Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #9: No Future For You Part Four (Dark Horse Comics)
Apr 26th, 2009 by Best Deals
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #9: No Future For You Part Four (Dark Horse Comics)
Slayers battle to the death in the thrilling conclusion to Brian K. Vaughans four-issue run on Buffy Season Eight.
With Joss Whedon serving as Executive Producer and Georges Jeanty (The American Way) as series artist, Buffy Season Eight continues to entertain longtime Buffy fans and newcomers alike.
* Buffy Season Eight continues!
* Top-ten seller Buffy #1 went immediately back to press-three times-to satisfy demand . . . totaling over 150,000 copies!
Customer Reviews & Opinions
BKV Brings His “Faith Arc” to a Close
This issue had a lot riding on it. As it is the climax of “No Future For You,” it had to be more intense, more poignant, and overall better than the first three issues of this arc. It also had to live up to Issue #4, the issue that ended “The Long Way Home” arc. This issue, despite how good the other three were, is the last statement that this arc is going to make, so it had to be the most powerful. Does it deliver?Yeah, it does. Starting with a flashback to her days with the Mayor (who voice Vaughan nails), this issue makes a poignant parallel between his (the Mayor’s) relationship with Faith and Roden’s relationship with Gigi. What I like about this part of the issue is that Faith is shown to have recognized that the Mayor was wrong–and, yes, evil–but the relationship is never portrayed as anything but genuine. This sharply contrasts with Roden’s relationship with his evil slayer, but Faith still relates to Gigi despite her mentor’s true feelings about her. What it all comes down to here, though, is the unavoidable fight between the two rogue slayers. It’s an emotional and bloody battle that Vaughan handles carefully, giving the characters some great one-liners, a few teary moments, and some really cool combat scenes (especially when Roden comes into the picture).
While this plot comes to a startling finish, things are just starling to boil over back at Buffy’s place. Her anger at Giles (shown in the last issues) for not informing her about the mission comes to a head here, spawning surprising results. This issue seems to focus on both endings and new beginnings, opening the door for many, many stories in the future. And, like the slightly inferior Issue #4, this arc closes with a bang: The Big Bad is revealed. His short little exchange with a minion of his “Lieutenant Molter” changes everything we knew about this arc. His motives put a new, disturbing spin on the events of the Faith vs. Gigi fight, and it is shown that there is a traitor within Buffy’s ranks. Oh, and for everyone complaining that Joss is taking to long to give us answers to the mysteries in the first arc, one of the biggest questions gets answered in this issue: “Who is the person floating in Issue #1?”
Brian K. Vaughan did a wonderful job on both this issue and the entire arc. Introducing the theme of how slayers relate to their surrogate “watchers” (Faith to the Mayor, Gigi to Roden, Buffy to Giles) into this issue, he ends this issue with real emotional resonance. The ramificatons of “No Future For You” will change the Buffyverse forever, and I can’t wait to see what follows.
9/10