The Long Way Home (Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1) by
Joss Whedon
Buffy Season 8 Volume 1
Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers - newly legion - have
gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not
everythings fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn
experiences some serious growing pains. Meanwhile, one of the Buffy
decoy slayers is going through major pain of her own. Buffy creator Joss
Whedon brings Buffy back to Dark Horse in this direct follow-up to season
seven of the smash-hit TV series. The bestselling and critically acclaimed
issues #1-5 are collected here for the first time, as are their covers by Jo
Chen and Georges Jeanty.
Personal Review: The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1) by Joss Whedon

The last season of BUFFY was strictly for die-hards, so I wasn't expecting
too much when Joss announced that Dark Horse would print his scripts for
Season Eight. And yet there have been some good stories nevertheless,
even with all the new slayers that basically I could care less about. They
are better than the Potentials of Season Eight, maybe because they're only
pen on paper instead of terrible actresses saying stupid lines.
Making Dawn into a giant humanizes her ironically enough. Whiny and
bratty when played by Michelle Trachtenberg, the new Dawn is still whiny
but her dilemma leads to some great double page panels, and finally she
gives in and tells Xander how she came to be in this fix, though I can't give
away the spoilers. Xander makes a great commander, though it is not
clear to me how he has come to forget all about Anya and has given his
heart to a new slayer. Still, the producers of Season Eight have not
forgotten that we value Xander insofar as his first priority is to Buffy, and
they have given us several good X-saves-B sequences. Willow too.
The sinister menace of Twilight is clearly limned, but the best stroke is the
storyline in which Buffy is branded a terrorist. What a refreshing change
for comic books, in which terrorism is supposed to equal evil (like THE
DARK NIGHT RETURNS) and anything alien is demonic. This storyline is
certainly taking its time, though, isn't it? Has the monumental popularity of
the TWILIGHT vampire series derailed Joss' plans to develop his own
version of Twilight?
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