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Buffy Season 12 library edition

Publication date: September 16, 2020

Collects issues #01–04 (complete) and Giles: Girl Blue.

Cover: Steve Morris

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Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning

Publication date: December 12, 2018

Complete collection, issues #01–04.

Cover: Stephanie Hans

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Buffy 12 #01 updated covers

One Year Later

Publication on June 20, 2018.

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Buffy 12 #01: One Year Later

Publication date: June 20, 2018

It’s one year later, and the lives of Buffy and the Scoobies haven’t been too eventful for a while-at least as far as fighting demons and the forces of darkness are concerned. But that’s all about to change when Dawn and Xander’s housewarming party is interrupted by some familiar faces bringing news of familiar foes from the future. Can you say Harth… and Fray?

Story: Christos Gage, Joss Whedon; script: Christos Gage; illustration: Georges Jeanty; inks: Karl Story; colors: Dan Jackson; cover: Stephanie Hans; variant cover: Georges Jeanty, Karl Story, Dan Jackson; ultra variant cover: Karl Moline.

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Buffy 12 #01: One Year Later [preview]

Story: Christos Gage, Joss Whedon; script: Christos Gage; illustration: Georges Jeanty; inks: Karl Story; colors: Dan Jackson

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Buffy 12 #01: One Year Later [preview]

Story: Christos Gage, Joss Whedon; script: Christos Gage; illustration: Georges Jeanty; inks: Karl Story; colors: Dan Jackson

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[…] In the age of decompression, the creators’s eagerness to accelerate “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 12: The Reckoning” #1 from enigmatic prelude to near-instantaneous pay-off in a single issue is curious. After we’re shown a glimpse of this “Last Slayer’s Last Stand” in the opening panels, we’re only a few page turns from witnessing the event itself. And it’s a dud, with a completely unsatisfying and disappointing return for one of the show’s best villains. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 12: The Reckoning” #1 crams too much into one issue, and its weak foundations can’t hold it. Gage’s pacy script races through his plot, feeling not only messy and unplanned, but completely contrary to the whole point serialized storytelling; but I suppose that makes the writing an ideal bedfellow for Jeanty and Story’s art, which is similarly all over the map. Joss Whedon (and Gage, and Jeanty, and Story) may have wanted to go full Claremont, but Claremont’s “X-Men” was everything this book is not. It was often deliberately paced, over-the-top and a mite silly — we’re blessed that Gage keeps the flowery caption boxes to a minimum here — but the sense of consistent momentum, satisfying completion of mini-arcs within larger stories, and a confidence in the team steering the ship are almost entirely missing here.

Tom Baker review at Multiversity Comics, on “Buffy Season 12″ #01.

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