Reviews
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9, Volume 3 by Georges Jeanty, Andrew Chambliss, Joss Whedon
kazzajozzy's review
3.0
It’s between 3 and 4 stars, I’m really torn
I haven’t loved Buffy season 9, not the way I love it’s counterpart Angel & Faith, but this volume was definitely looking up.
I just have a few issues.
I’ve always felt gross about Dawn and Xander. It just doesn’t make sense for them to be together, but that’s not what gets me. We all know Joss is a piece of shit. And in the show Xander was pretty much a stand in Joss. Joss used him for his own sexist views and inappropriate behaviour. Xander IS Joss. And we’ve also recently learned through Michelle Trachtenberg that she wasn’t allowed to be alone with Joss on set. So if Xander is Joss, and Joss was inappropriate IRL with Michelle, and Joss has now made Xander and Dawn together.. you get the idea. It’s been easier to ignore, but obviously in this edition it was very in my face. And took away from the story for me.
I also felt like the big bad was underwhelming, but I think that was the intention. The focus of the season wasn’t on Simone, it wasn’t the main plot. The main plot was Buffy coming to terms with destroying the seed and understanding the effects of doing that, and making it right. While also trying to find herself. So I wasn’t too mad about Simone.
I also like the full circle moment of this season where we keep going back to the Vampyr book from season 1. It’s clear in this season it’s important, and more evidentially in this edition.
I also have loved seeing Illyria.
The ending is.. intriguing. Interested to see where season 10 takes us!
I haven’t loved Buffy season 9, not the way I love it’s counterpart Angel & Faith, but this volume was definitely looking up.
I just have a few issues.
I’ve always felt gross about Dawn and Xander. It just doesn’t make sense for them to be together, but that’s not what gets me. We all know Joss is a piece of shit. And in the show Xander was pretty much a stand in Joss. Joss used him for his own sexist views and inappropriate behaviour. Xander IS Joss. And we’ve also recently learned through Michelle Trachtenberg that she wasn’t allowed to be alone with Joss on set. So if Xander is Joss, and Joss was inappropriate IRL with Michelle, and Joss has now made Xander and Dawn together.. you get the idea. It’s been easier to ignore, but obviously in this edition it was very in my face. And took away from the story for me.
I also felt like the big bad was underwhelming, but I think that was the intention. The focus of the season wasn’t on Simone, it wasn’t the main plot. The main plot was Buffy coming to terms with destroying the seed and understanding the effects of doing that, and making it right. While also trying to find herself. So I wasn’t too mad about Simone.
I also like the full circle moment of this season where we keep going back to the Vampyr book from season 1. It’s clear in this season it’s important, and more evidentially in this edition.
I also have loved seeing Illyria.
The ending is.. intriguing. Interested to see where season 10 takes us!
queer_universe's review
4.0
Buffy - "Why does that sound like a name Giles lectured me about?"
Willow - "It was a name Giles lecutred you about."
Willow - "It was a name Giles lecutred you about."
heather_palmer's review
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
jaycatt7's review
3.0
Two stories in this volume: Buffy takes a job at Kennedy's new security company, and a kid named Billy learns to fight vampires.
The Buffy/Kennedy story is ok. Nothing spectacular, but it shows us a little more of the world.
As for Billy the Vampire Slayer... I often find myself disappointed by portrayals of gay people. They rarely live up to the hype. This story was a string of cliches. It was cute, but there was no substance. Getting a gay character into the Buffyverse would have meant something back when this was a TV show. Now? I feel like, yet again, we got the representation the last generation needed, too late to do any good.
Actually, that 'low on substance' remark fits the whole volume. Maybe the whole season.
Billy's story was what kept me reading these comics. I'm not sure I'll keep going. The quality is continually disappointing.
The Buffy/Kennedy story is ok. Nothing spectacular, but it shows us a little more of the world.
As for Billy the Vampire Slayer... I often find myself disappointed by portrayals of gay people. They rarely live up to the hype. This story was a string of cliches. It was cute, but there was no substance. Getting a gay character into the Buffyverse would have meant something back when this was a TV show. Now? I feel like, yet again, we got the representation the last generation needed, too late to do any good.
Actually, that 'low on substance' remark fits the whole volume. Maybe the whole season.
Billy's story was what kept me reading these comics. I'm not sure I'll keep going. The quality is continually disappointing.
mashara's review
3.0
It was ok. I never much liked Kennedy, and Willow and Spike are gone, so not entirely much there for me, but it was ok. Is nice to see Buffy making her own decisions about what she wants her life to be and what not.
She's coming together as a person and accepting who she is, and feeling comfortable in her skin and, at least in my experience, that's more likely to happen in your 30s than your 20s.
She's coming together as a person and accepting who she is, and feeling comfortable in her skin and, at least in my experience, that's more likely to happen in your 30s than your 20s.
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