-Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz-

Writer:	Dan Brereton
Penciller:	Hector Gomez
Inker:	Sandu Florea
Letterer:	Ken Bruzenak
Colorist:	Guy Major
Format:	Trade Paperback
Details:	80 pages - $9.95 US
Published:	October 14, 1998
Publisher:	Dark Horse
Story:	The Dust Waltz

The Dust Waltz is a rarity. While most trade paperbacks released in the BTVS-series are collections of stories previous released in comic books, this one was released between #1 and #2 of the original series and contains a fresh and previously unreleased story.

I didn't exactly love the art-work here either. While Buffy is athletic, she's not an East-German project, and the latter is what springs to mind with the second drawing above. It gets better, and there's several really good drawings here, but it never quite manages to outlive that first impression. I guess Hector Gomez and Sandu Florea doesn't make my fav-list. Yet, anyway...

The story is better, and the first longer Buffy-story told in comic. Two demonic sisters with sibling issues comes for their own kind of pleasant Hellmouth experience, and our gang is quickly involved. There's banter to be had and demons to kill. It's as usual all sunny in Sunnydale. Still it doesn't quite get there. I guess Dan Brereton doesn't make my list (yet) either. All in all there's more potential than end product over The Dust Waltz.


★★★☆☆ -The Dust Waltz-