol. 1)]]></title>
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  <default_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. Meanwhile, one of the &quot;Buffy&quot; 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 #1-5 are collected here for the first time, as are their covers by Jo Chen and Georges Jeanty.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">31</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">10</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Season 8, Vol. 1)</original_title>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 07:41:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a big Buffy and Joss Whedon fan, I really, really wanted to love this and expected to be giving it five stars, but I was somewhat disappointed.  First, the good -- it's a fun and fast-paced read, the art is excellent overall, and it's of course great to see these characters again.  Whedon's paten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20570331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16395966">
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 26 05:22:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 27 08:09:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a late convert to Buffy--Season 7 to be exact. My ex LOVED the series, and initially I scoffed. But with his help, and armed with previous seasons on DVD, I too fell in love with these wonderful characters. <br/><br/>This trade paperback collects the first several issues of the newly-sanctio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16395966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11301913">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 30 17:20:20 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 30 17:22:33 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally got my hands on some Buffy comics, which totally exposes my nerddom, but I can't hold it in.<br/><br/>This collection of the first four comics of the &quot;Season 8&quot; series are shocking and interesting, going places the television show never could while remaining true to the charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11301913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73423815">
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 04 12:56:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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. <br/><br/>'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73423815">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 try...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64263436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60778377">
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 23 08:19:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say, the first story arc of Season 8 really isn't that interesting.  My favorite story in the bunch was the final one - it was the only one that had any genuine emotion.  Buffy says she's isolated, but we don't really feel her isolation; there's a lot of exposition about what all of the Sc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60778377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57603728">
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  <read_at>Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 28 07:10:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 28 07:14:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Long Way Home doesn't start exactly where the last television season of Buffy left off, instead it starts a little past that, after Buffy and her crew have restarted their lives. In some ways, things are very different, but in others, they're exactly the same. Each character seems to have taken ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57603728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55968389">
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  <read_at>Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 13 21:04:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Season 8 arc works a little better when you read it as a whole vs. each individual issue. But I still have many issues. I'm very glad with how the did the whole &quot;Immortal&quot; backtrack, I still think that was one of the worst episode of Angel EVER. Some of the drawings of the charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55968389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Kj]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 07 23:26:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As what I believe is the first case of a television show continuing as comic book (this first batch of comics is called Season 8, just as if it were the next series of episodes), this breaks all kinds of creative ground, and of course has the potential to step into some pot holes as it forges its wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39030380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 rel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59792754">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 youth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69228251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45796000">
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    <name><![CDATA[Luann]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would MUCH rather watch Buffy Season 8 on TV!  But since that isn't ever going to happen, I finally broke down and bought the first two volumes of the graphic novel.  I really haven't read many comic books or graphic novels - except for Firefly, now Buffy, and probably Angel at some point in the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45796000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44987380">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so after reading some of the misogynistic crap in Alan Moore's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen" title="Watchmen by Alan Moore">Watchmen</a>, I had to go back to an old female friendly favorite.<br/><br/>I must admit, when I read the first issue, it was nothing like I expected the continuation of the series to be. At first I was horrified to think that I wasn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44987380">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 24 15:16:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[     I actually have the original individuals, but this is easier to review.<br/>    Frankly, these kick ass and the only reason they don't get five stars is because each issue is so short it hardly takes any time to read. I have them all through issue sixteen or eighteen, and that's the way to go;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44209015">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59152014">
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    <body><![CDATA[Buffy is back and now we see the story after Sunnydale is gone. Buffy is still having trouble with her new role. We had hope that she would feel connected and now she has a new issue. She is the leader of a band of Slayers and there is something after them all. The Gov't regards them as terrorists a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59152014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40793432">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this show and the syndication in my area seems to have timed out so I was thrilled to find these graphic novels at my local library.  They are co-written by the shows creator, Joss Whedon, so there is a great deal of the droll humor that attracted me to the show in the first place.  The imag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33072110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were actually only 5 or maybe 6 seasons of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, or at least there should have been. The final televised season 7 was so poorly written and sloppily executed I just wanted to skip it all together. If it wasn’t for the threats of not getting Season 8 comic books I wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29834471">more...</a>]]></body>
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