Buffy season 11 no 9
Aug. 2nd, 2017 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightThis has been out a few weeks now. If anyone talked about it anywhere, I missed it. Mind you, I've missed most things in the last few weeks.
Anyway...
Spoilers behind cut
...it's still Jeanty on art, which is not good, though I have seen worse from him. Just sorry that it's him that got to draw the Spike/Buffy reunion. I'm sure Rebekah Isaacs would have made it look a lot prettier.
Also, the beginning scene, where Faith fights off the government stooge Slayers while Buffy and Willow try (and succeed) to get their powers back was actually quite an exciting scene and would have benefited no end from being drawn by someone like Isaacs who can actually draw dynamic action scenes. Oh well.
Anyway, they get their powers back, and Buffy has the satisfaction of kicking Jordan's a*se into next week. They then make their escape thanks to a bit of grandstanding magic on Willow's part that knocks out the force field and allows the remaining inmates of the safe zone, including Spike, to escape.
The rest of the issue concerns a diversionary tactic on the part of whoever is behind the whole big-machine-that-sucks-out-everyone's-magic plot of staging a massacre in a small town near the safe zone and implicating Vicki the vampire and her gang of new!vamps. Buffy falls for it at first, but, when Vicki insists she didn't do it, she believes her and tells Vicki and co to keep the authorities busy while Buffy herself goes to the source of everything that's happened which Willow has pinpointed in San Francisco.
Things really have changed, haven't they, with Buffy sort-of allying with Vicki and co. Not sure what to make of this. I do feel it's a temporary thing and it will end (maybe not in season 11) with Buffy killing Vicki. But we'll see. Maybe in the course of defeating theevil vice-president Big Bad something will happen to wipe the new vamps out of existence. Who knows? Anyway, at the moment, they feel like unfinished business, as does Buffy's distinctly frosty relationship with all the other Slayers except Faith.
And only three issues to go. I can't see how Gage can wrap all this up in so few pages and there's no mention yet of a season 12. Hmm.
Anyway...
Spoilers behind cut
...it's still Jeanty on art, which is not good, though I have seen worse from him. Just sorry that it's him that got to draw the Spike/Buffy reunion. I'm sure Rebekah Isaacs would have made it look a lot prettier.
Also, the beginning scene, where Faith fights off the government stooge Slayers while Buffy and Willow try (and succeed) to get their powers back was actually quite an exciting scene and would have benefited no end from being drawn by someone like Isaacs who can actually draw dynamic action scenes. Oh well.
Anyway, they get their powers back, and Buffy has the satisfaction of kicking Jordan's a*se into next week. They then make their escape thanks to a bit of grandstanding magic on Willow's part that knocks out the force field and allows the remaining inmates of the safe zone, including Spike, to escape.
The rest of the issue concerns a diversionary tactic on the part of whoever is behind the whole big-machine-that-sucks-out-everyone's-magic plot of staging a massacre in a small town near the safe zone and implicating Vicki the vampire and her gang of new!vamps. Buffy falls for it at first, but, when Vicki insists she didn't do it, she believes her and tells Vicki and co to keep the authorities busy while Buffy herself goes to the source of everything that's happened which Willow has pinpointed in San Francisco.
Things really have changed, haven't they, with Buffy sort-of allying with Vicki and co. Not sure what to make of this. I do feel it's a temporary thing and it will end (maybe not in season 11) with Buffy killing Vicki. But we'll see. Maybe in the course of defeating the
And only three issues to go. I can't see how Gage can wrap all this up in so few pages and there's no mention yet of a season 12. Hmm.
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Date: 2017-08-03 07:22 am (UTC)This does seem odd. I wonder if there is a cadre of more Buffy-friendly Slayers waiting in the wings? With Kennedy, maybe? It sure doesn't seem like it. I know that the events of S8 left a lot of Slayers rightfully suspicious of Buffy, but surely not ALL of them. *ponders*
It was an exciting issue, wasn't it? This whole season is incredibly on point.
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Date: 2017-08-03 10:14 am (UTC)I have wondered whether it could end with all the Slayers except Buffy and Faith losing their powers again, but I have trouble believing Joss would okay that plot development (assuming he takes any interest at all).
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Date: 2017-08-09 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-09 10:04 am (UTC)