No Future For You - Buffy S8 Faith Arc Comic Review

Over the weekend I picked up and read the final chapter in the Brian K. Vaughn Faith miniseries entitled No Future for You in Joss Whedon's fascinating if somewhat flawed comic book/graphic novel rendering of Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8. The most interesting thing about this series may be the fact that it is amongst the few times that the original creator of a television series got fed up with television long enough to choose to continue the series in a medium outside of television or film, changing the series just enough to fit the challenges of that medium. (Has anyone else done this that you know of? Not sure Heroes counts since it is more or less a graphic novel come to life on the screen and tailor made for the comic medium.) While comics and tv series do have some things in common, they are at heart extreemly different. In some ways not even comparable. The thing about comics is you either like the medium or you don't. It's probably safe to say that the majority of Buffy fans aren't into comic books - doesn't matter, since comics don't require as large an audience as television does to be profitable. So even though, not all the fans of the tv series are reading the comics, enough are to make this series the biggest seller in Dark Horse (the series producer) if not comic history.

While No Future For You is far from perfect and has some serious flaws, read londonkds for the flaws in British Slang and British Setting, it was in some respects more enjoyable than The Long Journey Home which I found a tad silly in places and out of character in others. [See my posts on Long Journey Home for reasons why.] Also I should add that of the four issues in this arc, this one was by far one of the best. Maybe not the best drawn (that would have been issue 8 or last month's issue) but certainly the most satisfying.
( cut for major plot spoilers - enter at your own risk )