Blu-Ray Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic

 

This gives you an idea of where the storyline went after the live-action show ended. As most die-hard Buffy fans likely know, the creative team behind Buffy continued the story in a series of comic books. This tells the first part of the story in the comics (there are over 40 comic issues and this covers the first 19 issues), basically set sometime down the line from the events ending season seven. I would say the story is okay, but nowhere near as good as any of the seasons were in the live-action show and the fact that the characters were not voiced by the original cast members made it feel a bit lackluster. The animation was okay at best, but not even as good as what the best video games at the time this came out boasted.

The A/V quality of the blu-ray is good, but not spectacular. There are a handful of extras including a preview of the series played at Comic-Con, a test pilot, which is basically a very rough version of the first issue/episode, a trivia experience that pops up trivia questions as the episodes play, and a gallery of the comic book covers. Good for what is there, but nothing to write home about.

Overall, only die-hard fans of Buffy are only going to consider getting this, and even then not everyone who was a fan of the show will likely be interested in this. If you really liked the comic series, from what I can tell this tracks the issues pretty well, but it is not even close to complete, and given how much time has passed, there is not likely to be a DVD or Blu-Ray release with the rest of the story.