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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Time Of Your Life (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #4)
Willow and Buffy head to New York City to unlock the secrets of Buffy's mysterious scythe, when something goes terribly awry. Buffy is propelled into a dystopian future where there's only one Slayer - Fray, the title character of Joss Whedon's 2001 series, the first comic he ever wrote. Their uneasy alliance falls apart, leading to the death of a major character from the T...more
Paperback, 136 pages
Published
June 2nd 2009
by Dark Horse
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David
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These "Season Eight" trade paperbacks/episodes are entertaining and capture a little of the old feel of the series, but so far they've all been good but not great. In book four, Buffy goes to the future and meets Fray, the sole surviving Slayer. In the grand tradition of every time traveling superhero comic book story ever, the two of them have to fight each other. Also, we meet Dark Willow (again). Normally I'd say this entire subplot seemed a little bit pointless, though entertaining...more
Quarto volume dell’ottava stagione della cacciatrice creata da Whedon.
Un volume nel quale ricompare un’altra creatura di Whedon, Melaka, la Cacciatrice del futuro creata da Whedon nel 2001 per la Dark Horse.
Willow ha ricevuto una dritta dall’entità rettiloide che l’ha già aiutata in passato, e per questo si reca a New York con Buffy lasciando Xander alla base con le cacciatrici.
Xander si troverà bersagliato dall’ennesimo attacco di Warren e Amy, con il castello colpito da...more
Un volume nel quale ricompare un’altra creatura di Whedon, Melaka, la Cacciatrice del futuro creata da Whedon nel 2001 per la Dark Horse.
Willow ha ricevuto una dritta dall’entità rettiloide che l’ha già aiutata in passato, e per questo si reca a New York con Buffy lasciando Xander alla base con le cacciatrici.
Xander si troverà bersagliato dall’ennesimo attacco di Warren e Amy, con il castello colpito da...more
Buffy and Willow head to NYC to find out the story behind the scythe's power and what it can really do. And Dawn has now shrunk down to normal size, kinda of. Down to centaur size at least. But as soon as Buffy and Willow are gone the missiles hit the land and the castle is destroyed and alien shapes come out to play. Meanwhile Buffy has been sucked into the future, having exchanged places with a demon. And she must battle her way back to the present against an old friend.
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Favorite Quotes:
Melaka Fray, “I fig we stake some lush haunt, lurks come out, we skin 'em for stories. Yeah?”
Buffy, “Does any part of that sentence involve me beating something up?”
Tree person-thing, “Let us show these abominations the forest's rage!”
Xander, “Followed quickly by the forest's denial, bargaining, and then short, painful acceptance.”
I enjoyed this book, but not quite as much as the previous three. I can't connect to a lot of shows or books ...more
Melaka Fray, “I fig we stake some lush haunt, lurks come out, we skin 'em for stories. Yeah?”
Buffy, “Does any part of that sentence involve me beating something up?”
Tree person-thing, “Let us show these abominations the forest's rage!”
Xander, “Followed quickly by the forest's denial, bargaining, and then short, painful acceptance.”
I enjoyed this book, but not quite as much as the previous three. I can't connect to a lot of shows or books ...more
The Flooze (Michelle M.)
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I'm not feeling this volume at all. Plot lines are a jumble, the dialogue is off, and there is no sense of urgency. For now, I'm at a loss for why it was included.
Beginning with an attempt to regroup after recent tragedies, Time of Your Life quickly shifts to a trip to New York complete with temporal anomalies. The result is Buffy suddenly finding herself in a future version of Manhattan.
Fray, the slayer of the future, is an interesting character. She's funky and much e...more
Beginning with an attempt to regroup after recent tragedies, Time of Your Life quickly shifts to a trip to New York complete with temporal anomalies. The result is Buffy suddenly finding herself in a future version of Manhattan.
Fray, the slayer of the future, is an interesting character. She's funky and much e...more
Joss Whedon takes an opportunity to merge his popular vampire slayer show with the futuristic graphic novel he wrote a few years ago with Fray. This is the fourth volume (or episode) in the eighth season, though it is only in comic form, of Whedon's show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In a bizarre mix-up involving magical time travel, Buffy is thrown forward into he future where she finds herself working with the slayer Fray, who is trying to stand alone as against the vampires with only her police o...more
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The more I read this series, the more I wonder if I'm missing something. It's been like that since the beginning, me wondering if maybe having not watched the last (two?) seasons of Buffy I was missing out on background that made the whole storyline make sense. Like, why does Xander have an eyepatch? And why does Dawn seem to be at the mercy of some sort of curse, judging by the fact that she's suddenly gigantic? Did I miss something? Or did this series just start out in media res, and we're...more
The theme of the fourth installment is most definitely time travel. The main arc of this volume has Buffy traveling two hundred years into the future, traded for a demon by some mysterious force. She has to find her way back and decide what to make of her vision of the future. The last chapter in the volume is the equivalent of one of the silly episodes of Buffy; it does nothing to move the plot along, is largely inane, and good for a couple of laughs. In that one, Buffy, in more traditional com...more
This fourth volume of Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic collects # 16–20 of the title and returns to four issue story arc plus a single issue story format. It also sees the return of Whedon himself on the writing on the four issue arc (i.e. The Time of Your Life) in collaboration with Karl Moline, with whom he apparently did the Fray: Future Slayer mini series (which I, unfortunately haven't read).
The story is good and offers a crossover with the aforementioned Fra...more
The story is good and offers a crossover with the aforementioned Fra...more
Emily Northcutt
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One of my favorite television series of all time was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The mix of humor, horror and real human stories grabbed me from the beginning and I cried like a big goon when I watched the series finale. Thank goodness Joss Whedon decided to continue the story of these much-loved characters in another format. I own the first three volumes of Season 8, but I couldn't resist jumping back into the story when I saw that NetGalley was now offering Dark Horse titles. One of the stories ...more
I may need to reread this volume again to see if I missed something, but it seems to me that Whedon totally dropped the ball on this episode of BUFFY SEASON 8. What should have been an awesome story -- Buffy's crossover into the world of Whedon's first comic work, FRAY -- is poorly executed, poorly explained, and nonsensical plotwise.
The overall goal of the story seems to show a dark future for Willow and a foreboding sense that the Slayer Army will ultimately fade away. But there's...more
The overall goal of the story seems to show a dark future for Willow and a foreboding sense that the Slayer Army will ultimately fade away. But there's...more
I was a bit confused, since I've never read the Fray series, but I still enjoyed seeing Buffy in the future. Dark Willow making an appearance was also awesome, but I was left wondering what lead to her going “Dark” again. The main storyline is a bit hard to believe when comparing it to the television series. As much as I try to vision it, I just cant see Dawn ever being a centaur if the show had continued into season eight, but that doesn’t mean the graphic novels are less entertaining. They s...more
Graphic Novel. The main piece here, "Time of Your Life," involves time travel, painfully futuristic English, and a plot I couldn't follow with a GPS. Buffy's transported to the future (don't ask why or how) and meets Melaka Fray. Now, I've read Fray and I was still pretty lost. This story is four parts and I don't think the time travel sections told me anything I needed to know, but it did give me one good laugh: "Summers, you drive like a spaz." Oh, Joss, you know what we li...more
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Elizabeth (Miss Eliza)
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Season 8 just got better. I didn't like Vol 3 but Whedon takes over Vol 4 and bring in another Slayer from his Dark Horse series, Fray. If I were to have a problem with the book it would be the dialogue. Future speak just gets tired at times.
Jeph Loeb does a back up story that is dedicated to his son Sam. Art by Georges Jeanty. Just fantastic. It takes Buffy back to S1 in the animation style of the now dead, Animated Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. It really gives perspective on where the...more
Jeph Loeb does a back up story that is dedicated to his son Sam. Art by Georges Jeanty. Just fantastic. It takes Buffy back to S1 in the animation style of the now dead, Animated Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. It really gives perspective on where the...more
Somehow I lost track of where I was in Season Eight of the Buffyverse, but as soon as I picked up this book, it was very clear that this was where I had left off. I know there's various opinions on Season Eight, but I kind of love it. In this installment, Buffy meets Fray, Willow's future is sort of explained, and Kennedy expresses jealousy over Buffy & Willow's close friendship even though I really think if B&W had any chemistry, they would have boned a long time ago and Kennedy just sounds lik...more
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I received e-book copies of these books through NetGalley. These books are are collections of comics that continue the story of Buffy the Vampire Slayer after the end of the television show in season 7. The books do an excellent job of keeping the tone of the show, and most of the drawings are really good likenesses of the characters translated from screen to page. In season 8 Buffy, the new slayers, and the scooby gang are fighting a big bad named Twilight. Apparently the name was totally coinc...more
I've read Fray, and I've wondered how Joss Whedon might rationalise going from a universe where all Slayer potentials were activated to one where there's not been a Slayer for centuries. I thought it was probably going to be one of those things that could be chalked up to inconsistent universe but it looks like he might actually thought of how he might reconcile the two.
I wasn't expecting time travel from Buffy. Time travel is always a tricky story. At least in Time of Your Life it's...more
I wasn't expecting time travel from Buffy. Time travel is always a tricky story. At least in Time of Your Life it's...more
Color me stupid, but I just realized while reading this fourth volume that the evil group Buffy has been facing in the comics is called 'Twilight'.
Hee....
Since Stephanie Meyer shamelessly ripped off countless ideas and concepts from Joss Whedon, I gotta assume that the man is taking a not-so subtle dig at She-Who-Writes-Sparkly-Vampires.
Whedon has been continuing the adventures of Buffy and her friends from where the finale of the series left off. And while i...more
Hee....
Since Stephanie Meyer shamelessly ripped off countless ideas and concepts from Joss Whedon, I gotta assume that the man is taking a not-so subtle dig at She-Who-Writes-Sparkly-Vampires.
Whedon has been continuing the adventures of Buffy and her friends from where the finale of the series left off. And while i...more
A much better entry in the series than the previous. Buffy gets transported 200 years into the future, which apparently is a cross-over to another Whedon graphic novel, Fray. I really enjoyed the story arc, and will definitely be checking out Fray at some point. And, not to give anything away about the story arc, but I did love the part Willow played in it all.
The standalone at the end was off-putting. I'd had plenty of "Buffy in high school" in the show itself, and rather ...more
The standalone at the end was off-putting. I'd had plenty of "Buffy in high school" in the show itself, and rather ...more
I've been having a crappy couple of days, so it was really nice to get to read the best of the Season 8 bunch. I needed some Whedonesque snark. I'm disappointed in the lack of actual Robot Monkeys, though.
uffy creator and showrunner takes over the reigns of season one again... and more or less drops the ball, again. While the Buffy seen here is a better match for the screen version than his last attempt, it more or less ignores the character's progression through this season, and sticks out like a sore thumb because of it. As for the travelling to the future, and meeting the future slayer 'Fray'... why? It makes little sense, what explanation there is is badly passed over, and nothing is really g...more
Helga
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Definitely not as strong as the previous volumes. I don't love the whole Fray universe, and any plotline that involves the future and time travel is pretty much inherently annoying and prone to reader confusion. I'm also not a big fan of the dialect of the future. However! There was a bit of interesting character interaction--Dawn and Xander as a team is something I enjoy seeing--and one big reveal that makes me really want to read the next volume. I think it's about time they had some action on...more
The comic book got better again :) I've only read one chapter of Fray so far, but it was still fun to see her in this installment. I really liked the story this time, no more weird-Buffy-stuff, and I loved the future Willow (although I would really like to know her true motives - did they remain a mystery or is it just that I didn't get the story?:p).. Also now I can see how this could never be made back into a tv show (at least not with the budget it seemed to have ) - all the futuristic flying...more
I was not very interested in Fray the slayer, nor am I a big fan of Karl Moline's drawings, mostly because I confused Dark Willow for Dawn for the entire comic! Like, the script does not name them or have characters refer to them but it is supposed to be suspenseful and like a punch-line when someone is revealed out of the shadows, but it works only if you recognize the character. I kept thinking it was Dawn because Fray's twin brother, Harth, asks why "Dawn" must kill her sister (keyw...more
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I'm really chewing over this review you guys. I've liked all of Season 8 so far, but it's hard to review it in small chunks like I'm doing. Anyways, as far as these 4 issues go, I'm mixed. There's a lot happening here, and the really interesting stuff is all happening off-screen, so we're being set up for whatever happens later, which is fine, but it felt like some really important stuff flew by much more quickly than it should have. I mean this is kind of big stuff, I wouldn't have minded slowi...more
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Joss Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon) is an Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award winning American screenwriter, executive producer, director, occasional composer and actor, and founder of Mutant Enemy Productions. He graduated from Winchester College in England and he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987.
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