This is a great opener for another season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fans are definitely going to want to read Season 9 (at the least, Season 8 if you want to be hardcore) to pick up on some of the subtleties of the dialogue. But anyone remotely familiar with the series will find a lot of things they recognize, and will enjoy the fact that our little girl lives on.

Anyone suffering from team-fatigue and looking for a single-character series should definitely pick up Daredevil #1. If you're just coming into the new Daredevil relaunch, this week's book isn't a bad place to start as it's all about new beginnings. If you don't want to walk into it blindly, check out at the Wade's earlier 36-issue volume (Sept 2011-Jan 2013) or the 4-part Daredevil: Road Warrior digital that runs right into this #1. Wherever you start, I promise you won't be disappointed.

When you're breaking into a market or genre that's alreadyreally saturated, you've got to set yourself apart from the others. The Fallen has that potential, but I think they missed the mark in this first book. What saves it for me here is the artwork. And the price " for $.99, I'm willing to stick with it and see how the story progresses in book #2.