| Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat |  | Authors: Jane Espenson, Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty, Andy Owens, Jo Chen
Publisher: Dark Horse
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ISBN: 1595824154
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Publication Date: February 24, 2010
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Buffy Season Eight Volume 6 showcases the first failure of the Slayer legion. Vampires have solid footing at the top of the totem and Slayers have been crushed to the bottom - in short, no one likes Buffy anymore... least of all this season's mysterious Big Bad, Twilight, who is hot on her magical trail! Now that it's the world against Slayers, Buffy must find a way to return the status quo to... status quo - and keep her girls alive long enough to do it! Enter Oz, the only person/werewolf Buffy knows who is down with the suppression of magic, and can take the Slayer army off of Twilight's magic-specific radar. With Oz's assistance the Slayers and Wiccans try to become "normal" through meditation and hard labor - although, not everyone sees the advantage of being magicless, namely, Willow, Giles, and Andrew. And they could be right; after all, is a peaceful life for a Slayer even possible?
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A bit of a disappointment August 31, 2010
Rachel E. Gray (San Francisco, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this volume, as I enjoyed all the others, but not quite as much. It was still worth reading, of course, and there were some parts I loved. There were two very short stories at the end, one featuring Stephen Colbert and one featuring some old friends/foes, that weren't even necessarily good, but they were really fun. And there were some great parts of the main storyline as well, but I just didn't like it as much as I'd hoped.
It simply didn't seem as good as the other volumes have been, particularly the last three, which were amazing and hilarious, but even the first two were better than this one. I think I just didn't like the idea of the story--I think they've tried this before, and found it didn't work. And even if it was new, what would be the point of reading about them if they went through with it? Plus the writing wasn't as funny as usual.
On the other hand, it was nice to see the whole gang back together again--and I'm not even talking about the guest character that they're hanging out with. Giles belongs with Buffy, even if she doesn't need him (as much) any more. He's HER Watcher.
Spoilers
This is not because of how upset I got every time someone said the word (or name?) "spike" in the presence of Twilight, although that really did upset me, whether it's a real clue or a fake clue. (And it had better be a fake clue. OR ELSE.) It just honestly wasn't as good.
 Item NOT received! No Response... August 29, 2010
~Nolovelost~
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I never received this item. I tried to inquire about it and got no response!
 Give me a break June 20, 2010
W. Simonds (Austin, TX United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's just a totally implausible plotline, and there's no recovering from that problem.
We have an army of Slayers, led by Buffy, besieged for twenty-five issues in many different ways.
Their solution? Run away, hide in Tibet, and abandon all their superpowers.
This is simply not a story that can be made to work.
It also flatly defies the whole point of Buffy as a feminist icon who's willing to whatever it takes to face her troubles and beat them down.
Consider the transformation:
Season four Buffy: "Wish me monsters!"
Season eight Buffy: "Give me a quiet life. I yearn to meditate and sweep floors and make soup."
I will say this: Jane Espenson is a much better writer, in terms of individual lines or scenes, than Brad Meltzer -- the writer who succeeds her.
Meltzer is sufficiently problematic that I didn't even bother to *buy* any of his issues (and won't).
No... Wikipedia summaries will do just fine until Whedon comes back to the comic at the end of the season and... maybe... salvages it somehow, although I have my doubts about that, too, based on his most recent performance (Dollhouse season two -- dreadful).
The eighth season is getting worse and worse by moments... June 4, 2010
David Muñoz (Sitges, BCN Spain)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a very big fan of Buffy and Whedon's series, I think that this series is getting worse by every issue that comes out. Number five was ok, and a bit funny because of Harm, but this number is just dull and very boring... it's losing the spirit of the original series of Buffy. The idea of Twilight against Buffy army was very interesting when at the first issues, but this issue is just too bad.... I hope it gets better on the next one.
 Season 8 keeps getting better. April 9, 2010
Virginia J. Haviland (Fayetteville, AR USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Season 8 is still going strong. This series is just amazing. I don't want to say anything story specific because I don't want to give away any spoilers but if you're a Buffy fan you've got to read these. If you're a graphic novel fan but not a Buffy fan, you should give them a shot. The writing and story are top notch.
Hope this helps.
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