Let me just say, I'm SO tired! What kind of uni has an exam at 8:30 in the morning not to mention in a tent?! So stylish UNSW. Aside from finishing another uni semester and being half way through my final year, I have finished my last finance exam FOREVER and so assuming I passed I have unofficially completed my finance major! Yay! One more semester to go!
If you got the hint I've been quite buried by textbooks prepping for finals so my apologies for the lateness of this post. But without further adieu...
Buffy Season 9 issue #10
So Cover One. Well... It's different. Personally not to my taste but it's something new I give you that. I do however, like the colours. The anchoring black at the top to a melon green for the base with a flow of orange and yogurt peach in a rippling flurry of words and thoughts. A set of eyes are sketched into the background and we see that we are focusing on the females forehead. Her mind. And like some sci-fi telekinesis mojo the inner voice in her mind takes form. We see Buffy. Her hair rippling in a breeze. Her complexion all glowy. Her expression filled with uncertainty. And so the concentric circles of her inner insecurities ripple from her reverie. The warped text create a beautiful effect.
Cover Two. Talk about misleading. I really don't get the connection here. Is it some sort of metaphor? Because I don't get it. It's a full moon and it's HUGE in the night sky. So is the scene. It's a packed house. We see in the background every good character that has made an appearance since issue one. That demon fella, that agent guy... sorry I'm bad with names... Andrew, Tumble, Dawn, Xander and Anaheed... and two other characters whose faces are blocked from view but I assume one is Willow? and the other's a man judging by the trousers but, can't figure. I'm getting too into detail here. All the characters are witnesses and mourn Buffy's death... supposedly. We see Spike crying with the halo of the gigantic moon behind his head as he stands holding in his arms the limp body of the slayer. Of course if you've read the issue you know this is not a scene in the story and she is not dead. Instead of trying to infer the meaning of the illustration I'll move on to the very cute outfit the slayer has on. Boy is that skirt gorgeous! I love the colour and the patterns. It's by far the best thing in the illustration. Ha! You really focus on the slayer when you look at the cover, the hue, the colour, the detail allows the eye to cut out the slayers limp figure while everything else falls away to be background, including Spike.
How did I like this issue? Well to me it wasn't as great as the previous issues. Not really as great a wrap to the story arc. I'm sort of confused with how the turn of events changed tides so quickly.
The three sunset pages on the rooftops were illustrated beautifully. Loving the colours! Although the depiction was terrific but this subplot with the "Spuffy" relationship feels too much like a broken record, this from a person who did totally 'ship' the two. Ah, first time I used that term. We witness Spikey fly off with his bug crew to what we know is a mini comic, set course later this year. This feel like deja vu to you? Well it should. Someone has hit the reply button on these two. He goes away because of her. He comes back because of her. I hope this is not going to be a constant thing.
And I stop here. Happy mid-year break!
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