Buffy the Vampire Slayer #8 is a promising, if slight, beginning for the first Buffy/Angel crossover.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #8 is a promising, if slight, beginning for the first Buffy/Angel crossover.
It’s a fun contrast to Strange’s recent cosmic adventures.
As weird as things get in the course of the chapter, Aaron manages to keep it from ever overpowering the heroism of the team.
Angel #4 is competently made, but feels slight and perfunctory.
Keeping the action within the Spider-family gives Absolute Carnage #2 tight focus and clear stakes.
A supernatural adventure which tilts the traditional ghost story on its head somewhere between Hell and everything else.
This is where Vampirella's story starts to get wild. Writer Christopher Priest, artist and colorist Ergün Gündüz, and letterer Willie Schubert take Vampirella on an adventure that can only be described as bizarre and bloody. Very bloody. What more would you expect from an alien vampire?
Hazy wasteland poetics rumble through the opening chapter.
Genuinely groundbreaking storytelling
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #7 from Boom! Studios takes a break from the ensemble-based format of the first six issues to focus entirely on Willow.
Seven issues complete, and yet nothing has been accomplished.
There’s solid work in Angel #3, but it’s a shame the book is hamstrung by the constraints of a reboot that mostly serves the needs of another book.
Jason Aaron crafts an enjoyable pop fusion of demonic horror and superhero team action.
The messy grittiness of a police assault on a rural human trafficking outpost feels weird and stringy.
Who is General Reginald Fortean and how and why did he become such a powerful threat
Two of Marvel’s most blood thirsty anti-heroes cross paths
This is another solid issue of raising stakes and adding complications in a compelling new direction for the Buffy franchise; it’ll be interesting to see how it all pays off, if at all.
Seemingly sent from the gods to fulfill their destiny on this book, the art team is Perfection
The creative team is doing compelling work in Angel #2, but something is still missing.
Young and Corona dive a bit further into the shadowy horror fantasy of a very distinctive small-town American fantasy world.