PLANET SF HOME | BUFFY HOME | BUFFY COMICS | BUFFY FEATURES/FICTION | BUFFY NOVELS

PLOT

Catherine and Angel continue to plan how to deal with the return of the Hollower, remembering the previous encounters with it and how they defeated it to help them in their struggles. Meanwhile Buffy and Giles get mixed up with the return of the Hollower, and plan on tracking it down themselves, to the suprise of Angel who wants Buffy to have nothing to do with it. But when Buffy learns of the Hollower's powers, she thinks she knows why Angel wants to go after it without her help, if it were to try to suck the demon out of him, perhaps it would just leave his soul behind, allowing him to walk free amongst the rest of mankind!

ART

Ugh! Gomez finally comes back to earth, and starts drawing Giles badly again, as well as all the other characters, apart from Angel, although in the flashback sequences he is only barely recognisable. Also another thing that spoils the issue is the return of Guy Major's green vampires. Someone grab all his green crayons and replace them with grey now!

STORY

Most of the action takes place in flashback this issue, which slows the pace down since we know the Hollower was defeated the first time around. Also for a mini-series named ANGEL Buffy and Giles seem to be featuring an awful lot.

OVERALL

It was a hard act to follow after issue one, and both Gomez and Golden failed to keep up the standard they set. Only one issue left and the series has already proved no match for THE ORIGIN, let's hope that Gomez and Golden can deliver a good final issue though, then all these little errors can be forgotten. BACK TO THE TOP

ART RATING: 4/10

STORY RATING: 6/10

OVERALL RATING: 6/10


NEXT RELEASE:
THE HOLLOWER, PART 3

PREVIOUS RELEASE:
THE HOLLOWER, PART 1