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Tarfumes.com - Tales of the Slayers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Dark Horse
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Binding: Comic
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781569716052
ISBN: 1569716056
Label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2002-07
Publisher: Dark Horse
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Dark Horse
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Editorial Reviews:
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the latest in a long tradition of young women who've been trained to give their lives in the war against vampires. We've gotten glimpses of these other women over the years on T.V., in comics, and in books. Now for the first time, the writers from the television series, including the show's creator, Joss Whedon, and one of its stars, Amber "Tara" Benson, present the tales of these girls, with the help of comics' greatest artists. Gene Colan, co-creator of Marvel's Blade and Tomb of Dracula, returns to Dark Horse for the story of a young girl in 1970s New York, battling vampires. Tim Sale, artist of recent epics Batman: The Long Halloween and Superman for All Seasons teams with Joss Whedon for a grim tale of a medieval slayer. American comics legend P. Craig Russell (Dr. Strange, The Ring of the Nibelung) and international rising star Mira Friedmann (Actus Tragicus) also join the stellar lineup.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Squeezing money from a stone.
Comment: Not anyone's finest hour. This exploitative collection is nothing more than a quick way to steal hard-earned pocket money from the Whedon-starved masses.
The Espenson/Russell collaboration is the best of the lot, but even it feels like a rejected script from "Season 2" instead of a clever Austen pastiche.
The Whedon/Sale story is predictable and unchallenging, but the Sale art looks good.
The others all feel rushed, and, frankly, boring.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Tales of the Slayers
Comment: I enjoyed reading about some of the past slayers. Some stories are more captavating then others but as a presentation of past history, it's all good. Who knows if some of these slayer stories won't find it's way in the main Buffy story within the conclution of series eight The Long Way Home? Just an idea thrown out there... And yes, I now am thinking of purchasing the Tales of The Vampires comic book as well.
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Summary: If you are a Buffy fan (especially a Fray fan)
Comment: If you are a Buffy fan (especially a Fray fan) then you will love this comic book. Remember the first TV spot for Buffy when they went through the ages: "in 1810 all these people were dying which stopped by the arrival of a young girl named..." Well this comic is most of those stories. The negative is that none of these characters are developed, you just get to see snip-its of their lives. However, it does widen the Buffyverse, so it's a definite read for fans. Also you get to see a bit more of Fray, the future slayer.
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Summary: A Great Buffy Companion
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While this pales in comparison to the current Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight series being put out by Dark Horse now, "Tales of the Slayers" is a treat for the open-minded Buffy fan.
Like any Whedon product, this trade paperback supports a much larger theme than it appears to have. These stories about slayers stretching back over time are about loneliness, solidarity, but at the same time, they're about how each slayer is connected to the slayers of the past. Reading this book can give new perspective on Buffy, Faith, and all of the other slayers shown in the television series.
As a whole, the book is good, but not each individual story is satisfactory. The best in the book are Prologue (Joss Whedon), Righteous (Joss Whedon), Sonnenblume (Rebecca Rand Kirshner), and Tales (Joss Whedon). Righteous is told completely in rhyming verse, and has the most intriguing story and unique slayer of the collection. Sonnenblume has the worst art of the collection, but also one of the most solid stories; a young German girl in 1938 struggles between what her Nazi teachers tell her and what she feels is right. Tales is a treat, as it is about Melaka Fray from Joss Whedon's miniseries "Fray" and it wraps up this collection nicely, paying off to the over-all theme (a complicated one at that) of isolation/togetherness.
Some of the not-so-good stories are The Glittering World (David Fury) and Nikki Goes Down (Doug Petrie). Fury and Petrie are both competent, if not astounding, writers who have made note-worthy contributions to the Buffyverse, particularly Petrie's "Fool for Love" which makes nearly every Buffy top-ten list. However, these two stories in "Tales of the Slayers" seem forced, paced oddly, and suffer from the incoherent narration. Perhaps, had these writers has an entire twenty-two page issue to play their story out, they would have done better. Or maybe they are just better television writers.
To sum it all up, the good outweighs the bad. This is an item that every fan of Joss Whedon's work needs, and it is a great companion to the Buffy series (the television show as well as the comic).
7/10
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Slayer's Must Have
Comment: This is another one of Whedon's greatest!! A must have for any Buffy fan.
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