Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 Volume 2: On Your Own (On Your Own Parts 1 & 2, Apart (Of Me) Parts 1, 2 & 3) (2012) (Dark Horse)
Andrew Chambliss (script), Scott Allie (script), Georges Jeanty (pencils), Cliff Richards (pencils), Karl Story (inks), Andy Owens (inks), Dexter Vines (inks), Jo Chen (cover art), Joss Whedon (creator) etc
Grade: B
Genre: Buffy / graphic novel
Source: NetGalley / own
Buffy Season 9: (1) Freefall, (2) On Your Own, (3) Guarded
So, do I reveal the spoiler or not? My initial reaction was ‘yes, of course,’ but that’s my gut reaction to everything: just blurt out whatever’s running through my head. Reviews can get across the message of a book without any spoiler-ing at all, and since that was my frame of mind when I started typing this review, that’s what I’m going with – just to make y’all buy and read the book for yourself. I mean sure, you can probably find the spoiler with the help of our good friend Google without much effort, but I’m just going to be mean and refuse to state it. This is quite possibly my most deliberate spoiler-free review ever.
So at the end of Buffy Season 9 Volume One, Buffy had
something of a problem on her hands. It wasn’t something she had ever had a
problem with before, or even something she had ever considered. The life of a
Slayer is usually too unnaturally short for this to ever become a non-issue,
let alone an issue, and so Buffy is completely lost for what to do. Willow is
still pissed at her for the whole destroying-magic thing and Dawn is happily
settled into life with Xander, and so she turns to her go-to guy when things
start getting tough: Spike.
