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PLOT
And so we venture once more
into the saga that is Bad Blood. Finally Selke and the Doctor's plan to
produce a clone of Buffy has worked, sadly the personality is more in line
with Cordelia, and so the Clone is far more interested in buying clothes and
her face than defeating the Slayer.
Meanwhile the Scooby gang
have been given the task of making a Float, yet can't come up with any good
ideas, although Giles suggests a clown, of course this being Xander's worst
Nightmare Buffy and Willow think they should do something else. Angel
however in trying to find out who the new head vamp is in town has a Vampire
in captive, and is torturing him for info.
As the torturing goes on
Buffy decides to go for a run, only to be attacked by her double. At first
Buffy looks likely to win, when she throws nails into Buffy II's face.
Angered by this though Buffy II fights back, and it looks like she's killed
Buffy. Of course rather than taking her back to Selke, Buffy II is more
concerned with fixing her face and so goes to see the Doc to fix her up.
The
next day Buffy arrives back in school, and as Angel finally works out that
Selke is back, Buffy suggests that the float be centred on clowns, looks
like the Scooby Gang have a clone on their hands...
WRITING
Perhaps the most
interesting part of the Bad Blood saga as everything finally hits the fan.
The clone is created, the clone fights Buffy, Buffy dies, the clone
takes Buffy's place and Angel finally figures out who the new Head Vampire
is. Sadly though, we don't really care. Everyone knows Buffy isn't dead, and
its obvious the clone has taken Buffy's place, the only thing that hasn't
happened is that Buffy meets Selke, and judging from the previews it looks
like when they do there'll be a lot of dust.
ART
As always Richards does a
great job distinguishing all the characters from one another. That still
means Cordelia and Oz look nothing like Charisma Carpenter and Seth Green,
but it's an improvement on the previous Buffy artists
OVERALL
One of the better parts of
the Bad Blood Saga, yet since most of the other parts were rubbish that
doesn't make it good. It seems to me this storyline would have been better
carried out as a Graphic Novel or as a 3 - 4 issue mini series, as the
people at Dark Horse are really dragging this out as much as they can.
NEXT
ISSUE
Even more Bad Blood, and
the most disgusting cover yet!
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BAD
BLOOD PART 7
Writer: ANDI WATSON
Pencils: CLIFF RICHARDS
Inks: JOE PIMENTEL
Letterer: AMADOR CISNEROS
Colours: GUY MAJOR
Cover: JEFF MATSUDA
Reviewer: RICHARD MORGAN
Writing rating: 3/5
Art rating: 3/5
OVERALL RATING: 6/10
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