Buffy The Vampire Slayer Retreat Part II #27
Written by Jane Espenson.
Art by Georges Jeanty, Andy Owens, and Michelle Madsen.
Vampires hot, Slayers not
Harmony, the bubblegum cheerleader from Sunnydale High whose ambitions include blood sucking and stardom with her own reality television series. The television is all Paris Hilton-like not without the cheerful banter while holding a lapdog. HARM‘s television series has encouraged the popularization of Vampires which in turn, those who want to see them vampires dusted, AKA Slayers, are now the enemy.
If you have not read the HARM issues (#21 A), it begins a start of a new world where vampires are in and Slayers are out. The public start to see the vampires in new light while ignoring the shadows and consequences. Vampires are hip, hot — very hot.
But the public are not the only ones who want to end the Slayer’s mission, there is a sleeper character, Twilight.
Twilight, a character slowly introduced and so far Buffy has had only one single encounter (I do not count dreams as encounters). But Twilights is around, always around. The first introduction is where he is overlooking Buffy’s headquarters in Scotland. Here is the list of comic book Twilight stalking and activity.
- The Long Way Home, Part I
- No Future For You, Part IV
- A Beautiful Sunset
- Time of Your Life, Part I
- Time of Your Life, Part IV
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Retreat Part I – V are a directly in effect by Harmony’s Reality Series with a hip Vampire lifestyle and Twilights desire to kill all demons (which include all Slayers). Therefore it has become a very active anti-Slayer world. The slayers are in fact hiding or in full retreat (depending on your definition). Old friends such as Faith, Andrew and Satsu are forced to return to Buffy’s HQ, who are much the same as them under siege from Twilight’s forces, humans and demons. Defenses fall as the Scottish castle comes under attack. They seek help from an old friend and Willow’s last boyfriend before coming out, Oz.
If you have not been following Buffy and the Scooby gang development, Oz left Sunnydale to seek control over his werewolf side. He succeeds. But now has Hulk like transformation into a werewolf (anger or pain).
Twilight can now track the group through their use of magic, Buffy and her friends relocate to Tibet to learn from Oz how to suppress magical natures for witches and Slayers alike. Giles and Buffy are both concerned with the extent to which they rely on Willow, worried she may go overboard again as in Season Six; Buffy’s fears are in part justified by her visit to the future (a crossover with the series Fray) where she was forced to kill a future Dark Willow.
1st Printing
Two Covers
The first cover, on left, is 2009 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Cover (Artist-Jo Chen).
Comic Book Specifics
40 pages
full color.
Price : $ 2.99
