| | |  | Toy Figures & Playsets | Home » » » Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #8: No Future For You Part Three (Dark Horse Comics) | | | | | | | Description: | | Faith hits the ground running after she infiltrates the estate of a rogue debutant Slayer. Following a snafu with some gargoyles, the heiress discovers that Faith is also a Slayer and quickly takes her under her wing-exquisite meals, fancy clothes, and a bubble bath later-the two begin plotting the end of the world. That is until Buffy pops in and is confronted by her longtime nemesis, Faith. Certainly, chaos ensues. A smash hit, Season Eight continues to enthrall readers with writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man; Pride of Baghdad; Lost), artist Georges Jeanty (The American Way) and Buffy creator and Executive Producer Joss Whedon all at the helm. Brian K. Vaughan (writer of Lost) takes on Faith in Season Eight. Top-ten seller Buffy #1 went immediately back to press-twice-to satisfy demand . . . totaling over 150,000 copies! Joss Whedon's Season Eight continues! | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Brian K. Vaughan | | Publisher:
| Dark Horse Comics | | Publication Date:
| 2007 | | Package Length:
| 9.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 0.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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 What are they doing to Buffy?Mar 13, 2008
I consider Joss Whedon to be the most potent storyteller since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In Buffy Summers he has created an iconic figure more exciting and loved and cared about than any other in our popular culture.
So what is going on here? Is Joss Whedon trying to undermine his own heroine? Why does he have her overpowered and defeated as it happens in this episode? Conan Doyle never did this to Sherlock Holmes.
To be candid I am baffled and upset. Of course it is a tribute to the artistic power of Joss Whedon and his team that they can provoke such powerful emotional reactions by means of a comic book.But in my case the reaction is so strong that I cannot bear to read any more.
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Faith and Buffy are slugging it out again (and this time they're wet)Nov 07, 2007
One look at Jo Chen's cover painting of Faith drowning Buffy and you have to be thinking of Yogi Berra's infamous saying about it being deja vu all over again. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8" issue #8 brings up Part III of "No Future For You." The story so far is that with almost two thousands Slayers running around in the world some of them were likely to go bad rather than join Buffy's European-based organization. At the top of the rogue Slayer list is Lady Genevieve Savidge, an English aristocrat who will be responsible for bringing on the next Apocalypse (I lost count long ago: how many would that be in the Buffyverse?). Giles, the one-Watcher Watcher's Council, approaches Faith, the original rogue Slayer, to go undercover, crash Lady Genevieve's 19th birthday party, assassinate her, and thereby wipe the slate clean in Giles' book. Giles does the "Pygmalion" bit with Faith, turning her into Hope Lyonne, daughter of the Viscount Avalon. But at the big bash Faith never gets around to killing Genevieve; instead the two hit it off and Genevieve clues in on her master plan, which is to kill the queen. "Hope" thinks Genevieve means Elizabeth II, but the true target is Buffy.
If the cover art for this issue whets your appetite for the next rematch between Buffy and Faith, then rest assured that scripter Brian K. Vaughn, penciler Georges Jeanty, and inker Andy Owens deliver. What you will find here is not quite on the level of the epic battle in "Graduation Day, Part 1" or the flip-side fights in "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You," but we still have one more issue to go in "No Future For You." The storyline necessitates glossing over what happened at the end of the final season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," where Faith and Buffy were fighting side-by-side, but the problem is that the character of Faith is more interesting when she represents the dark side. Vaughn couches the situation in black and white terms for Faith: whenever Buffy is around, Faith is the villain; but as soon as she is gone, Faith becomes the hero. Of course, that just means there needs to be another villain and it is obvious who that is going to be in the final round.
Water is a recurring element in this issue and for those of you who think that there are not enough scenes of Slayers taking a bubble bath together, this issue will provide that titillating scene for your edification. Since "Becoming, Part II" is still the operatic high point for me in the "BtVS" saga, I am happy to see Slayers totting swords again. Meanwhile, back at the castle, Willow and Buffy are discussing the inevitability of a clash between her "terrorist sells" and the military types who are looking for them. At this point we have to be anticipating that they will be the Big Bads for "Season 8, which raises the issue of how Slayers fight humans without crossing the line and slaying them. But in the short term we have a trio of Slayers going "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" route and all trying to kill each other. I still have trouble buying Faith sticking to her undercover routine as a hoity-toity English lady for this long, but once Buffy pops up we are back to familiar territory. The question now is how it will all play out this time and to see if "No Future For You" ends up being better than the first story-arc, "The Long Way Home." At this point odds are it will be.
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 Faith And 'B' Goin' At ItNov 07, 2007
In a recent interview, Brian K. Vaughan told us how hard it was for him to write characters like Buffy and Willow. He said that he was more interested in--and better at--writing darker characters like Faith. Well, whatever initial problems he may have had writing for Buffy certainly don't come across in this issue, because her quips while fighting Gigi (yes, that does happen here, and YES, it is awesome) are some of her best dialogue since... a long time.
The blend of seriousness and comedy is at its best in this issue. I'll lay it out for you. We start with a serious Faith/Gigi conversation, then go to a light-hearted Faith/Gigi conversation. Then, we get a light-hearted Buffy/Willow conversation that begins to turn really serious, and then POOF (you'll get my "POOF" if you read the issue), we get a kick-ass fight, and then a really, really serious Faith/Buffy confrontation. This is the issue that finally puts on the table all of the things we were hoping Buffy and Faith would get into in Season Seven. I won't spoil anything, but it ain't pretty.
This issue also gives us a lot more to chew on that #7 which was, for all intents and purposes, a bridge between #6 and #8. Here, we get an awesome thing about Faith to speculate on, a revelation about how Faith currently sees how her relationship with The Mayor was, and a killer cliff-hanger that will leave us scratching our necks for more like Tyrone Biggums. Vaughan also brings up an issue that we fans have been debating for a long time, since the show was on air. Buffy and company have always been against killing humans... but what happens when humans are the main players in the war against good? Buffy takes a very surprising, sensible, and different stance on this than I would have expected, and the inclusion of her new views (not even a panel) will give us something to talk about until the issue is opened up further.
As for the art, not only does Georges seem to be improving on his likenesses of both Faith and Giles, but this issue also marks the first time he nails Buffy's mannerisms. Her 'movements' are spot-on, and she's coming off as the Buffy we loved in Seasons 1-5, not the Buffy we were frustrated with in 6 & 7. However, we also get bad ass Buffy in action, which Georges seems to be getting better and better at. While the fight scenes in #4 were pretty good, Georges blows that all away with the spectacular Buffy vs. Faith scene. His most interesting character design has to be Gigi; the girl can go from beautiful to scary in a panel--and I don't mean that in a bad way. On the not-so-good side, Georges seems to be getting lazy with Willow. I know she isn't essential to this issue, but she is one of the main four characters in the series, so I don't think it's asking too much to request more detailed and accurate Willow-faceage next issue. And since I liked to end on a plus, I have to add that it's pretty cool that Georges didn't make the tub scene all boobalicious or gratuitous. He kept the integrity and respect that the series always maintained.
For those who love to debate, this issue will scatch you in areas that #7 couldn't. For those who missed bad ass fight scenes, this issue will tickle your pickle. For those who are fiends for spot-on characterization, this issue will salt your fries. For anyone who likes all of the above, your areas, pickles, and fries will all be taken care of by this issue.
9/10
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