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The
Remaining Sunlight collects together the first three Buffy comic
books plus a story from the DHP Annual 1998.
First up, Wu-Tang
Fang sees Xander secretly taking up kung fu and having to be rescued
from becoming the next victim of a mysterious hat-wearing vampire.
For a
single-parter, the story itself is pretty good, but it's badly let down on
the art front. Buffy is fine (despite wearing outfits that don't seem
at all conducive to slaying vamps) but the rest of the gang are pretty
awful, and it's a good job that Cordy and Willow don't appear together since
chances are it would be hard to tell them apart.
The story
improves slightly, and the artwork rather more (although Oz is pretty
terrible), in Halloween, where the gang are charged with escorting a
group of trick or treating kids. No problem at all, you'd think, until
Willow gets abducted by a group of vampires (all named after ice hockey
trophies) who are stocking their larder up.
Selke, one
of the vamps we saw in Halloween, returns in Cold Turkey (and
she'll be back later on to bore us in the Bad Blood saga), which is
probably the best of the three full-length stories here.
Finally, MacGuffins
sees a cute looking Buffy dealing with a couple of pesky houseguests.
Overall, The
Remaining Sunlight is pretty average - a couple of the stories are quite
good, but most of the art sucks bigtime and, with the UK Buffy
magazine collecting together the Dark Horse strips, this one is really only
for completists and comic fans (who will quite possibly have MacGuffins
anyway).
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Writer: ANDI WATSON
Penciller: JOE BENNETT
Inker: RICK KETCHAM
Letterer: JANICE CHANG
MacGuffins
Writer: J.L. VAN METER
Penciller: LUKE ROSS
Colourist: GUY MAJOR
Letterer: STEVE DUTRO
DARK HORSE COMICS
£8.99/$9.95
OVERALL RATING:
6/10
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