Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

author: 
Whedon, Joss (script)
Jeanty, Georges (pencils)
Lee, Paul (pencils, "The Chain")

The Long Way Home, which I got from the Miami-Dade Public Library via Columbia interlibrary loan, takes up where the tv show leaves off, more or less. So far having read the first and third installment, I haven't really learned much about what happened immediately after the destruction of the hellmouth and Sunnydale, just that Buffy, the surviving Scoobies, and the potentials have relocated to Europe. And that somehow along the way, Dawn got turned into a giant, which is possibly some kind of mystical STD.

Like Wolves at the Gate, The Long Way Home retains the show's voice and characterizations, but the drawings look a lot less like the actors, which I guess is strange because it's the same artist. I found this one a little harder to follow, as well. The scenes switch back and forth, sometimes from dream to reality, as well. I'm not an accomplished comics reader, though, so don't take my word for much.

reviewdate: 
May 23 2009
isn: 
978-1-59307-822-5

Comments

#1 c-dog

miami-dade public library! my childhood stomping grounds!

#2 Jeremy

Didn't know you were a Buffy fan, too, Jenna! Welcome to the cult.... :)

I like the comics well enough, but they just don't ring really true to me. There's a big difference between one Slayer and her small group of friends fighting evil in one little town, and Buffy commanding an army with high-tech weaponry and computers and what-not and fighting all over the world. The tone is too different from the show for me to be *that* appealing.

You might try volume 2, "No Future For You". The writer has a really good ear for the voices of both Faith and Giles.

And now you see how I entertain myself on slow afternoons over here in Iowa.... :)

Take care, Jenna,
Jeremy