Then of course, there is the last page reveal of the villain in the future world. I suppose I should have seen it coming, but I was looking in a different direction and was quite surprised by what I saw there. And of course, it creates several questions that I am dying to learn more in the next parts of the arc. One thing I have learned over the course of Season 8 is that while it always seems there aren't enough pages left in an arc to complete the story, this series has continually delivered the goods, so I'm ready to see what is coming next. Read Full Review

Holy. Crap. Kinda didn't see that one coming, I can tell you. This issue's art is handled by Fray's co-creator, Karl Moline, and he does pretty impressive work here, aside from having issues making Willow look like Alysyn Hannygyn (or however one spells it.) The action sequences really worked for me, and Dawn & Xander's facial expressions during the "You'll have to ride me" scene are hysterical. Buffy looks enough like Sarah Michelle that you can hear her speaking the dialogue, while Fray (who doesn't have an actress archetype, at least that I'm aware of) looks as much like a real woman as Buffy. Joss plays with the Buffy conventions here, having Ms. Summers flummoxed by FRay's language, which is essentially an extension of her own verbal fluidity, while noting that future Manhattan is more like Buffy's idea of it that the current edition. It's a very good issue, with a VERY surprising ending (though, I suppose I ain't the first to spoilers it online) and now I'm real Read Full Review