Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Apart (of Me) Part 2

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Apart (of Me) Part 2
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Andrew Chambliss & Scott Allie
Art by Cliff Richards

Near as I can figure, a bit of time in the future. Buffy had retired from the vampire slaying business and was trying to live a normal life. Yet she was kidnapped in an issue before, but one of her friends built a robot likeness of her, with some of her personality. That got activated, with Spike and Andrew are searching for the real Buffy. Now, Xander, Dawn and Detective Robert Dowling are also looking for Buffy but are in a different area and dealing with zompires. They’re finding dead and turning bodies all over the place. Then the detective and Xander go off and are attacked. It reads just about as I’ve explained it.

The writing in this was a tad disjointed to say the least. Mostly because the writers know that the audience gets every issue and is up to date on everything. But for the casual reader, you’ll have a hard time following, also the reader is not told of time or location changes. That’s an issue fore me. Having said that, the art was very well done. It has clean pictures and scenes that move everything along and keep you going. The paneling is also very easy to follow.

As I said, I’m not an avid read of Buffy, not saying that it’s a bad title or anything, I just don’t read it regularly. Odds on, if I had even the first issue of this storyline, I would know more and would have liked it better. The ideas that were thrown out in this are beyond “out there” in my opinion. I would have to say that if you are a fan of the show only, don’t get this. If you’ve been following the comic and know what’s going on, you’ll like this and want to get the next issue, in my humble opinion. I give this 2.5 caps out of 5 because I think that’s how it’s meant to be written.