Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Volume 4: Time of Your Life

by Jeph Loeb and Joss Whedon

Willow and Buffy head to New York City to unlock the secrets of Buffy's mysterious scythe, when something goes terribly awry. Buffy is propelled into a dystopian future where there's only one Slayer -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595823107
• ISBN13: 9781595823106
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Dark Horse Books
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Not a comic book fan.....but

I love all things Buffy. The book I ordered from you got here really fast. I like fast. No complaints here. It would be better if I was able to by the entire set of season 8 comic book/graphic novels of Buffy because it can get a little confusing.

Buffy for the win

Buffy season 8 is great for the person who wants to see how joss whedons idea of the buffy-verse continues on with no networks, and with limitless creativity. Highly recommend it.

Buffy still rocks

I really missed the show, but these comics have been true to the tone of the show, and Whedon's hand is still apparent. Sometimes the drawings are "off" (can't tell for a minute who it is); I wish they could use the artists that do the best covers for the entire booklet.

Awesome!!!!!!!!

Loved it!!! The cross over between Buffy and Fray is amazing! When I knew it was going to happen in this episode of Season Eight I read the Fray comic before so I would understand where she was coming from. It is an absolute must for a Buffy fan!!! You won't be disappointed!

Effortlessly excellent

Having read the first five reviews, I have to say my piece. Season 8 has been better than any of the TV seasons because Whedon's stories are no longer limited by filming budget. After Buffy's trip to Japan in "Wolves at the Gate", the next trip that would have been impossible on TV was to take Buffy to the future. The story has been criticized for being nothing more than a needless excuse for Buffy to meet (and fight) Fray. Is it really? The first 3½ pages disorient in a good way by throwing readers straight into the action before Whedon moves to a flashback sequence where we see how Buffy got onto that rooftop. Plus, he gives us a mystery of Dawn's transformation and the sudden switch of places in time between Buffy and the monster from the future, before ending the first episode in one of those wonderful Whedon cliffhangers. Then, the second episode starts, logically, by showing us how Fray got onto that rooftop. Whedon throws us a red herring when Buffy and Fray's antagonist in the future is described as "the dark-haired one" who has "lived for centuries, speaks in riddles and strange voices." This brings to mind a certain Vampire lady... Taking advantage of the fact that comics don't (usually) have sound, Whedon can even allow the "dark-haired one" to speak without the readers not being able to identify her by recognizing her voice. Clever. Whedon juggles the future storyline with the present day storyline, in which the assault on the Slayers' castle base drives Buffy's forces on the run, once again in a situation where the bad guys seem to be winning. This recalls the most dire situations our heroes have found themselves in the previous seasons while also being completely different. Then he ends the second episode with yet one Whedon-class revelation of the antagonists identity. And then the plot starts to unfold... By the time the fantastically cinematic double-climax (of present and future storylines) comes, Whedon still manages to find the time for yet another revelation and ends the story by having Buffy make a heart-breaking decision without really knowing why she has to do it. In the end, the readers also don't know why, which leaves us wanting more. Whedon has done this before and the mysteries have always been eventually solved satisfactorily. Just because Whedon does not yet tell us why all this happened does not mean it's not good storytelling. We are not seeing the big picture yet. That said, Whedon's dialogue is of the usual excellent quality and Moline's art *really* has evolved since Fray first came out. This is as worthy a mini-arc as any previous ones in Season Eight.