waveycowpar's review
5.0
I thought the first half was good!
The government has rounded up magical beings and are building a machine to drain their supernatural powers.
Humans and demons are given the opportunity to relinquish themselves of their powers in order to leave the safe zone (which is within the Grand Canyon).
Buffy and Willow take the deal and lose their powers.
This leads to one of the most painful moments of Buffy history. Buffy sees a man picking on a woman. She intervened but he knows she was a Slayer and now isn’t. They fight and she holds her own, but then gets beaten up and later cries behind a tree while government drones watch. It’s like when she turned 18 and the council temporarily took her powers, but even more heartbreaking.
Then Buffy and Willow (with Faith’s help, and Riley and Sam for a bit) break into the Grand Canyon facility and steal back their powers. They release the prisoners.
A village is wiped out by camps near the camp. But it was a government set up and ploy to use their device to steal magic from anyone who has it. This would mean Spike, Angel and Dawn’s certain death.
Buffy and co. Investigate and find a high ranking US government official behind it all. She gives all the surrendered power to herself and draws on the dragon again.
Then Buffy takes back the powers of all the Slayers on earth. She has 1,000 Slayer’s power in her, including Faith’s, and can defeat the bad guys.
One girl in all the world again!!
She later restores Faith’s power and then the Slayers that worked in the Grand Canyon facility, and were crap to Buffy, come knocking for their power back. Buffy gives it to them after they promise to use it right and it seems like Buffy will be the lead slayer again, watching out for all the others.
The government has rounded up magical beings and are building a machine to drain their supernatural powers.
Humans and demons are given the opportunity to relinquish themselves of their powers in order to leave the safe zone (which is within the Grand Canyon).
Buffy and Willow take the deal and lose their powers.
This leads to one of the most painful moments of Buffy history. Buffy sees a man picking on a woman. She intervened but he knows she was a Slayer and now isn’t. They fight and she holds her own, but then gets beaten up and later cries behind a tree while government drones watch. It’s like when she turned 18 and the council temporarily took her powers, but even more heartbreaking.
Then Buffy and Willow (with Faith’s help, and Riley and Sam for a bit) break into the Grand Canyon facility and steal back their powers. They release the prisoners.
A village is wiped out by camps near the camp. But it was a government set up and ploy to use their device to steal magic from anyone who has it. This would mean Spike, Angel and Dawn’s certain death.
Buffy and co. Investigate and find a high ranking US government official behind it all. She gives all the surrendered power to herself and draws on the dragon again.
Then Buffy takes back the powers of all the Slayers on earth. She has 1,000 Slayer’s power in her, including Faith’s, and can defeat the bad guys.
One girl in all the world again!!
She later restores Faith’s power and then the Slayers that worked in the Grand Canyon facility, and were crap to Buffy, come knocking for their power back. Buffy gives it to them after they promise to use it right and it seems like Buffy will be the lead slayer again, watching out for all the others.
al_capwned's review
3.0
I was expecting a better finale for this season. It's probably the best one in the comics, so it deserved a better ending.
caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review
5.0
Okay they're still letting that George whoever do art for an issue or two which just doesn't make sense cause Rebekah Isaacs is soooooo good! But there are a few incredibly moving scenes in this volume, so much so that they make up for the art I don't like in one of the five issues and a finally revealed villain who's not that interesting. Namely, when Buffy, having given up her superpowers to escape an internment camp for people with magic, has a run-in with a guy who's harassing a woman. She moves in to protect the woman, fights this huge beefy guy (sans slayer powers) -- at first you think she's lost the fight, and then she's winning and losing control and beating the shit out of the guy, and breaking down in the park afterwards about what she might have done. Then Faith arrives out of the blue to help Buffy ("What up. Everyone down with the revolution?") just when Buffy needs her most. 😢 Plus, Spike and Buffy are just too cute together. (B: "I didn't forget, y'know." S: "Mmm, forget what?" B: "I love you too.") ❤🧛♂️
stephgrani's review
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
calistareads's review
4.0
The previous volume was a better story, but this gives a good conclusion to what was set up. It feels rushed and it seems they could have drawn this out for another volume, but they wrapped it up neatly and quickly. They figure everything out super fast. I guess 2 volumes was enough for them, but 3 might have worked better. Giles is not in this one as he is in his own story arc at this time. We also don't see as much of Xander and Dawn as usual.
Willow throws around some big magic again in this one. I think she is possibly my favorite character. At this point we have lost many of the little characters that showed up in this series and it's down to our core scooby gang.
I thought this was a good storyline over-all and I'm glad I have stuck with this series. There is only 1 volume in Season 12 and that is the finale. It's all about done for the slayer, until the TV series shows up and brings a new gang together. The Buffy verse is a fun world to be apart of.
Willow throws around some big magic again in this one. I think she is possibly my favorite character. At this point we have lost many of the little characters that showed up in this series and it's down to our core scooby gang.
I thought this was a good storyline over-all and I'm glad I have stuck with this series. There is only 1 volume in Season 12 and that is the finale. It's all about done for the slayer, until the TV series shows up and brings a new gang together. The Buffy verse is a fun world to be apart of.
sparkleboymatty's review
4.0
This wasn't my favourite issue but in the end it was good, if a little anti-climatic. Dragon was cool.
libraryanned's review
4.0
3.5 stars. Good conclusion to the story, but I wanted more from the season after really enjoying season 10.
daisymoon's review
4.0
This season could have been longer, and would have been better if it had. We could have seen the consequences of those new laws, we could have met new characters, seen more of the old ones (I mean, basically this was a Willow, Buffy and Spike story more than anything) and dwelled a little more on the meaning of the story. But it still was pretty good.