{"id":820,"date":"2011-04-04T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2017-05-27T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:06:03","slug":"buffy-season-8-arc-1-of-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/buffy-season-8-arc-1-of-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffy Season 8: Arc 1 of 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Buffy Season 8<\/cite> was the first proper monthly comic I started reading. I had loved the show, and Angel and figured: &#8220;It&#8217;s canon, I should read it&#8221;. I also started reading <cite>Angel<\/cite>, <cite>Spike<\/cite> and the various other Buffy-verse spin-offs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy01-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Buffy01\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-823\" srcset=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy01-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy01.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It started off quite strong but towards the end I started to get really pissed off at it. Having read it over the course of 4 years with big gaps at some points I am re-reading it again.<\/p>\n<h2>Arc 1 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Long_Way_Home_%28Buffy_comic%29\">The Long Way Home<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>As an introduction this was excellent. Amazingly drawn covers and written by Joss Whedon. Four issues of one story and a one-shot about a Buffy decoy slayer.<\/p>\n<p>The story picks up a few months after the last television series. Buffy and a gang of slayers have relocated to a castle in the Highlands. Dawn is inexplicitly a giant. Willow is awol. The first battle is beating up big demons who had just killed people with a weird scar on their chest. Later it is revealed Giles was on the side of the demons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy03-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Buffy03\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-824\" srcset=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy03-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Buffy03.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amy returns and Warren animated with no skin. It&#8217;s all very weird. You don&#8217;t know if these choices have been made because of how much more freedom for the strange and bizarre when your special effects budget is just more pencils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffy Season 8 was the first proper monthly comic I started reading. I had loved the show, and Angel and figured: &#8220;It&#8217;s canon, I should read it&#8221;. I also started reading Angel, Spike and the various other Buffy-verse spin-offs. It started off quite strong but towards the end I started to get really pissed off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[35,34,32,595,36],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comicsgraphic-novels","tag-angel","tag-buffy","tag-comics","tag-joss-whedon","tag-spike"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}