ShaggyMarco
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So, I finished issue #1 this morning and really liked it.
I know this thread has no spoiler tags, so until that happens, I am putting my synopsis in the brand-spanking new spoiler tags.
The dialogue was exactly right. It is interesting getting inside Buffy/Xander's heads, something you can't ever explicitly do in T.V. There are moments, (such as Buffy complaining,
) that resonate exactly like lines in the show tended to. Not a lot really happens, but it certainly sets things up well and hints at a lot of drastic changes for the Scooby status quo. Also, the reference to certain events in the 5th season of Angel are great (especially the revelation about
I give it a 4/5
I know this thread has no spoiler tags, so until that happens, I am putting my synopsis in the brand-spanking new spoiler tags.
You definitely get the sense that something has happened, that time has passed. It starts out with Buffy leading a commando team of slayers, musing through "thought boxes" how things have changed. It then cuts to Xander at some kind of high-tech hq doing basically the same thing. He IS Nick Fury, and even asks to be called that! He is coordinating multiple slayer-teams around the world.
Buffy and co are given the go-ahead and bust up some demons, finding "victims" with apparently self-inflected mysterious symbols carved onto their chests-a Buffy staple. Mysterious boots are flying overhead, watching the whole thing.
A general is angry about there being magic, and Buffy raising an army. He wants to do something about it. He has people excavating Sunnydale, attempting to find something he can use or understand. They find something inexplicable and surprising, but we aren't shown what.
Buffy and Xander are discussing the mysterious symbol, but they can't decipher it. Xander tells Buffy she needs to talk to her sister. Buffy is hesitant, and makes comment about not being able to do anything until they find Willow. She eventually listens to Xander and goes into another room where she finds a Giant-sized Dawn over a 2-page multi-panel spread. Apparently she fell in with a wrong boy and that. combined with her amateur witchiness, resulted in an irreversable giant-sizing which they need the missing Willow to undo. Dawn also refuses to discuss the boy with Buffy.
The general is now at a facility talking about offering someonerelease, full immunity, and lots of cheese in return for taking out Buffy for them. That person, in the last page reveal is shown to be a very scarred and crazy-looking Amy.
Buffy and co are given the go-ahead and bust up some demons, finding "victims" with apparently self-inflected mysterious symbols carved onto their chests-a Buffy staple. Mysterious boots are flying overhead, watching the whole thing.
A general is angry about there being magic, and Buffy raising an army. He wants to do something about it. He has people excavating Sunnydale, attempting to find something he can use or understand. They find something inexplicable and surprising, but we aren't shown what.
Buffy and Xander are discussing the mysterious symbol, but they can't decipher it. Xander tells Buffy she needs to talk to her sister. Buffy is hesitant, and makes comment about not being able to do anything until they find Willow. She eventually listens to Xander and goes into another room where she finds a Giant-sized Dawn over a 2-page multi-panel spread. Apparently she fell in with a wrong boy and that. combined with her amateur witchiness, resulted in an irreversable giant-sizing which they need the missing Willow to undo. Dawn also refuses to discuss the boy with Buffy.
The general is now at a facility talking about offering someonerelease, full immunity, and lots of cheese in return for taking out Buffy for them. That person, in the last page reveal is shown to be a very scarred and crazy-looking Amy.
The dialogue was exactly right. It is interesting getting inside Buffy/Xander's heads, something you can't ever explicitly do in T.V. There are moments, (such as Buffy complaining,
"since when did Willow become the expert on boys?"
"The Girl in Question"-that Buffy never was truly with The Immortal, that was just a complex ploy designed by Andrew to keep assassins from trying to take the real Buffy out)
I give it a 4/5
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