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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #22


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  1. Avatar photo biftec says:
    February 2, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    Steve DeKnights is probably my least favorite buffy writer and Kennedy is definitely my least favorite Buffy character.  We’ll see how this turns out…

  2. Avatar photo Eyun says:
    February 2, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    DeKnight’s no Drew Goddard, but he’s written some decent episodes of Buffy. Actually I think his best work has been on Smallville lately, IMHO

    The problem I have with Kennedy is they never really found anything that interesting to do with her in the show. And that’s a problem for a character brought in fill the space where Tara was, a character we were really invested in.

    Still, this book has yet to let me down, so I’m excited.

  3. Avatar photo TacticalChaos15 says:
    February 2, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    I really like DeKnight, but I do not like the character Kennedy at all. sooo, I am weary of how this will turn out. I agree with Eyun, Tara was such a part of the show that trying to fill her spot so quickly with Kennedy probably turned a lot of fan against her character.

    I just finished the last disc of the series last night for the first time and so everything is fresh in my mind. I am just really glad this series is out and for how strong it has been, unlike the Angel ATF series.This can’t be as bad as last months issue though ( and I usually love Espensons stuff) so I know I will be picking this up.

  4. Avatar photo GungaDin says:
    February 2, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    I will never understand the people hating on Kennedy. By the same token, I’ll never understand the people who shat on Riley in season four (season five is a different story).

  5. Avatar photo Jim Mroczkowski (@jimski) says:
    February 2, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    The "vampires are the hot new thing" development may be too stupid for me to keep reading this book, I hate to say.

  6. Avatar photo Eyun says:
    February 2, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    I don’t hate Kennedy, it’s more that I feel sorry for her, or rather the actress. They had to get Willow out of her slump, so a new relationship was the obvious choice, and that’s fine. Except they chose a character who’d had so little to do in the show we barely knew her. It was big shoes to fill and she got a raw deal.

    I thought Riley was GREAT by the way! "I forgot my manners in all the concussion" is one of the best delivered lines in the whole show, and he had a really interesting arc. But, yeah… season 5… not so much… 🙂

  7. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    February 2, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    I have zero idea as to who this Kennedy person is.

  8. Avatar photo GungaDin says:
    February 2, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    @conor Long story short, Willow’s girlfriend.

  9. Avatar photo Chris Rohling says:
    February 2, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Who else thinks its fitting that the villain has been named Twilight the whole time?

  10. Avatar photo TommyBrownell says:
    February 3, 2009 at 12:57 am

    This…series…has…slowed…soooo…far…down…

    Can we get back on track, pls?  Thx.

  11. Avatar photo TacticalChaos15 says:
    February 3, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    @ Anson : hehehehehehehehehehheheheheh

     @ Eyun : I agree with you on the Riley part, I enjoyed his character even through season 5 and his return with his SPOILER; wife: ENDSPOILER in season 6 or whatever. I always thought he was a cool character and I also thought that the Initiative was pretty cool.

  12. Avatar photo buckeyerdld says:
    February 3, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    This book has just started to bore me.  I’m not sure if I will buy this or not.  

  13. Avatar photo Eyun says:
    February 3, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    @TacticalChaos15 – I loved season 4, I know a lot of people didn’t because the show changed a fair bit but to me that was kinda the point. I think it had to change a little.

    Also, season 4 gave us the beyond awesome slo-mo Xander/Harmony hair-pulling fight, which to me justified the entire season right there. 🙂

  14. Avatar photo GungaDin says:
    February 4, 2009 at 12:23 am

    @Eyun Season four gave us Hush and Restless. As if you needed more reason.

  15. Avatar photo Eyun says:
    February 4, 2009 at 9:15 am

    @GungaDin – Forgot about Hush. How could I forget about Hush? Also the Who Are You? double-bill (Faith!)… Yep, I need to dig out my box set…

  16. Avatar photo ohcaroline says:
    February 4, 2009 at 9:36 am

    I didn’t like the actress who played Kennedy, but the character is okay and I like what we’ve seen with her in the comic.  Glad to see that it looks like Satsu will be back as well.

    I can’t get my head around the vampires-are-cool thing; the idea of vampires being public has potential, but the angle they’re taking seems like. . .I dunno, a Fuck You to ‘Twilight’?  Is that really *necessary*?

  17. Avatar photo Eyun says:
    February 4, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    I saw Twilight. It wasn’t even under protest, I was happy to give it a shot…

    Sparkly vampires! Seriously, vampires that SPARKLE! What up with that?

  18. Avatar photo TommyBrownell says:
    February 5, 2009 at 12:27 am

    This is hard to say as a Buffy fan…

    But this book is killing me to read now.  Yeesh.  First, Joss got behind on the Fray arc (not that I care about Fray anyway)…then we get a manic Jeph Loeb fill-in…then silly nonsense with Harmony and now Kennedy & Satsu…this is why Season 7 was so bad, IMHO…too much focus on characters I don’t care about, and not nearly enough focus on the characters that were integral to seasons 1-6.

  19. Avatar photo mountainwindcat says:
    February 5, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Not sure why people are having a hard time with this book because I felt this issue really spoke well and had an excelletn pace. Jeanty’s art remains fantastic and Chen’s covers are beautiful. I’m giving this issue a 5/5 no doubt.

  20. Avatar photo TommyBrownell says:
    February 5, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    I couldn’t even tell the Slayers apart most of the time…like, I didn’t realize in half of the comic that that was supposed to be Kennedy, and I had gotten Satsu mixed up somewhere.  Of course, as indicated, I REALLY don’t care about Kennedy, and I don’t like Satsu, so an issue focused on them equals the third loser issue in a row for me.

  21. Avatar photo cman12 says:
    February 6, 2009 at 1:26 am

    I finished Season 7 recently and I couldn’t STAND Kennedy. She was (at least to me) completely uninteresting. Her and Willow together always seemed forced to me. Maybe it did have a lot to do with the actress though. I remember cringing when she spoke it was so bad.

  22. Davetron3k says:
    February 7, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    I have to say that I’m already not loving the whole vamps going public and stirring up anti-slayer sentiments. I hope it only lasts for this arc and not the rest of the series. The whole thing with heroes being unjustly & publicly villified has just been done to death. Plus it just doesn’t feel right in the Buffyverse

  23. Avatar photo buckeyerdld says:
    February 7, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Should the title be called "Buffy: The Leader all the of Vampire Slayers"?  I guess I really am tired of this current premise of having all these vampire slayers running around.  

  24. Avatar photo s1lentslayer says:
    February 7, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    The last two issues have been the worst of Season 8. I am not liking this trend. Get back to Buffy, Xander, and Willow.

  25. Avatar photo TacticalChaos15 says:
    February 10, 2009 at 1:15 am

    @ s1lentslayer : I agree,  Issue 21 is the worst issue of BTVS by far!

  26. Avatar photo DorianP says:
    February 28, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    I liked this more than last month’s issue, but I’m just not as excited about Buffy as I used to be.  The delays during Whedon’s Fray arc really killed the momentum for me.

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