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sdelmonteNot much of a week, but I didn't offer my thoughts on The Spirit yet, so it's a good time to catch up.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season Eight 6 - Faith, still a fugitve, stuck in Cleveland, and apparently just barely part of the new slayer order, gets a visit from Giles. He needs her to take down a rogue slayer, a spolied brat member of the English aristocracy. If she survives, and if she actually learns how to infiltrate high society, Giles has promised her a very generous early retirement incentive. Only what is the connection between the rogue and the mysterious bad guys? And why did Giles undertake this mission in secret?
For many reading this issue, it's their first exposure to the work of Brian K. Vaughan. BKV is of course the man who gave us Runaways, Y - The Last Man and Ex Machina, and is one of the single most talented scriptwriters in comics. The script seems to flow here, with characters in perfect voice but also with some hard-to-pin element in the tale that was missing in the Joss-scripted issues. It's not that Joss can't write his own creations. It's just that BKV seems totally comfortable with them as comic book characters in a way even Joss isn't.
The art is a bit stronger, but Jeanty still struggles with some faces. His Giles is consistent and good, his Faith inconsistent. He also throws in a rather nice cameo on the next to last page that might make another fandom squee, a little.
The Spirit 9 - The origin of the not-so-dead Alvaro Mortez, aka El Morte. The story is chilling and creepy and gripping. The art is great. And the narration? We hear the tale from the POVs of the Spirit, Ebony, Commissioner Dolan, and three members of the Mortez family, and that's maybe two too many voices. But it's great to get inside the heads of Dolan and Ebony, and overall Cooke avoids too many of the cliches of the origin story, and sets up what should be a great final three months.
Alas, Cooke has given his notice, saying he's having problems with DC overall and that with the departure of his inker, J. Bone, he is ready to move on. I wish it weren't true, but we can revel in what we've had till now and what will come the rest of the way.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season Eight 6 - Faith, still a fugitve, stuck in Cleveland, and apparently just barely part of the new slayer order, gets a visit from Giles. He needs her to take down a rogue slayer, a spolied brat member of the English aristocracy. If she survives, and if she actually learns how to infiltrate high society, Giles has promised her a very generous early retirement incentive. Only what is the connection between the rogue and the mysterious bad guys? And why did Giles undertake this mission in secret?
For many reading this issue, it's their first exposure to the work of Brian K. Vaughan. BKV is of course the man who gave us Runaways, Y - The Last Man and Ex Machina, and is one of the single most talented scriptwriters in comics. The script seems to flow here, with characters in perfect voice but also with some hard-to-pin element in the tale that was missing in the Joss-scripted issues. It's not that Joss can't write his own creations. It's just that BKV seems totally comfortable with them as comic book characters in a way even Joss isn't.
The art is a bit stronger, but Jeanty still struggles with some faces. His Giles is consistent and good, his Faith inconsistent. He also throws in a rather nice cameo on the next to last page that might make another fandom squee, a little.
The Spirit 9 - The origin of the not-so-dead Alvaro Mortez, aka El Morte. The story is chilling and creepy and gripping. The art is great. And the narration? We hear the tale from the POVs of the Spirit, Ebony, Commissioner Dolan, and three members of the Mortez family, and that's maybe two too many voices. But it's great to get inside the heads of Dolan and Ebony, and overall Cooke avoids too many of the cliches of the origin story, and sets up what should be a great final three months.
Alas, Cooke has given his notice, saying he's having problems with DC overall and that with the departure of his inker, J. Bone, he is ready to move on. I wish it weren't true, but we can revel in what we've had till now and what will come the rest of the way.
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