BUFFY SEASON 8: TIME OF YOUR LIFE

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Volume 4: Time of Your Life, by Joss Whedon, Karl Moline, and Jeff Loeb: Not the strongest part of this series (it doesn’t really further the overarching plot, nor did it have me as enthralled as the awesome return of Dracula in Volume 3), but even if the plot machinations that get Buffy to the future are iffy, I enjoyed the chance to see Fray again—and Karl Moline, the Fray artist, returns to draw that part of the book, making me extra happy. I still wish Season 8 was a TV show, even though I know the whole point of the comic is to do things that would never work on TV. Maybe it’s just that I’m still a comic-book newbie, but I find reading it in comic form awkward; I like the writing, but I’d prefer to see the actors acting it out. Oh god, is that how non-readers feel whenever they’re forced to read a book? Now I’m ashamed.