djotaku's Buffy the Vampire Slayer #5 - Volume Five: Predators and Prey review

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    So it's a pattern now

    Looks like every other book is the funny comic relief one.  We'll see if this continues.  Of course, the fact that Harmony has the world loving vampires via reality TV is tragic at the same time as being hilarious.  It's funny, after having complained for the past few reviews that I'm having a hard time recognizing characters that were in the live show but don't quite look that recognizable in comic book form, I was able to tell that the guy Harmony finds outside the club was Andy Dick before he was identified.  
     
    I enjoyed this book's slayer one-off.  Just like the one of the girl who was Buffy's double underground, it was touching.  Great job on the writing there and making us care about characters that just appear for one issue.  Also, great job coming up with a reason for her not wanting to join Buffy - having just gotten out of a female gang.
     
    The Hello Kitty Vampire is hilarious.  It's also got a great one-shot mini-issue near the end of the book.  That's all I'm going to say about that.
     
    Finally we get back to Giles and Faith.  Their story was great.  Faith is growing.  And they're doing great work on their own.
     
    And Dawn finally gets a resolution to her problem with the thricewise.  That little story was both fun and creepy.  I feel like she had a bit of awkward dialog with the guy she cheated on, but w/e.  I'm not going to criticize a book on one weird-sounding line.

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