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First review from Buttonhole's new mystery asassasin
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Wed, 15 June 2005
by: Australian Ninja
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Buffy Summers is dead and gone. The demons on earth are gone. The watchers council has devolved into fanatical lunatics after waiting for more than 200 years for the demons to return.
Fray - a street kid and professional thief - is the new slayer. She has the slayer strength but not the watcher, the memories, historical slayer dreams or sense of purpose typical of a slayer. She's tough, lives in a slum and regularly hands out a beat-down to anyone that gets in her way.
Viciously protective of the few she calls friends she lives a hard life. A powerful 9-foot tall red demon with goat horns turns up in her home to inform her she is the next slayer: the chosen one.
The story of Fray is self-contained, and can be read alone. While also being an extension of the Buffy-verse. Joss Whedon himself, creator of Buffy,Fray, Angel and Firefly, wrote it. The trade paperback features the 7-issue mini-series, an intro by Joss and some gorgeous pencil sketches in the back.
Fray is not a throw away 'what if' type of story. It's a continuation and expansion of Joss Whedon's stories established in the Buffy and Angel television show. While at the same time being it's own entity.
Karl Moline pencils a sweet looking book. The look of the comic is quite stunning. Fray being a street kid, has a real punk look to her. Her demon mentor towers over her almost like a second shadow. The background environments are dark, dirty.
The poor live at ground level, mostly ignored. The affluent live in tall shiny metallic office type skyscrapers. The police conveniently steer clear of the 'lowers' population.
In alleyways, what appear to be junkies are actually vampires. Waiting. Growing in numbers. Biding their time. Thought of as freaks and outcasts - no one actually knows what a vampire is - let alone suspects the rapidly approaching threat they pose to the lowers population.
Fray is no timid high school cheerleader. Before becoming the slayer she was already a seasoned ass-kicker. She eagerly hunts down her first vamps like a tiger stalks and kills a zebra. By the end of the story she faces plenty of vamps and her first big bad. Several shocking surprises are contained in the story and I wont ruin them here. Fray is a compelling read from cover to cover, and I read it non-stop the first time and then again 2 days later.
by: Australian Ninja
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