Buffy The Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 5

This might be the best of the Omnibus series for Buffy. It starts after the end of Season 3.I never thought there was enough of Oz in the series, and this helps flesh out his story some. I really liked that.There are also a couple of truly outstanding stories written by writers from the Buffy TV series. And a couple more stories that are almost as good.Even the art is better than most of the other Omnibus. With the exception of a panel or two here or there the characters all look really great and pretty close to their TV personalities.Overall a really outstanding Omnibus, but still look for it used from a very reputable dealer. Sometimes it's just listed as too much for New. Try and go for Like New or Very Good, the volume is so large that anything less might have loose pages.

This volume has one really great story from series writer Jane Espenson (Haunted). I would personally include it into Buffy canon. Also there is great story from Chris Boal (The Heart of a Slayer) which is writer recommended by Joss himself. Other stories are ok, sometimes funny, sometimes boring. But you definitely should buy this volume because of the great ones.In Amazon 5 star rating system I would rate individual stories like this:5/5 Haunted2/5 Take Back the Night2/5 Killing Time3/5 The Blood of Carthage4/5 The Heart of a Slayer2/5 Cemetery of Lost love3/5 Oz

It definitely feels more like the Buffy world and characters. Loved the time traveling slayer one and the oz story.com

It arrived very quickly, and in great condition. I love it, thank you.

I'm writing this on behalf of my fiancee as he's the buffy fan he loves it ...it got to him way early so he got an early christmas present which he loves, these are good quality books and it was shipped promptly I have no complaints..

Awesome comic and came in EUC

Few pages were loose but otherwise not bad

As I have with my review of the first four volumes, I'll start this review off with a short explanation of the omnibus series."Unless you're a completist with oodles and oodles of cash, this is the way to go if you want to collect the older Buffy comics. Before this, they have been collected (for the most part) into smaller trade paperbacks, each of which cost almost as much as this volume. Now, before I get into my review, let me explain the omnibus series, as I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding.when talking about it on message boards: This is not the only omnibus. There are to be seven of them all together, collection Dark Horse's original run of the Buffy comics."Now, on with the review. I don't blame those who have given up on the omnibus series because, admittedly, the last two have been weak.  Volume 3  and  Volume 4  were dominated by the weak, nearly unreadable writing of Andi Watson, and the art wasn't much better. But those who decided to stick it out and give this series one last chance won't be surprised, because Watson is gone baby gone, and this is probably the best volume of the series.It starts with  HAUNTED , a tale by Jane Espenson that bridges the third and fourth seasons of the show. It's a great time with a lot of story opportunities, and Espenson handled it wonderfully. This is definitely the crown jewel of this collection (all of which is set during Season Four), and will be a great surprise to those who were worried this book would start off with the same low quality as the last two. Next up is TAKE BACK THE NIGHT, a mediocre short story that doesn't impress much at all. Another one shot, this one called KILLING TIME, follows. It's written by another writer from the show, Doug Petrie, who does a fair job, though not nearly as good as Espenson.The five issue arc  BLOOD OF CARTHAGE , written by Buffy novelist Christopher Golden comes after that. It's an extreme step up from the two one-shots, and is nearly as good as HAUNTED. I couldn't believe how well Golden, who I am usually wary of, handled the characters. He did try to stuff a bit too much in, especially with the Lucy Hanover stuff, but this was a really nice surprise. The next two stories, which originally formed the  BUFFY: AUTUMNAL  volume are short and snappy, and for the most part good. The first, HEART OF A SLAYER, also suffers from being too obvious with its supposed twist, but the second story, CEMETERY OF LOST LOVE, is good enough to make up for it.The volume closes with another tale from Christopher Golden, the three part  OZ  miniseries, which details Oz's journey between "Wild at Heart" and "New Moon Rising." I might have idealized Golden's writing in my head after being so wonderfully surprised by BLOOD OF CARTHAGE, because this story did let me down a bit. What I think happened was that Golden got too excited about what was going on in the setting he threw Oz into and the other characters and spent too much time focusing on plot and too little on Oz's character.  Buffy The Vampire Slayer  is often considered one of the greatest shows of all time because of it's character driven nature, and I think Golden might have stumbled on that a bit in OZ.Overall, this was the most consistently good read. Highlights are definitely Haunted, Blood of Carthage, and Cemetery of Love, but pretty much every story here is a few steps about the stuff we got in the last few volumes.8/10

a gift

For each story, the writers are usually different. Some are incorporated in the show, some are not

My first Buffy graphic novel, and I wasn't disappointed! Some interesting stories to add to the world of BtVS. Haunted was especially fun

A pesar de Oz, meh!, es un recopilatorio genial.Le he regalado a mi esposa este volumen y quedó maravillada.La edición está muy bien cuidada, es pequeño pero bastante interesante al ojo.Si eres fan: sé que te va a encantar.

Fun to read