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Time of Your Life (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 4) |  | Authors: Joss Whedon, Jeff Loeb
Creators: Karl Moline, Eric Wight, Andy Owens
Publisher: Dark Horse
Category: Book
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 8130
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 136
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 1595823107
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781595823106
ASIN: 1595823107
Publication Date: December 2, 2009
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Willow and Buffy head to New York City to unlock the secrets of Buffy's mysterious scythe, when something goes terribly awry. Buffy is propelled into a dystopian future where there's only one Slayer - Fray, the title character of Joss Whedon's 2001 series, the first comic he ever wrote. Their uneasy alliance falls apart, leading to the death of a major character from the TV series, while back in the twenty-first century, the Scotland base falls prey to a mystical bomb courtesy of the Biggest Bad - Twilight!
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 Buffy for the win February 2, 2010
S. Whitmer (Seattle, Wa USA)
Buffy season 8 is great for the person who wants to see how joss whedons idea of the buffy-verse continues on with no networks, and with limitless creativity. Highly recommend it.
 Definitely a favorite! November 3, 2009
Michele Lee (Louisville, KY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Despite the last three volumes having different writers they've all held deliciously true to the Buffy-verse while not letting the storyline becoming dull or repetitive. With this addition the story moves the focus back to Buffy and to the large story arc, Buffy vs the mysterious Twilight. Except it moves at this plot from a side arc rather than straight forward.
It cannot be coincidence that a temporal anomaly sucks Buffy into the future right when Twilight has been trying to convince her of the futility of her spell to make all the Potentials into genuine Slayers. Whoever Twilight is, they are fighting to kill Buffy, to destroy the spell so the balance between good and evil will be restored.
So whether the anomaly and Buffy being present is due to Twilight's interference or not, Buffy landing in a future words where a Slayer is at war with her twin, who has been turned into a vampire, seems only to reinforce Twilight's attacks on Buffy's resolve.
But the main player in this tale doesn't appear to be either the strange, lonely Slayer, her vampire twin with the Slayer's memory, or Twilight. Instead the direct story behind Buffy's time trip is sadder and closer to home than Buffy could guess.
While ultimately a sad volume, so much is left undone, unexplained, unseen or heard that it takes from the depth of the final scene. Readers can only hope that the Buffy-verse continues its habit of baiting, teasing and most of all, delivering.
 Good not great... October 13, 2009
Ross Rankin (Atlanta, GA United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm a huge BtVS fan and own the whole TV series on DVD. I've really like most of the Season 8 comics to date. Volume 4, if you are collecting the graphic novel format versus the individual issues, is the weakest of collection so far. While I did enjoy seeing the Fray characters again, it felt like more of a stunt that a real plot point. The Willow portion also felt unsatisfying as well, sorry its hard to explain while trying to be vague to avoid major spoilers.
The side plot of Dawn, was, in reality, kind of stupid. I appreciate that they wanted to add some more fantastical elements that cover ground they could do in a TV show with a moderate budget, but this was beyond the spirit of the series. The "there are consequences to relationships" is very Joss, but the results here feel like fodder for a few quips and jokes rather than a solid allegory.
So while I'll tune into for another volume, my passion for this version of BtVS is waning and will be gone without a solid set of issues and some new meaty hooks to build my desire and suspense for a volume 6.
 I'm really about to give up on this series September 16, 2009
Christopher E. Arnold (florida)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just finished reading this and the story has not advanced one bit after 5 books now.
The whole cross time caper had 0 point with everything resetting back to the way it started at the end of the story. Telling who is who in this book take reading the words because the art is so bad I can't figure out most of the caracters (except for the one male). I also agree with several of the other reivews that the big reveal in this book is totally lost with the bad art. I have no clue who that is even after showing their face....
The 5th book was cute and at least I could tell the characters apart it also lacked any real reason.
Hopefully Vol 5 gets back on track and they find a new artist for this series quick!
perfecto vol.4 September 12, 2009
David Muñoz (Sitges, BCN Spain)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
much better than vol.3, though sometimes it's not easy to understand where the story is heading to... but the story between Buffy and Fray is a very interesting twist in the script, besides the fact that we see Dark "veiny" Willow back - I love her. Although, It's disappointing that she really doesn't do anything important in this story, but it's always cool to see her appearing from time to time. Highly recommended to those that were a bit disappointed by the story with Dracula - I was a bit.
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