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| Cover Artist: Art Adams |
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| Regular photo cover |
| Writer: | Andi Watson |
| Penciller: | Joe Bennett |
| Inker: | Rick Ketcham |
| Letterer: | Janice Chiang |
| Colorist: | Guy Major |
| Format: | Comic |
| Details: | 32 pages - $2.95 US |
| Published: | September 23, 1998 |
| Publisher: | Dark Horse |
| Story: | Wu-Tang Fang |
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Whatever concerns I had with
MacGuffins, wasn't exactly put at ease with the opening page of Buffy's own # 1.
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| It's not the semi-bimbo Ross gave us, but Bennett's opening Buffy isn't exactly oozing nailed-it either. |
Thankfully writer Andi Watson only use a couple of pages to convince me he's nailed-it. He's captured the essence of Buffy in every way. I find myself hearing the lines as spoken by the actors and actresses them self in the TV-show, and a bigger complement is impossible to give. He understands the humor, he get the banter and puns in whether it's dialogue or fight scenes, and it balances the dark and the light in Whedonesque fashion. Add several small and bigger references to prior events and current circumstances in the TV-series, and it's pretty clear Mr. Watson and the editor knows exactly what is needed.
The artwork also draw me in as page by page run by, and soon enough it's familiar and almost
there. The darkness and shadows are very well done, the bad guys and fight scenes are well drawn and only a few of the main characters remain an issue for me every so often. It still can't take away the joy of this comic, with its story that adds to the well known and familiar TV-series with a well deserved new life on its comic own.
Overall there's no doubt this is an incredible tight opening issue of own comic, and must have brought in a lot of the TV-audience as sure buyers for future releases.
★★★★☆ # 1 -Wu-Tang Fang-
Special and alternate variants I also own:
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| COA for Dynamic Forces Art cover signed by Art Adams as one of 10.000 copies. The comic used as header for this post. |
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| Another Universe exclusive Gold Foil edition of photo cover |
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| Another Universe exclusive Gold Foil edition of photo cover, signed by Joe Bennett (COA below) |
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| Dark Horse 1 for 1 re-release |
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