Tales of the Slayers # 1 (comic)

There's good news and bad news about the 2002 Tales of the Slayers one-shot.

It starts with a terrible eight-page story set during Season Two, with really bad kiddie cartoon artwork and an inane story about a genie in a bottle found in an old school locker.

Then it moves to a great, moody story set in New York in 1937, where a homeless Slayer named Rachel O'Connor is conscripted by the government to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring. Gene Colan's pencil-based art is gorgeous here and perfectly fits the atmosphere. The genie in a bottle plot ties in, but in a way that works.

I was thinking about putting in some sort of metaphor in this post about how you have to take the good with the bad in Tales of the Slayers, like a ham and shit sandwich, but then I changed my mind.