BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #16
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Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Years ago, Joss Whedon was a guy who wrote and directed
television shows and the occasional movie. There was no Runaways and
Astonishing X-Men wasn't even a glint of light on the horizon. In fact, the
idea that he'd take time out of show running two network teevee shows while
prepping for a third to write a comic book was laughable. Insane, even.
Then came Fray.
Fray was a Dark Horse original series - eight issues (which took a year-plus to
publish, a disturbing foreshadowing of future endeavors, sadly) drawn by Karl
Moline and written by Buffy creator himself, Mr. Whedon. It introduced Melaca
Fray, a street-level criminal in future New York who also happens to be,
unknown to her, the Slayer. I won’t spoil that series for you but will say that
it’s fan-f***ing-tastic. It also introduced the scythe, which has become so
important to Buffy/the Slayers in Season Eight. If you don’t have it, go get
it.
Now Joss has solid comics track record, having written several high profile comics, generally to high praise. BtVS:S8 is his latest project and after great arcs written by Brian Vaughan and Drew Goddard – out of which at least one pick of the week came – Joss is back behind the typewriter for this one. And it’s just great.
Everything a Buffy fan could want is present, and in abundance. Laugh out loud dialogue. Bizarre situations that are completely believable within the Buffyverse. The long awaited reunion of Willow and Kennedy. Amy, skinless boy, and this seasons Big Bad. And action. It looks like the HQ castle may be history, hit hard with mystical artillery with who knows how many slayers inside. Also, we get the beginning of what looks like could be a very nasty fight between Mel and Buffy.
But wait, Buffy’s in the present and Mel is like, what? 500 years in the future? How did that happen? Easy my friends, it’s that old Star Trek McGuffin, the Temporal Anomaly. Not since Yesterday’s Enterprise has the hole in space-time been used this effectively. Now Buffy’s facing a mad as hell Fray who’s convinced Ms. Summers is some kind of glamour thrown onto some nasty demon she really, really wants to kill. And Fray’s pretty good with the killing.
To summarize, this is going to be a fun arc.
Final word on the art. I don’t give 5s freely. But I’ve had
a man crush of Karl Moline since Fray was first published. Hell, I even followed him to CrossGen
for the late, lamented Route 666. Georges Jeanty has been doing great work on
this book up to now, but no one can draw Fray
- and futuristic, decaying, flying-car filled New York – like Karl.The opening two-page Fray/Buffy splash is genius. Just, Wow. I giggled like a schoolgirl wneh I saw it. It's that good.
Art: 5 - Excellent
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