A review by waveycowpar
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales by Joss Whedon
5.0
So first thing I'm impressed with is the presentation. It's a graphic novel, but it's presented like a book that belongs to high culture not popular culture. There's a jacket cover but the hard cover beneath it is just black with a Buffy B on it and it has a book mark ribbon; fantastic presentation.
The opening introductory story is simple but the artwork is stunning it really draws you in.
The first story is called "Righteous" and though there is a noticeable slip in the artwork standard the entire story is told as a poem, everything rhymes, also it has a shocker of an ending that really sums up Joss Whedon's work in only a few pages! I'm loving it already :)
Amber Benson's story drives a shocking punch to her French Revolution Slayer, leaving the reader reeling at what can happen when a Slayer is manipulated for political purposes.
Jane Espensen's story, the third/fourth in the book is amazing. It's called "Presumption" and totally plays on your prior knowledge of the world of Buffy, and then twists the story fantastically.
And the story of a Slayer at Sunnydale long before Mayor Wilkins founded it in 1899, brilliant!
This constantly surprised me and blew me away with the amazing artwork (not on every story but most of them)
It is full of twists and things you don't see coming!
The opening introductory story is simple but the artwork is stunning it really draws you in.
The first story is called "Righteous" and though there is a noticeable slip in the artwork standard the entire story is told as a poem, everything rhymes, also it has a shocker of an ending that really sums up Joss Whedon's work in only a few pages! I'm loving it already :)
Amber Benson's story drives a shocking punch to her French Revolution Slayer, leaving the reader reeling at what can happen when a Slayer is manipulated for political purposes.
Jane Espensen's story, the third/fourth in the book is amazing. It's called "Presumption" and totally plays on your prior knowledge of the world of Buffy, and then twists the story fantastically.
And the story of a Slayer at Sunnydale long before Mayor Wilkins founded it in 1899, brilliant!
This constantly surprised me and blew me away with the amazing artwork (not on every story but most of them)
It is full of twists and things you don't see coming!