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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 Volume 6: Retreat
Buffy Season Eight Volume 6 showcases thе first failure οf thе Slayer band. Vampires hаνе solid footing аt thе top οf thе totem аnd Slayers hаνе bееn crushed tο thе bottom – іn small, nο one lіkеѕ Buffy anymore… lеаѕt οf аll thіѕ season’s mysterious Hυgе Tеrrіblе, Sundown, whο іѕ hot οn hеr magical trail! Now thаt іt’s thе world against Slayers, Buffy mυѕt find a way tο return thе status quo tο… status quo – аnd keep hеr girls alive long enough tο dο іt! Enter Oz, thе οnlу person/werewolf Buffy
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Beat a Retreat,
Season 8 keeps getting more and more disconnected from itself, as the storyline moves from the lamentable Buffy meets Fray arc, into the rise of Harmony in “Predators and Prey,” and now this, possibly the most depressing storyline since Buffy first went to institution. I thought the Scottish slayer castle was dire, but having Buffy and the slayers hit the Himalayas for a crash course in Tibetan Buddhism, under the auspices of Seth Green, reaches a new high of just plain weird. The slayers must give up their magick powers in order to avoid the all-seeing stare of Amy, Warren and Sundown. But the gambit never seems to work, despite the mole Buffy has positioned within the ranks of the Sundown gang. I never understood what they had done incorrect, but the tale just sweeps on lacking regard to logic, sense or even taste.
And what happened to Jeanty? I know Faith was in the tale, but after comic #1, he has completely lost his ability for drawing her. Every couple of panels I stopped, wondering, who was *that* girl, maybe she was Faith. But I could never be sure. I reckon Jane E. was also fumbling a small bit at the level of script, so that here really wasn’t much for Faith to do anyway. Maybe Faith must have gone Buddhist, taught Oz how not to be a werewolf, married him, and had his adorable baby in a sack, because Oz’s wife got most of the huge storyline here. Constantly hissing and whispering to Oz, “I do not like it, Ozito, those white girls from your past will bring a tsunami of distress down on our heads and baby.” Worst thing of all, she’s aptly every time.
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Retreat, the sixth collected volume of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight, finds Buffy and her crew of scoobies and Slayers on the run, as the mysterious Sundown starts to set sights on them all for what may be a final killing blow. Seeking sanctuary with Oz, who has since found peace and happiness, it soon becomes clear that the worst is indeed yet to come. One thing that I’ve noticed since Buffy Season Eight came to fruition is that Joss and his revolving team of writers take advantage of the Buffy-verse being comic book based, with enough wild clowning around and action to satisfy comic readers of any and every age, regardless of being a Buffy fan or not. But, even as veteran series writer Jane Espenson manages to inject enough crackling energy into this storyarc, by the time it reaches its conclusion it feels like it’s just too much, and comes close to feeling like it isn’t Buffy at all. Not to mention the fact that Georges Jeanty’s artwork appears to be waning a bit in terms of how much his renderings of the show’s cast reflect their real life counterparts. Still though, Retreat offers up enough goodies for Buffy addicts to dig, and with that in mind, here’s hoping that Season Eight keeps going on strong.
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