Written by Georges Jeanty, Jeph Loeb, Eric Wight. Acclaimed comic-book writer Jeph Loeb (Batman: The Long Halloween) was set to executive produce, alongside Joss Whedon and animator Eric Wight, the proposed Buffy animated TV series. While Buffy fans won't be viewing that show anytime soon, Loeb, Wight, and Whedon offer the next best thing-a comic inspired by the animated series! Jeph Loeb and Eric Wight take the reins on Buffy Season Eight with this very special one-shot joining series artist Georges Jeanty, in a twisted tale picking up from the time-traveling Buffy/Fray crossover. 2008 Eisner Award winner-Best New Series. Executive produced by series creator Joss Whedon.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Jeph Loeb Takes a Stab At Buffy,
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This review is from: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20 (Comic)
The basic idea is this. Buffy has a dream about her past life, which is illustrated like the animated series (which never came to fruition) would have been. Batman: The Long Halloween writer Jeph Loeb is the writer of this one-shot.
Does Loeb have a feel for Buffy's voice? No. There are moments where it reads as horrid fanfic (The opening line "You come one more inch and... things are going to get all blechy"), and other moments where it sort of works ("Look at you, Will! You're all magicky and gay now!"), but it's a lot more of the latter than it is of the former. How's the plot? Not bad. It's cool to see present-Buffy interact with the old cast, and the scene with her mom reads a lot better with the comic in front of you than it did in the preview. Things are rushed, yeah, and you don't really get a good idea of how Buffy feels during the whole thing, but that was to be expected. It really didn't read like Season Eight level material, but it also wasn't awful. And the framing scenes? Oh no. "It was all a dream." Yup. He did it. I liked the beginning of the issue, and that the Scoobs were shown to be living in a new place... but the end could have tied things up a hell of a lot better. So Buffy had an in depth dream that allowed her to take a small piece of advice away from it and, maybe, apply it to her current life. Interesting... but enough to warrant an issue like this? No. There should have been a deeper reason behind it, and if a few pages or panels were sacrificed, there could have been. 5/10
1.0 out of 5 stars
Is this how things are going to go without Joss at the reigns??,
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This review is from: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20 (Comic)
The old comic book series based on Buffy had a lot of problems. This issue is very similar to those. It was just uninteresting. I am considering stopping my monthly pull of the series at my local comic book shop if things continue in this manner.
Poor to no story. Horrible artwork. Bad dialog. Sigh. We miss you Joss.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the most enjoyable issues in the series,
By Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20 (Comic)
This is in my opinion one of the most delightful issues in the ongoing Buffy Season 8 yet published. It takes the form of a dream that Buffy has when she collapses from exhaustion from fighting various beasties and monsters. The dream is drawn in the style that had been envisioned for the animated series that Whedon pitched shortly after the ending of the TV series. If you go to Youtube and search for the animated Buffy series you should be able to find the promo. The showrunner for the animated series, had it gotten picked up, was to have been Jeph Loeb, the guest writer for this issue.
The setting for the episode is the same as the proposed animated series, Buffy's high school days, only in the reality created by the monks who made Dawn Buffy's sister. I found the whole flashback to be a ton of fun and it intensified my regret that the animated series did not get picked up. Whether this is a good or bad issue, or whether it is consistent with rest of the series is largely a matter for debate. I will add, however, that my three friends who subscribe to Buffy 8, as well as the people at the comic book store where I pick up my subscription all feel this is one of the most enjoyable Buffy issues yet. There is no question that its style is very, very different than the rest of the issues. But I see that as a virtue, not a flaw. Frankly, I was a bit dubious about the series of stand alone issues that are coming out, but I enjoyed this one so much that I'm now anxious to see
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