Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Rebekah Isaacs
Colourist: Dan Jackson
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

Giles was always my favourite character in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, but now, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer #3 Season 11, he’s still trapped in the body of a thirteen-year-old geek and it just does not seem right.

Joss Whedon never inflicted such atrocities on Anthony Head in the TV series, so why does it persist in the comic book? But then, I guess a lot has changed since Sarah Michelle pined over tall, dark and brooding David Boreanaz before he went off to play with Bones and went off the boil at the same time.

Spike (always my favourite character and someone who really knew how to rock a really bad English accent) is now Buffy’s official boyfriend but the rest of the Scooby Gang are also here, Willow, Dawn and Xander, helping to keep America safe after a supernatural attack has devastated San Francisco and any magical beings who didn’t skedaddle are being rounded up into an internment camp known as the “Safe Zone”. Who said irony was dead?

The Slayer Peacekeepers taking on the role of the state-sanctioned bad guys and when they come to arrest Spike and Willow, Buffy not only goes ballistic, she decides that the only way to stay with her blood-sucking squeeze is to go to the Safe Zone right along with him.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #3 Season 11 is the latest instalment in a long-running plotline which will no doubt be hailed as something that will change the Slayer’s universe forever, such is the magnitude of the events taking place. It’s a far cry from the monster of the week scenarios that we are more used to on episodic TV shows of the same nature and if anyone can pull it off, it’s the Scooby Gang.

However, be careful what you wish for because once you’ve gone this route it’s a long way back and whatever changes are made now, for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will be around for a long time to come. For now, though, stick with it for the fun, the thrills and the blood sucking!

 

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker