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jazzy_daveJoss Whedon, Various "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 Volume 2: On Your Own" (Dark Horse)
First of all, i need to state that graphic novels are still books i read rarely as they have less depth than a normal novel, but beginning to like these a bit more , and as a Buffy fan this one was intriguing. Also, the Buffy comics are good about keeping the flavour of the original TV series.
Not every single thing Buffy does has to be preventing a world-ending apocalypse (although it usually works out that way) and I think that by keeping her storyline a little smaller and her motivations more focused (figure out life, navigate relationships, deal with a changed world, kill vampires, protect the people you love), the writers managed to keep the series reigned in )in this series) to a more manageable scope, and kept it feeling more like the TV show and less like a trip to crazy-town.
The characters all sound like themselves, even as they grow and change in response to what's happened in their lives. The patter of the dialogue still flows the same. The characters… don't quite look the same (in the panels, at least; the cover paintings are quite realistic), but that's not new to this season, and at least they're all consistently identifiable (except for Andrew, who in my opinion is probably the character that looks the farthest from the actor). So overall, I really enjoyed these; they've got the signature Buffy mix of humor and heart and supernatural ass-kicking, all while sticking a little closer to the types of stories that made the series so great
First of all, i need to state that graphic novels are still books i read rarely as they have less depth than a normal novel, but beginning to like these a bit more , and as a Buffy fan this one was intriguing. Also, the Buffy comics are good about keeping the flavour of the original TV series.
Not every single thing Buffy does has to be preventing a world-ending apocalypse (although it usually works out that way) and I think that by keeping her storyline a little smaller and her motivations more focused (figure out life, navigate relationships, deal with a changed world, kill vampires, protect the people you love), the writers managed to keep the series reigned in )in this series) to a more manageable scope, and kept it feeling more like the TV show and less like a trip to crazy-town.
The characters all sound like themselves, even as they grow and change in response to what's happened in their lives. The patter of the dialogue still flows the same. The characters… don't quite look the same (in the panels, at least; the cover paintings are quite realistic), but that's not new to this season, and at least they're all consistently identifiable (except for Andrew, who in my opinion is probably the character that looks the farthest from the actor). So overall, I really enjoyed these; they've got the signature Buffy mix of humor and heart and supernatural ass-kicking, all while sticking a little closer to the types of stories that made the series so great
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Date: 2015-08-04 02:41 pm (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2015-08-04 11:46 pm (UTC)Buffy comics are unusually good, I do agree...