Sink your teeth into this! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Long Way Home - Joss Whedon)

Member Name: wob1001

Product:	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Long Way Home - Joss Whedon
Date:	09/08/08 (15 review reads)
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Advantages: A great continuation of the series!

Disadvantages: Only fans will appreciate.

Fans of the series may have been slighty dissapointed when Buffy the TV series ended, not due to the ending being bad, but because there was now nothing to look forward to! Here however Joss Whedon has released a graphic novel deatiling events that occur after the final series of Buffy.

Script - Joss Whedon (the cretor of Buffy) handles the script himself. He does an amazing job as he keeps alive the chacters fans had grown to know. All of the originals are back and their personalities come through the writing. Buffy for example has been modeled on the personality seen in the series and you imagine Sarah Gellar saying some of the lines. The story in itself revolves around Buffy and her army of slayers. After the events of the series all potential slayers are now fully fledged superheroes! We see how they operate with Xander acting as a watcher to all of them. At first Willow is missing somwhere but she comes back soon enough. The gang are set up in a castle in Scotland aswel as some smaller baser around the world. There are two other fake Buffy's acting to confuse the vamps to her whereabouts. One is underground somewhere and one is in Italy. Fans of Angel the series will notice that the one in Italy was mentioned in an episode and Angel! The story continues to involve a witch called Amy who had survived the Sunnydale incident, for the majority of the Buffy series Amy was a rat after one of her spells went wrong. Shes evil now anyway and has seemingly teemed up with a mysterious organisation that are plotting against the slayers due to fear of their power! Also Amy has gotter herself a new boyfriend, I wont say who he is but he was heavily featured in the later seasons of Buffy. All in all I very much enjoyed the script and found it veery creative. It seems as though Whedon had always intended to carry on the story this was rather than creating it just to make money.

The art - Pecicls by Georges Jeanty, Inks by Andy Owens and colours by Dave Stewart. There are also Guest artist for the cover art (Jo Chen) and some bonus drawings at the end! I found the art to be very familiar, it was like watching the series again. The style is quite realistic with a dash of the cartoon charm to it. The demons seem to be much more monsterous as such costmes would have been hard to create with restrictions in the series and it seems the artist have taken advantage of that!

I am a big fan of this book. It ends with you wanting more and dont worry there is, infact there are many graphic novels of Buffy for you to sink your teeth into! I was pleased it retained the charm of the series and felt the story worked well in relation to how the series ended. Those of you who haven't seen the series however will not understand what is going on , so unfortunately this isn't for everyone!

Summary: Awesome!