A review by sonofthe
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Time of Your Life by Jeph Loeb, Joss Whedon
4.0
Here we see Buffy thrust into the future, and the Slayer she meets there is apparently from her own comic series.
The future is all science-fictiony, taking some cues from Blade Runner and Star Wars Episode II. Flying cars! Car-jacking. Jumping around all frenetic-like from cars to buildings. Hm. Maybe there's a bit of Stalone Dredd in there too.
The story reads like a mostly stand-alone episode in a TV season, but with a little bit of tie-in. Not having seen the whole TV series, I know there's some stuff I missed, but it still made sense to me.
Ooh, and I forgot about the wild adventures of Xander and Dawn in the forest. Ghost armies and Elf-Ents (ha! get it?). Admittedly, that part was kinda random, but they had to follow through with the set-up.
Then there's the one-shot at the end of this volume: After These Messages…We'll Be Right Back! The art is all Tartakovsky-esque (or something?). Looking it up I found it was a call-back to the proposed Buffy animated series from 2002. Cool! Too bad that never got made.
All in all, a fun volume.
The future is all science-fictiony, taking some cues from Blade Runner and Star Wars Episode II. Flying cars! Car-jacking. Jumping around all frenetic-like from cars to buildings. Hm. Maybe there's a bit of Stalone Dredd in there too.
The story reads like a mostly stand-alone episode in a TV season, but with a little bit of tie-in. Not having seen the whole TV series, I know there's some stuff I missed, but it still made sense to me.
Ooh, and I forgot about the wild adventures of Xander and Dawn in the forest. Ghost armies and Elf-Ents (ha! get it?). Admittedly, that part was kinda random, but they had to follow through with the set-up.
Then there's the one-shot at the end of this volume: After These Messages…We'll Be Right Back! The art is all Tartakovsky-esque (or something?). Looking it up I found it was a call-back to the proposed Buffy animated series from 2002. Cool! Too bad that never got made.
All in all, a fun volume.