not too shabby. good rentered drawings and keeps to TV show plotlines. ( )

I thought that this was a nice little incert into the story line, but I wasn't wow'd by this book. I think it was a little dry. ( )

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz, writer Dan Brereton and artist Hector Gomez pit Buffy against Lilith, the mother of vampires. The overall story resembles the type of storytelling found in the first couple seasons of the show, with a big bad coming to town and Buffy and the Scooby Gang investigating before ultimately beating them. It feels like a media tie-in and later Buffy comics developed more mature story arcs, but it's enjoyable in a nostalgic way. Gomez's art is very much of the late-1990s and indicative of the type of work at Dark Horse Comics at that time. The stylized nature might turn off some readers, but I feel it works given the book's nature as a sort of time capsule. Whether or not you've kept up with the current comics, if you like the show, it will entertain you. ( )

This is the first Buffy book/comic that I have read. The story followed a similar format to one of the TV show episodes, with the introduction of a new baddie, investigation of the baddie, and defeat of the baddie. It was self contained once you knew who the basic characters were. I enjoyed the story, the baddies were intriguing - and the means of their demise interesting.

But the drawing! It was terrible! Well, it's not that it was bad art, but the characters hardly resembled their on screen versions. I had a lot of difficulty recognising the three main girls (Buffy, Willow, and Cordelia.) And all the male characters were wearing oddly tight pants. ( )