Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Season 8, Vol. 1)
by Joss Whedon, Andy Owens, Georges Jeanty
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Read in June, 2008
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Read in March, 2008
For the seven years that it was on television Buffy the Vampire Slayer was my absolute favourite programme. Apart from loving the writing, the fighting and the biting, I think I really, truly fell in love with Buffy herself. (I think it was her incredibly sad eyes that did it.) Whenever I see Sarah Michelle Gellar in other roles now I’m filled with a huge sadness, as if I’d actually had a romantic relationship with Buffy, one that ended amicably, maybe because we moved to different cities. A...more
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Read in July, 2008
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 would have read through the first graphic novel months ago.
Now as a reward for sitting through, with rolling eyes, season 7 I have been given the first graphic novel “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seas...more
Now as a reward for sitting through, with rolling eyes, season 7 I have been given the first graphic novel “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seas...more
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: LONG WAY HOME BY JOSS WHEDON, ET. AL.: For Buffy fans who felt that when the show ended there was still more to be said about the Buffyverse, writer and creator Joss Whedon thankfully has turned to something else he does just as well as TV: comic books. With the first trade of what is officially being called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight” now out, it is clear that there is still much to be told by Whedon about Buffy and her friends.
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recommends it for: Buffy Fans
recommends it for: Buffy Fans
I do not need to say anything to convince fans of the show to keep reading the story that's continued in the Season Eight comics; Willow kicks ass, Xander is all Nick Fury-core, and there are three different Buffys here. Really. Don't ask, just read.
For those who aren't fans, it's hard to explain the appeal. What is great about it is that we fans get to rejoin the Buffy story where it left off, and return to characters we know and love. And, in traditional Buffy form, there are stories...more
For those who aren't fans, it's hard to explain the appeal. What is great about it is that we fans get to rejoin the Buffy story where it left off, and return to characters we know and love. And, in traditional Buffy form, there are stories...more
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Read in December, 2007
Joss Whedon is back on Buffy!!! And that is good.
Having finished watching the last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7 last night (after yet another full run through of that series), I took this collection (collecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight # 1–5) off the shelf where it has been sitting since I picked it up during the aforementioned viewing of the whole tv-series. Sure, it is not quite the same seeing Buffy, Willow and Xander on the comics page, and wh...more
Having finished watching the last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7 last night (after yet another full run through of that series), I took this collection (collecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight # 1–5) off the shelf where it has been sitting since I picked it up during the aforementioned viewing of the whole tv-series. Sure, it is not quite the same seeing Buffy, Willow and Xander on the comics page, and wh...more
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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 patented snappy dialog is in full effect, providing several awesome laugh-out-loud moments.
Small things that bothered me: Amy and a bizarrely resurrected Warren are not the most interesting villians; ...more
Small things that bothered me: Amy and a bizarrely resurrected Warren are not the most interesting villians; ...more
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Read in August, 2007
Despite my great love for "Buffy," I have always avoided the comics and the novels because none of them ever seem to get it right. When I saw the first promo art for this "season eight" of Buffy repelling out of a helicopter wearing an ammo vest and brandishing a futuristic ray gun of some sort, I knew to keep my hopes low. Even with Joss writing new "official canon" stories, I seemed headed for disappointment.
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The bigger "budget" o...more
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Read in November, 2007
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For a comicbook...Pretty damn impressive *spoilers*
Despite Willow's refusal to make an appearance for half the main arc I was very impressed with the amount of thought put into this 'book'.
They bring back old villains (AmyWarren) at deliciously cliffhangery times, Whedon gets the balance ABSOLUTELY right for the EvilDialogue in that the BigBads are self mocking.
The artwork was beautiful, but the covers are so far superior that you notice the difference and feel disappointed EVERY ti...more
Despite Willow's refusal to make an appearance for half the main arc I was very impressed with the amount of thought put into this 'book'.
They bring back old villains (AmyWarren) at deliciously cliffhangery times, Whedon gets the balance ABSOLUTELY right for the EvilDialogue in that the BigBads are self mocking.
The artwork was beautiful, but the covers are so far superior that you notice the difference and feel disappointed EVERY ti...more
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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 images are fantastic, lending more to the storylines with the freedom of imaginative art and none of the pesky problems associated with live actors and television (such as gravity, depth of perception, li...more
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Read in February, 2008
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Read in August, 2008
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recommends it for: Tamara, TJ, other Buffy fans
recommends it for: Tamara, TJ, other Buffy fans
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.
This trade paperback collects the first several issues of the newly-sanctioned, Joss Whedon-written and approved "Season 8" comic book. Whedon's trademark gift for gab is delightfully present, as were most of my favorite characters. His Buffy, Xander, and Willow are spot-o...more
This trade paperback collects the first several issues of the newly-sanctioned, Joss Whedon-written and approved "Season 8" comic book. Whedon's trademark gift for gab is delightfully present, as were most of my favorite characters. His Buffy, Xander, and Willow are spot-o...more
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I'm kind of disappointed--the comic version was hard to follow and it seemed like much more of an emphasis was placed on 'ooh, how much skin can we show' than how much character development & plot we can have. There's no development, the plot is very fuzzy and short, and we're just given more questions and no answers. I want to know what happened to Willow and Dawn and Xander and what the gang's been up to, instead of more bloody battles and what the heck, FAIRIES? I mean...there's demons...more
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Read in October, 2007
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I am tremendously frustrated by waiting for a story to complete. It's one reason I don't like watching TV shows that don't have a few seasons on DVD already. Anyway, I can imagine how frustrated I would be by these issues if I'd read them one at a time. I'm still a little impatient that I don't know what's going on yet. Also, especially in comic form, where you can read every speech bubble, it's hard for me to be able to filter out little "clues" that are going to come back later w...more
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Read in July, 2008
I would prefer if I had liked it a little more. Three stars is a little misleading, but it's not really worth four. For one thing, the art is all over the place, and while it may seem silly to complain that this Buffy doesn't look like Sarah Michelle Gellar, I spent seven seasons watching one that did, so it's a little disorienting. All their faces are sort of made up of these flat, flesh-colored planes, which leads to considerably less expressiveness. It is, however, a massive step up from the ...more
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Read in December, 2007
What with NaNo and fandom troubles, it's been a long time since I read anything (and even now it might be mostly manga due to their shortness). I've had Whedon's season 8 of Buffy as scans for a while but not read them before. Already on page three or so I laughed myself into a happier mood with the reference to the Italian episode where Spike and Angel had SPOILER actually fallen for Andrews joke and not seen the "real" Buffy and yeah, I also find that retro-fixing funny SPOILER END. ...more
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Read in July, 2008
True confessions time: I was a BtVS fangirl.
So you can imagine my joy when I discovered that Joss Whedon had continued the now-defunct series in comic form -- not a spinoff, but a real continuation that picks up where the seventh (and final) season ended in 2003.
Volumes 1 & 2 of Season 8 arrived from Amazon yesterday, and I read them both in one sitting... and discovered that I do not know how to read comic books. I'm a quick study; I'll figure it out. But I'm so darn text-oriented, ...more
So you can imagine my joy when I discovered that Joss Whedon had continued the now-defunct series in comic form -- not a spinoff, but a real continuation that picks up where the seventh (and final) season ended in 2003.
Volumes 1 & 2 of Season 8 arrived from Amazon yesterday, and I read them both in one sitting... and discovered that I do not know how to read comic books. I'm a quick study; I'll figure it out. But I'm so darn text-oriented, ...more
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Read in June, 2007
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Read in January, 2008
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While I love Buffy and miss seeing new episodes and I'm desperately waiting for the season 7 dvd-box to get here, I'm not completely blown away by this graphic novel.
I liked it, I liked reading about Buffy again, I loved the Joss Wedon humor showing everywhere in cool lines and the pink teddybear one of the slayers carries with her to battle etc - but it didn't feel completely right. Even though I could sometimes hear the actors saying the lines out loud in my head, I still missed them. And ad...more
I liked it, I liked reading about Buffy again, I loved the Joss Wedon humor showing everywhere in cool lines and the pink teddybear one of the slayers carries with her to battle etc - but it didn't feel completely right. Even though I could sometimes hear the actors saying the lines out loud in my head, I still missed them. And ad...more
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