Buffy the Vampire Slayer

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) Covers: Two great ones. Nick Runge's cover shows Angel and Spike surrounded by fans at the Sci-Fi festival. Spike looks great, and the setting is really cool, but something is off with Angel's face. Still a very cool cover. Stephen Mooney's is just as interesting, appearing to be Angel as an ac...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) Art: Georges Jeanty. Loved his earlier stuff, hated his recent stuff. The art in this issue is a definite improvement, and Jeanty is re-learning to spend the appropriate amount of time on facial expressions and likenesses. For the first time ever, Oz and Andrew don't look alike. Buffy looks l...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) Art: The art is great. Messina is better than ever, creating more explosive action scenes and more emotional down moments. His likenesses have never been stronger, and his panels have never been more detailed. His improvement from his early ANGEL work to this is utterly phenominal. We're lu...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) What Is It?: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Issue #27: Retreat part II (written by Jane Espenson; art by Georges Jeanty). Characters We Know: Amy, Twilight, Riley, Warren, Willow, Buffy, Oz, Giles, Dawn, Xander, Tara (flashback), Faith, Andrew.

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) What Is It?: Fallen Angel: Reborn #1. This relaunch of Peter David's popular series, Fallen Angel (no relation to our ensouled vamp), features Illyria in a four part adventure. Approved by Joss Whedon, this is the first time a Buffyverse character is officially crossing over into a differ...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) What follows is the big magical battle, the Buffy/Giles conversation (not as volatile as I imagined... pretty much just sweet, but it works), and the submarine stuff. Some cool character moments and good dialogue (not Whedon, Goddard, or Vaughan good, but good) make the battle scene easier...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) REVIEW: This sounds like a fantastic idea. I was at the Dark Horse panel when Scott Allie announced this one-shot, so it was pretty cool to actually have the book in my hands after a few months of anticipation. Also, I loved the original Tales of the Vampires miniseries, so it couldn't really g...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) Covers: Jo Chen has been on a damn role recently. She gave her best Buffy likeness with #23, rivaled the greatness of her Faith/Giles #7 cover with #24, took it to the Volume One TPB level of EPIC with her cover to #26, and with this, easily one of her best covers yet, she pays homage to the painte...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) REVIEW: I admit being a bit easy on the last few Buffy issues. I've been trying to pull out the good and push the bad under the carpet for the sake of optimism. Do I honestly think #21 deserved a 7/10? In retrospect, no. I'm not sure it would crack 5/10. Do I think #22 and #23 are really 8/10 comics? The...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) REVIEW: With #20, #21, and #22 really getting far away from the central cast of Season Eight, I was glad to have at least Buffy back in play for this issue. I was even more excited about the prospect of pairing her up with Andrew. When the spotlight shifts to that character, you can always expect...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) GENERAL REVIEW: Prior to seeing Dollhouse for the first time, I kept hearing two things that had me a bit worried for the show. I know, I know, Joss Whedon is one of the best of all time and I should trust him, but when you hear something said so much, even the biggest Joss fans (consider myself up...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) The story is mostly standalone, in that it centers on Satsu and co. (yup, there's nary a Buffy or Scoob until the final two pages) dealing with a new problem: Vampy Cats. They're adorable "stuffed" toys that climb into girls' mouths and possess them while simultaneously drying out their ski...

By noreply@blogger.com (PatShand) A lot of the main conflict, which can be boiled down to Buffy vs. Fray/Buffy vs. Dark Willow, is made up of action, but the dialogue and the final resolution to the conflict (c'mon, you don't think I'd give it away, did you?) is at once terrifying and sad. There are a few images here that you won't s...

By Loki I feel that season 5 of Angel is just about as close to perfect as you can get - with a few episodes as exceptions, sure, but I say "close to" for a reason. Season 2 of Buffy, on the other hand, has an awesome season plot, but a lot of (for Buffy) really bad single episodes sprinkled throughout. Main...

By PatShand Characters We Know: Spike, Lorne, Ratio Hornblower, The Gentlemen. We also get dream versions of some characters and puppet versions of others, and those include: Angel, Wesley, Illyria, Angelus, Fred, Connor, Cordy, Gunn. We also get hilarious call backs to Andrew and Buffy.

By PatShand March 5th: Buffy #12 (Big surprise!) Mid/Late March: Angel- After the Fall #5 (Two days are up, Angel) April 2nd: Buffy #13 (Drac's back) May 7th- Buffy #14 (Hypno Dawn stomps shit) Mid May- Angel- After the Fall #7, First Night 2 (Wes gets ghosty)