Nerdopolis

Buffy fans rejoice! Season eight is finally here, and it’s off to a great start. Starting more than a year after season seven, “The Long Way Home” is the first arc for the much anticipated season eight, and it’s easy to see that The Scoobies haven’t been sleeping on the job. After the events of the TV series finale, the Slayers now number in the thousands worldwide, and the gang has been busy recruiting and training them for their ongoing war against evil.

Issue 1 starts off with Buffy taking to the frontlines, leading a squad of Slayers up against a trio of truly terrific demons and setting up a mystery that we’ll surely be chasing after all season. While Buffy’s out doing what she does best, the Nick Fury-esque Xander stays behind at Slayer Command Central in Scotland, watching over little sister Dawn, who is dealing with a big problem of her own. Meanwhile the US Military is investigating the crater that used to be Sunnydale in hopes of finding something that’ll help them against the “Slayer Army” that they fear, and find something they do.

The art in this series is pretty amazing, the characters actually look like their on-screen counterparts, which is a big plus. The writing is great and the dialog between characters really feels like it belongs in an episode of Buffy, which it should, seeings how Joss Whedon is doing the first story arc.

I really can’t wait to see where this series heads in the future, but we can be sure that without the constraints of a tv show budget, it’ll be bigger and badder than we’re used to.

Rating: 5 out of 5

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