S11 -- Spike and Buffy are living together, Xander/Dawn have broken up and are dating, Willow is still finding herself -- and whoopsie, the government decides to create internment/detainment camps (a la the X-men) for demons and supernatural beings, in order for some big bad covert government operative to siphon off all of their power. The supernaturals siphon off all their power and the big bad gets it. Anyhow, the gang figures it out and fights back, shifting things back to the status quo. (They stole the plot from The X-Men, and The X-men did it better.)
S12 -- one year later, Buffy and Spike have broken up off page (we aren't told why, just boredom, I guess?), Xander and Dawn are married, living in a house and have a kid (yes, seriously - no explanation), Willow has found a new purpose, and Angel is with Illyria (I kid you not). Also Harmony is the Queen of Vampires (yep - and we get an explanation for that, a lengthy one, because the writers think it's hilarious). Oh and Harmony is the only one who gets to make it to the Frayverse intact and powerful. (sigh). I got this all from synopsis. (I do not read or buy the dang things, unless I know I'll like them. I learned my lesson from the S8 comics. And S12 looks like a return to the crap-a-loosa that was S8.)
S10 is actually really good and delves deeply into the characters and their relationships. Also the art isn't bad. Not consistent, but not bad. The last half of S9 is also pretty good. And parts of S11 are good, a lot of it is rather cliche and bogged down by a plot that they've sort of done before.
Plotting they suck at. (They plot worse than daytime soaps and superhero comics, and that's saying something.) When they focus on the individual lives of the characters and their internal demons and issues - the comics are great, when they get into these big-picture thematic plot arcs, the characters get lost and weighted down by the plot and the plot has holes a plenty. In short they can't plot worth shit.
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Date: 2018-07-20 11:59 pm (UTC)S12 -- one year later, Buffy and Spike have broken up off page (we aren't told why, just boredom, I guess?), Xander and Dawn are married, living in a house and have a kid (yes, seriously - no explanation), Willow has found a new purpose, and Angel is with Illyria (I kid you not). Also Harmony is the Queen of Vampires (yep - and we get an explanation for that, a lengthy one, because the writers think it's hilarious). Oh and Harmony is the only one who gets to make it to the Frayverse intact and powerful. (sigh). I got this all from synopsis. (I do not read or buy the dang things, unless I know I'll like them. I learned my lesson from the S8 comics. And S12 looks like a return to the crap-a-loosa that was S8.)
S10 is actually really good and delves deeply into the characters and their relationships. Also the art isn't bad. Not consistent, but not bad. The last half of S9 is also pretty good. And parts of S11 are good, a lot of it is rather cliche and bogged down by a plot that they've sort of done before.
Plotting they suck at. (They plot worse than daytime soaps and superhero comics, and that's saying something.) When they focus on the individual lives of the characters and their internal demons and issues - the comics are great, when they get into these big-picture thematic plot arcs, the characters get lost and weighted down by the plot and the plot has holes a plenty. In short they can't plot worth shit.