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PLOT Yes, I never thought I'd stay awake either, but here we are with the 9th (!!!) and final (!!!) part of the BAD BLOOD saga. If you've managed to keep up (and if not for plot summaries start back with the first part, #9) then you'll know that Selke, the doctor and the Buffy clones have Buffy at their mercy, but this issue things take a turn around. Buffy and the Evil Clone do battle, and it looks like the evil one is winning, until one of the failed clones who was looking after Buffy decides that it's better to save the original Buffy's life than leaving the Evil Slayer to take her place, so she pushes her into the sewer water and they both seem to die. Meanwhile the Scooby Gang are waiting for Buffy to arrive so they can get their float started, when a group of vampires show up and begin to terrorize everyone, not only that but they're being lead by Selke who has drunk too much of the Bad Blood (pun not intended) and so now looks like a She-Hulk. However, and as if you couldn't guess, Buffy show's up and kills Selke, which also gets rid of the other vampires as they were not formed in the usual vampire way. And so the end of another storyline, that is if it wasn't for Spike & Dru who now have the doctor who helped create the Slayer clones in their custody... WRITING If you like fight scenes then you'll like this as Buffy battles the clone, then Selke and the Scooby Gang battle the local vampires. Watson wraps up the story, but leaves to many open endings; Are the clones really dead? What are Spike & Dru doing with the doctor? Is the Bad Blood still around? The only thing we know for sure is Selke is finally dead, but other than that everything else is left up in the air, and I don't want a BAD BLOOD II thanks. ART Richards work really shines this issue as he finally gets to show us what he can do due to the many fight scenes. His backgrounds too are starting to become far more fleshed out, though they could still do with more detail. However the main problem with Richards art is the re-design of Selke, who looks bulky and almost laughable as the oversized super-vamp, much as last issue's super clone did, when it comes to humans and human looking demons Richards does good, but as of yet he hasn't managed to be able to draw "real" demons. OVERALL If you've managed to stick with the BUFFY issues then you'll have to read this just to finally get to know how it all ends. Not exactly the best ending ever, but Selke finally dies and there are some of the best drawn fight scenes yet in the BUFFY comic. And it'll be nice to see some stories by other writers other than Watson, as while most of his stories were good he never really had a break out story. NEXT ISSUE No more BAD BLOOD!!!! Next month sees the story of what happened between BUFFY s3-s4, brought to you by a bunch of fill in artists and Doug Petrie, writer of the show! Should be good then. BACK TO THE TOP |
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