Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel

Dark Horse (2007)

RATING: 2/5 Stakes

BACK-OF-THE-BOOK SUMMARY: "Buffy Summers--at once invincible and vulnerable, beautiful and brave--has grown into a mythic figure. After a shaky start inthe cult film, her icon status arose with the 1997 launch of Joss Whedon's critically acclaimed television series, where her valley-girl charm won audiences young and old. It seemed only natural that this Slayer of vampires and demons would find herself the start of her own comic. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel collects the artwork that first brought the comic book to life, including work by acclaimed artists J. Scott Campbell, Tim Sale, Jeff Matsuda, and Eric Powell. This book captures the action, adventure, and drama of the television show through comic-book storytelling. Each image reveals the creative and collaborative efforts that have made Buffy a success in both TV and comics. Panel to Panel chronicles Buffy's life, death, and resurrection, and catapults fans into Whedon's comic-book continuation of the show in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight."

REVIEW

Panel to Panel is basically a collection of covers, interior artwork, and concept designs taken from Dark Horse Comics original run of Buffy comics (that is, the comics before Joss Whedon took a direct hand with the launch of Season Eight). There's a few paragraphs here and there written by Scott Allie, the comics' editor, about why certain artists were chosen. But by and large this is very much an art book--and if you have the actual comics, you can see pretty much everything that's in this book. In other words, as far as I can tell, unless you're crazy about comic art there's not really a lot of point to buying Panel to Panel.