Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home

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It's a hit!

I loved the television series (I bought each season the day they came out on DVD and watch the entire thing the whole way through in 1 sitting). A... (show more)

I loved the television series (I bought each season the day they came out on DVD and watch the entire thing the whole way through in 1 sitting). After watching the series finale, I was pretty happy with the way things ended. However, then I watched the 5th season of Angel and started to get ideas put into my head about how Buffy was doing. So I was really happy when the comics started coming out.

I'd have to say that the start to this comic 8th season is 50/50 with me. There are so many things that can be done in the comics that Joss Wheadon couldn't even have begun to imagine in the show. The characters seem pretty true to their personalities. However, they just aren't the same. I just don't feel the same delivery of the show in the comics. Though I will keep reading and definitely recommend to Buffy fans! (show less)

 

 

by Michelle Anelli

No, it's a flop!

Hmmmm.... I'm really not convinced. I *loved* Buffy when it was on TV but this just doesn't have the same feel about it. The same jokes and same ch... (show more)

Hmmmm.... I'm really not convinced. I *loved* Buffy when it was on TV but this just doesn't have the same feel about it. The same jokes and same characters but the whole storyline is a lot darker and not really to my taste. I don't think I'll be getting the next one in the series somehow. It's the sort of thing that I imagine would appeal more to the male viewers of the original tv series. Too graphic and dark for me. (show less)

 

 

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  I had bought the individual comics when they had first come out. I just picked up this collection - and I'll try to pick up all the collections when I have the time (and money.) They are easy to keep track of this way. I loose the little ones. And I've fallen way behind on the series.

  With that being said. There is something I just don't like about the comic books. I think the dialogue is great, and the most enjoyment I get out of reading them is when I can hear the characters voices in my ... (show more)

  I had bought the individual comics when they had first come out. I just picked up this collection - and I'll try to pick up all the collections when I have the time (and money.) They are easy to keep track of this way. I loose the little ones. And I've fallen way behind on the series.

  With that being said. There is something I just don't like about the comic books. I think the dialogue is great, and the most enjoyment I get out of reading them is when I can hear the characters voices in my head. But there is something missing. The scope is too big, the characters too scattered, the plots too action packed.

  This isn't a story about a girl living on the hellmouth anymore. This is basically a mythology story. A story of a great leader learning how to train an army. Season 7 of Buffy was already headed in this direction, and as much as I hate that season of Buffy, it had a better sense of urgency and turmoil than this comic book does.

  If you had asked me a year ago - I would have blamed it on the failure of the comic book genre in general. I have never really read them, and on the surface they seem, well, surfacey. But that was before I read watchmen, and knew that brilliant characterization is possible in this format.

  Maybe it's unfair to compare Buffy to Watchmen. But there is no sense of reality to these characters. Things seem to happen just for the spectacle of them happening. The world is weirder and makes less sense than it did in the tv show. (even then the mythology didn't make so much sense.) Like the fact that all the monsters are huge now, and there are fairies and willow and transport whole submarines. It's neat and it's cute. But it's not Buffy.

  But back to this particular series of 5 issues. I like it the best, because there is the most sense of time and place, of the characters we knew on the show, the dialogue is sharper and more clever than all of season 5 6 and 7. It's entertaining.

  There is something off about it. And this something off just gets worse and worse as the series goes on. (show less)

   

   

  by Facebook-användare on Sep 05, 2009 at 06:38PM

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  I admit openly that I resisted reading this for quite some time, and probably would have done so if it hadn't just happened to be an incredibly cheap graphic novel purchase at my local second hand bookseller. I was always satisfied with how Whedon and company chose to wrap the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series...leaving our often tragic heroine with a smile and a sense of relief. I wanted Buffy to be happy, and she was...so I was appalled of the notion of attempting to thrust everyone's favorit... (show more)

  I admit openly that I resisted reading this for quite some time, and probably would have done so if it hadn't just happened to be an incredibly cheap graphic novel purchase at my local second hand bookseller. I was always satisfied with how Whedon and company chose to wrap the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series...leaving our often tragic heroine with a smile and a sense of relief. I wanted Buffy to be happy, and she was...so I was appalled of the notion of attempting to thrust everyone's favorite slayer back into the fray. That said, the consequences of the show's last episode would certainly cause a change in the world of our characters' lives, and that's what the season eight comic is truly about. The world is now a different place, there are slayers aplenty who are being treated as public enemy numero uno by their own government and also being targeted by a mysterious organization known only as "The Twilight" (something I cannot help but pretend is a stab at Stephanie Meyer). The story here contains all the trademark Whedon witticism, and it is nice to see some of our old favorites long after we'd left them. This book is generally good fun, and is a fine addition to the Buffyverse...and while it still doesn't live up to the grand tradition of the show for me, it was not worth ignoring either, especially due to the always amazing storytelling by Whedon. The Slayer is back...and she's not alone...vampires beware. (show less)

   

  by Michael Varrati on Jun 01, 2009 at 06:43PM

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