The Slayer of Steel

[arbre_rieur]

A little under four pages from Buffy #32...







Where Faith, Andrew, and Giles find themselves:



title: buffy the vampire slayer, publisher: dark horse

Comments

[icon_uk]

I've not been following this, but I have to offer up props to a villain who will actually build a piece of Walt Simonson tech to further their aims.

[3_jane]

Nice Tick shoutout there, but now I miss Die Fledermaus and Sewer Urchin. :(

[thandrak]

Kirk Chair!

[scottyquick]

READ THIS COMMENT! READ IT BEFORE CONTINUING.

If you haven't been spoiled on who Twilight is, do NOT read adoko_rokku's comment below.

[xammax]

So I am not going to spoil but will allude. Given who Twilight has been revealed to be, will Faith switch sides?

[thokstar]

I'm actually expecting Twilight to be Jonathan. The only real flaw with that theory is that Jonathan is dead, and given that they've managed to get around "Warren is dead" to include him in the series, I'm not concerned about that.

[arbre_rieur]

I'm removing your entry in case there's someone out there lucky enough not to have stumbled onto that rather ubiquitous of spoilers.

[akodo_rokku]

Gah! Sorry.

[arbre_rieur]

Happens to the best of us.

[ninjapeps]

I'd like to know who Twilight is. you can put the answer in black text on black background with <div style="color: #000; background: #000">text here</div>.

[schmevil]

Angel. No, it doesn't make any sense.

[ninjapeps]

what. no chance that it's really just an illusion or something?

[schmevil]

Far as I know it's legit but I'm hoping against hope.

[sir_mikael]

Yay, thanx for teaching me that spoiler-code. It will come in handy for sure!

[houbanaut]

After a dismal run lately, I thought this new arc started out markedly better. But the idea that Buffy (and particularly Willow) are ever going to team up with Amy and Warren? No chance IN HELL!

[scottyquick]

After seeing the body-switch episodes, I now love Faith. So this has me interested.

[valtyr]

Flicking through tabs, I glanced at this and though "What the hell happened to Nick Fury?"

[ninjapeps]

in a much earlier issue, Xander said he likes to think of himself as Nick Fury during the Howling Commando era.

[valtyr]

But Nick Fury didn't get the eyepatch until after the war.

[schmevil]

Only a comics geek could nitpick so thoroughly. :D

[bluefall]

His (now fridged) girlfriend mentioned that to him and basically earned herself that status by it, in fact.

[anoolka]

Everytime I get a glimpse of this comic I cant help but get fixated on this weird art and trying to figure out what's wrong with it. I'm fairly sure it's the size of the heads- makes them look like kids in some of those panels...

[arbre_rieur]

While I see that too, I don't really mind it much and I think the art is overall quite good.

[darkblade]

About the title. No shit! Of course the person with magically granted superhuman combat powers with which to fight demons has superpowers.

[shadowpsykie]

LOL they mean actual super(comic book) powers. she can fly, faster than a speeding bullet, leaps very high, actually lifted a locomotive.

favorite line

Dawn: "She's faster than a speeding bullet... Oh my god, I just got what they were doing."

ugh! my computer is not workign so i can't get this issue yet :(

[darkblade]

How do her normal Slayer powers not constitute superpowers?

I hate the Buffy fandom that denies that they are superheroes. They have powers and/or skills beyond those of normal people and use those gifts to fight evil. That makes them superheroes with superpowers.

[shadowpsykie]

LOL calm down.

I never denied that they already had superpowers, but these powers are even beyond the powers ANY of them, (save maybe Willow) have ever had. BUffy said herself that this was more power than she has ever had, or is accustomed to. they have always been conscidered superheroes to me. but now her powers (temporairly) are more almost straight outta the comics... (little sad she didnt have the vision powers... oooh maybe cold breath!:)

[darkblade]

Sorry overreacted there. I had a bad encounter with someone about that issue on another site yesterday.

[schmevil]

I'm a couple of trades behind. Should I even bother to catch up?

[hero_of_lallor]

Penetra vision- Nice Ultra Boy shout out.