Type of bind: Comic
Label: Dark Horse Comics
Manufacturer: Dark Horse Comics
Printing Date: 2008
Publishing house: Dark Horse Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 563348
Studio: Dark Horse Comics
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"Anywhere But Here" is the most fully realized Buffy: Season Eight comic released by Dark Horse. It offers a solid, twenty-five page story that reads as if it were an entire arc. It's not perfect (the way they defeat the villain is a bit lame), but it's just so crammed with story and dialogue that it did more than I could have ever expected a one-shot to do. The structure of the story (what with Buffy and Willow's 'fantasy' sequences and, later, their visions of the future/past) is a bit experimental but, unlike the previous one-shot (The Chain) this actually worked. Well.
There were a lot of revelations (How did Dawn become a giant? Can we get a look at Kenny? How does Buffy have money for all these high-tech thingers? Where the blip is Kennedy?) as well as references to past events, all of them with new plot twists attached on the end. Also, a spin is finally put on the Willow/Kennedy relationship, giving it the spice it lacked during the televised run. With Dawn finally revealing how she was "embiggened" and Buffy reeling from Willow's revelation of why she doesn't bring Kennedy around, this series continues to heat up like a tea kettle that Giles has left on for too long.
Cliff Richards handles the pencils for this one-shot and he does alright here, but I don't like how he shades by simply drawing lines across the character's faces. Also, when he depicts a character with a shadow across their face, he simply draws a hard line down the center of their faces. It just doesn't look real. That being said, he is good enough that his art doesn't take away from the enjoyment.
I also have to mention--and I know you've heard this before, but it's a must I mention this--how nice it is to see a fan of this show, Robin Balzer, immortalized in the pages of this comic. Robin and Jerrod, congratulations on this. Robin was chosen well (in real life, as well as the character!) and I think it's awesome of Dark Horse and Joss to reach out to the fans like this. It warms a guy's heart, no?
9/10
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