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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 5: Predators And Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse)) |  | Authors: Jane Espenson, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jim Krueger, Doug Petrie
Artists: Georges Jeanty, Cliff Richards, Andy Owens
Publisher: Dark Horse
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 8356
Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1595823425
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781595823427
ASIN: 1595823425
Publication Date: September 9, 2009
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Product Description
Buffy's world goes awry when former-classmate-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall lands her own reality TV show, bolstering bloodsucking fiends in the mainstream. Humans line up to have their blood consumed, and Slayers, through a series of missteps, misfortunes, and anti-Slayer propaganda driven by the mysterious Twilight, are forced into hiding.
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Weakest volume of season 8 so far March 14, 2010
Mr. N. Shaikh
None of the issues collected here are awful but the stories are a bit weak. Feel like they're stringing us along while we wait for the big reveal - just who IS the Big Bad of season 8 aka Twilight? At least we finally get the end of Dawn's shapechanging plotline. Amusing as it was to see her rampaging in tokyo against a giant robot, enough is enough. The Andrew plotline was ridiculous. True, the scoobies have kept people like Anya and Spike who didn;t exactly start off on the right foot but Andrew isn't even remotely useful, why keep him on? At least we get a lookin on the giles and Faith teamup. The Harmony on MTV idea is amusing.
Average February 24, 2010
Minto1981 (Durham, England)
Not as good as the previous 4 Volumes however this is just a collection of 1 shots, keeps the series 8 arc going though.
A Fun, Light Reading Volume January 7, 2010
Darkstorm (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Volume 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 contains 'Harmonic Divergence', 'Swell', 'Predators and Prey', 'Safe' and 'Living Doll'.
'Harmonic Divergence' mainly focus' on Harmony's reality show on MTV about vampires and the end sets up a theme they'll run for the next few volumes. I thought the idea of Harmoney being on MTV was great! It makes perfect sense considering her air-headedness and such. The story does go by quite quickly (due to the lightness of the script and all) but the ending is quite powerful and puts the whole 'slayers organisation' on it's head.
'Swell' takes place not long after and follows 2 slayers - Satsu and Kennedy as they have to deal with killer vampires that happen to be stuffed toys. The story can easily be skipped and it's not the strongest plot in this series but it's nice to have the side characters get some time in the limelight.
'Predators and Prey' follows Buffy and Andrew as they chase a rouge slayer who's been missing for several months. This story really puts Andrew in the spotlight and shows how much his friendship with Buffy has grown since his last TV episode. Plus their 'geek chat' made me laugh. I wished we had an issue dedicated to Simone's, the rouge slayer, turn to evil as it seemed interesting, but nevermind!
'Safe' takes a look at the sader side of the Slayer powers as Faith and Giles go to a Sanctuary where girls who have become slayers do not want to be chosen. I'd like to see more Faith and Giles stories as the 2 characters seem to be clicking, but this story didn't really do much. Yes we get a peak at the last members of the council but nothing else relates to the main story.
And finally, 'Living Doll' concludes Dawn's thricewise curse as she transforms into a doll and gets kidnapped by a a dollmaker! I thought the reconcile between Dawn and her thricewise boyfriend was a little too quick and false but the overall story was ok and vital to read if you plan to continue the series.
Overall this isn't the strongest volume, plot wise, but it's a quick, light read that ties up some loose ends before we jump into the plot-heavy volume, Retreat.
Slightly disappointing November 7, 2009
Mrs. Sarah Daniels (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The artwork in this series is of variable quality. Not a problem you think until they reveal a character who has turned up with a picture alone and I can't recognise who it is meant to be!
The weakest volume yet. September 27, 2009
genejoke (uk)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The writing is still good the art is still solid but this volume is all very bitty, there is an underlying theme running but it is essentially a collection of seperate stories. While this can be a good thing, here it detracts from the whole because the overall standard is average. the best part is the story about giles and faith, the stuff with harmony is annoying but the idea of it's effect is well done, so it is worth reading but it isn't essential.
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