Aly's review
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Season 8, Vol. 1) by Joss Whedon
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, limits to good make-up). I thoroughly enjoy taking a break from traditional novels to get my fill of the absurd and inane in vampire graphic novels. Even though I often find myself learning more from these novel's morals than in some of the heavier tomes I've conquered.
All in all a great read, so entertaining. I have to get used to the graphic novel set up, I often find myself lost in the plot, having missed calculated which box of balloon dialogue to read, but I have no problem going back and...more
All in all a great read, so entertaining. I have to get used to the graphic novel set up, I often find myself lost in the plot, having missed calculated which box of balloon dialogue to read, but I have no problem going back and...more
