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Buffy Summers and her Slayer army have suffered heavy losses throughout Season Eight and faced scores of threats new and old, but the one mystery connecting it all has been the identity of the Big Bad Twilight! In this penultimate volume of Season Eight, New York Times bestselling novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer (The Book of Lies, Identity Crisis) joins series artist Georges Jeanty in beginning the buildup to the season finale in the story line that finally reveals the identity of Twilight! In the aftermath of the battle with Twilight's army, Buffy has developed a host of new powers, but when will the other shoe drop, and will it be a cute shoe, or an ugly one? Still reeling from the losses of war, Willow goes looking for missing allies, and discovers a horrifying truth about several of the Slayer army's recent ordeals. Adding to the mayhem is the unexpected return of Angel, in his Season Eight debut! This volume also features two stories from series creator and executive producer Joss Whedon! In the Willow one-shot, Whedon and Fray artist Karl Moline reveal for the first time what Buffy's witchy best friend was up to between Seasons Seven and Eight, with a mind-blowing cameo by a frequently requested character. And in "Turbulence," Joss spotlights the complicated relationship between Buffy and Xander with a conversation that changes it forever.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Okay I'm a little baffled by this one. I'll not give the front spread away but it seems hugely disjointed from the images that closed the previous tpb. I honestly thought I'd missed a volume. I'm going to have to read it several times to make sense. And the cover gives away the whole Twilight thing just a tad so BOO ON YOU DARK HORSE. And there's a goddamn ton of exposition here which isn't easy reading on first glance.
I'm in this for the long haul cos I do love BtVS and I'll buy the next tpb. But this volume just smacks of a little too panicked 'wait, we need to make it all make sense now'. Disappointing. And somebody drew Faith with the worst outfit ever which is rubbish. Girl would never wear a top that bad.
Xander good. Willow good. And there was less Riley which was even better. Kennedy is starting to steal the show a little bit for me.
I'm in this for the long haul cos I do love BtVS and I'll buy the next tpb. But this volume just smacks of a little too panicked 'wait, we need to make it all make sense now'. Disappointing. And somebody drew Faith with the worst outfit ever which is rubbish. Girl would never wear a top that bad.
Xander good. Willow good. And there was less Riley which was even better. Kennedy is starting to steal the show a little bit for me.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
MINOR SPOILERS BELOW
This was a pretty poor read, only saved from a zero-star status by the presence of some strong art (Jeanty, Owens, Madsen, I love your style - even when the subject matter is idiotic) and the fact that you can't leave less than a one-star review.
Despite my misgivings, I was willing to push on and see if the plot that had begun to go badly awry in TBP 6 could be leading to something interesting and emotive, or at the very least salvage the characters and story line that years and years have gone into building up. Sadly, this was emphatically not the case. Stale writing, smug self-referentials, and a pretty stunning lack of substance and credence in the plot dragged the book down badly. This despite the much-announced arrival of Angel in Season 8, and the revelations of the real meaning of Twilight.
Even the fact that Joss Whedon wrote the intro chapter doesn't save this, and honestly I found even his contribution ('Turbulence') to be anti-climactic. The dialogue was sharper, but the focus was entirely off. If 60 pages of the TBP focus on Angel and Buffy, 40 before them focus on a completely ill-timed and irrelevant love rhombus between Dawn, Xander, Superpowers and Buffy. The relationships between characters has been a great source of interest, humour and pathos in the comic series... but when more pages, words and effort are devoted to dealing with a jarring romance subplot than to finding a suitably clever or heroic defeat for the three giant monster goddesses that just killed hundreds of people... the flow of the story just falls apart.
Speaking of the flow of the story, the exposition-heavy nature of the story's main dramatic scenes was badly handled indeed. Most tellingly, in the long-term: the stuff that is expounded upon has never even been mentioned by anyone or anything in any of the comics before now, mythology-wise I'm afraid the whole thing comes across as ridiculous even when the writer clumsily tries to use Giles's Watcher status to ret-con it all into the arc and the backstory of the entire Slayer legacy. But also, in the short-term: everybody spontaneously gets their powers back/gets to be invulnerable/gets healed/gets ignored/gets left in Tibet etc - with no effort made to explore how or why this is going on, all just to set up the big finale scene.
And thanks to all of that, there wasn't a single page or even a single panel of this collection that raised a smile, gasp or laugh from me. The closest I got to believing there were actual characters and people behind the unsurprising dialogue and cliche situations involved Warren and Andrew, Xander's penultimate line, and a sliver at the end of the horribly over-extended scene with Buffy and Angel. It's not because I'm cold-hearted or anything, either. I've laughed and gasped and been saddened by many a venture over the course of Season 8, but not these past issues. No way.
So there's no way I'll be buying the TBP 8 of Season 8 unless somebody convinces me that a grown-up has control of the plot, no matter who is putting their graphic art skills to it.
This was a pretty poor read, only saved from a zero-star status by the presence of some strong art (Jeanty, Owens, Madsen, I love your style - even when the subject matter is idiotic) and the fact that you can't leave less than a one-star review.
Despite my misgivings, I was willing to push on and see if the plot that had begun to go badly awry in TBP 6 could be leading to something interesting and emotive, or at the very least salvage the characters and story line that years and years have gone into building up. Sadly, this was emphatically not the case. Stale writing, smug self-referentials, and a pretty stunning lack of substance and credence in the plot dragged the book down badly. This despite the much-announced arrival of Angel in Season 8, and the revelations of the real meaning of Twilight.
Even the fact that Joss Whedon wrote the intro chapter doesn't save this, and honestly I found even his contribution ('Turbulence') to be anti-climactic. The dialogue was sharper, but the focus was entirely off. If 60 pages of the TBP focus on Angel and Buffy, 40 before them focus on a completely ill-timed and irrelevant love rhombus between Dawn, Xander, Superpowers and Buffy. The relationships between characters has been a great source of interest, humour and pathos in the comic series... but when more pages, words and effort are devoted to dealing with a jarring romance subplot than to finding a suitably clever or heroic defeat for the three giant monster goddesses that just killed hundreds of people... the flow of the story just falls apart.
Speaking of the flow of the story, the exposition-heavy nature of the story's main dramatic scenes was badly handled indeed. Most tellingly, in the long-term: the stuff that is expounded upon has never even been mentioned by anyone or anything in any of the comics before now, mythology-wise I'm afraid the whole thing comes across as ridiculous even when the writer clumsily tries to use Giles's Watcher status to ret-con it all into the arc and the backstory of the entire Slayer legacy. But also, in the short-term: everybody spontaneously gets their powers back/gets to be invulnerable/gets healed/gets ignored/gets left in Tibet etc - with no effort made to explore how or why this is going on, all just to set up the big finale scene.
And thanks to all of that, there wasn't a single page or even a single panel of this collection that raised a smile, gasp or laugh from me. The closest I got to believing there were actual characters and people behind the unsurprising dialogue and cliche situations involved Warren and Andrew, Xander's penultimate line, and a sliver at the end of the horribly over-extended scene with Buffy and Angel. It's not because I'm cold-hearted or anything, either. I've laughed and gasped and been saddened by many a venture over the course of Season 8, but not these past issues. No way.
So there's no way I'll be buying the TBP 8 of Season 8 unless somebody convinces me that a grown-up has control of the plot, no matter who is putting their graphic art skills to it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What on earth? The series has been getting bigger and grander in scale and now takes a turn which really pushes credibility to beyond its logical conclusion.
True the unmasking of Twilight was signposted in the choice of words of the character, however the exposition that results just makes less sense. For all of the increasing in powers that Buffy has some of the actions of the key characters seems so far out of character.
Which all leaves with a really disatisfied feeling. Logically the series should have an ending which reveals a greater power behind this, however I sense that Series 8 now has proven that the show ended when it should have done. Really disappointed.
True the unmasking of Twilight was signposted in the choice of words of the character, however the exposition that results just makes less sense. For all of the increasing in powers that Buffy has some of the actions of the key characters seems so far out of character.
Which all leaves with a really disatisfied feeling. Logically the series should have an ending which reveals a greater power behind this, however I sense that Series 8 now has proven that the show ended when it should have done. Really disappointed.
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Oh Joss Whedon :(
I'm not one to normally write a review, but I was so very disappointing by this volume I thought it might just be necessary. Read more
Published 8 months ago by offtheshiznit
Hideous penultimate volume
I've really enjoyed Season 8. What a shame that it has turned into this mess.
In the previous volume, Buffy led her friends and the Slayer army into a disaster. Read more
In the previous volume, Buffy led her friends and the Slayer army into a disaster. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. N. Shaikh
Good old fashioned Buffy
This is a solid continuation of Buffy; I'd recommend those who haven't tried the series (the change in format *is* a little off-putting) to give it a go. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Sam Wise
Baffling at times...
This book contains the 4 parter arc 'Twilight' and the Willow one-shot 'Goddesses and Monsters'.
'Twilight' picks up where Retreat left off; Buffy suddenly has... Read more
'Twilight' picks up where Retreat left off; Buffy suddenly has... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Darkstorm
disappointing
I love Buffy and I'm a completist so I'll be buying the final book in season 8 anyway, but this - the penultimate book - was just plain awful. Read more
Published 19 months ago by John
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