A review by mrsthrift
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Predators and Prey by Doug Petrie, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jane Espenson, Joss Whedon, Jim Krueger
3.0
The fifth installment of Buffy: Season Eight. Dawn is a porcelain doll. Buffy has a face off with Simone, who rules an island of slayers (??). Harmony has a reality tv show (???). Giles & Faith are visiting a "slayer haven" in like, England or something. Buffy's les-faux experimentations are starting to catch up with her and cause a lil drama and heartbreak. Also, there's a giant spidery thing that Andrew may have invented, and some vamp kitty dolls that are hella dangerous AND cute.
I love the big picture of the S8 storyline, and these volumes have some significant, wonderful and hilarious moments but it also is starting to feel like the slayer underground is all power and no plan. Buffy's not able to harness or control the slayer army, their public relations are in the toilet and only getting worse, and can anyone explain how Harmony has survived to this point, because she's kind of a braindead character and I don't think she can continually luck into being such a Big Bad. I like Buffy as a bisexual, but her character is so overbooked saving the world and trying to wrangle the slayers into line and trying to dodge the bad publicity / terrorist rap sheet, she doesn't have time to work out all of her sexuality issues.
I love the big picture of the S8 storyline, and these volumes have some significant, wonderful and hilarious moments but it also is starting to feel like the slayer underground is all power and no plan. Buffy's not able to harness or control the slayer army, their public relations are in the toilet and only getting worse, and can anyone explain how Harmony has survived to this point, because she's kind of a braindead character and I don't think she can continually luck into being such a Big Bad. I like Buffy as a bisexual, but her character is so overbooked saving the world and trying to wrangle the slayers into line and trying to dodge the bad publicity / terrorist rap sheet, she doesn't have time to work out all of her sexuality issues.