At its heart, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 #1 is a deft introductory book for the new season that lays out a few key points while letting Gage and Isaacs get their feet wet. It's a must buy if you're going into this series anew, or if you've been keeping up with the series since the start, but those who have waited six long months for this book may be somewhat disappointed by the slim pickings.

It's not often that you see an action sequence commandeer a book for 11 pages (out of 36). It's not often that a writer will have enough faith in their abilities, in the skill of their collaborators, and in their reader's ability to keep up, but once again faith is rewarded and the reader is left thrilled and off-balance in the best possible way.

So, to recap: having sex with chicken's is wrong, I'm a dick and God Hates Astronauts is apparently like Top Secret!,Axe Cop,Arrested Development (not the band, sorry),Sex Criminals… lets sayThe Astronaut Farmer to cover all of my basesand there was something about Einstein, so I guess that counts as a comparison to The Manhattan Projects too. It's a good book, is what I'm saying.

Despite my lack of familiarity with Reynolds' work, it manages to feel familiar and quite original. Characters look like a mix between Johnny Quest and Archer with bold black lines and Reynolds' silhouette style and the way that it teams up with black, blue, purple, and green colored skies conspire to convey extreme depth for a real slice of visual WOW.