Whedon’s second full arc continues with a look into what Fray was doing before Buffy arrived. I’m usually irritated when TV/Comics rewind time and lead up to the same cliffhanger (Lost, for instance, did this all the time through the maddening Season 3) so I’m glad to see that Whedon keeps the retreads to a [...]

Despite the novelty value of seeing Brian K. Vaughan or Drew Goddard’s take on Buffy: Season 8, there’s nothing quite the same as seeing Joss Whedon in full command of his creations. This latest arc actually brings in an extra creation too - the future slayer, Fray, once seen in her own mini-series, and the [...]

The final part of Wolves at the Gate cements it as perhaps the weakest story since the first arc, but even so, that’s only because the standard of the series is ridiculously high. Goddard wrote some great episodes of the TV series, and his enthusiasm for the characters has carried over into his comics story, [...]

The Whedon/Cassaday run on X-Men has been an absolute highlight of the franchise for a good 4 years now. Admittedly, it’s only put out two years of stories in that time, but when it’s this good, is it really worth complaining? In any case, the point is now moot because from now on, the story [...]

As we all know, being happy and in love in a Joss Whedon universe is about as healthy for you as eating deadly nightshade stuffed with razorblades. The more the audience finds themself liking a character, the greater chance there is that they’re about to be neatly shuffled off the mortal coil in the most senseless and random [...]

Last night, I watched a Buffy episode where, a mere 6 years into the program, she reveals that the first time she told her parents about vampires, they freaked out and put her into a mental hospital. Then, conveniently, nobody mentioned it ever again up until the point where Buffy needed to bring it up. [...]