So far Season 8 has been really good! I ordered Season 9 and they're starting to roll in, but boy, is Season 10 going to be expensive to acquire. Apparently the last volume is super rare, I've seen it going for several hundred dollars. I'm not overly eager to spend that kind of money on something that's going to take me all of 45 minutes to read. We'll see once I get through Season 9.
Volume 4 "Time of Your Life" has Buffy traveling the future to kill the one and only Slayer, Melaka. Apparently all the good Buffy thought she did with sharing her powers with girls around the world was for naught, and in addition she ends up having to kill Dark Willow in the future, too. Ouch.
Meanwhile back in Scotland, Dawn is now a centaur. Dawn is seriously more trouble than she's worth.
Volume 5 "Predators and Prey" has Harmony getting her own MTV reality show. As a result of her popularity, vampires are seen as cool and the slayers are seen as evil and persecuting the innocent. Then there was some bit about killer stuffed cats, which makes perfect sense because in real life cats are evil (I am deeply allergic to cats. They aren't evil. I just don't like being around them).
Andrew has found his rogue slayer Nisha, who has taken over an island and raised an extinct demon called the Ragna Spider. Buffy manages to set the Ragna loose and it kills Nisha. Andrew feels guilty and Buffy comforts him. I must admit, I never liked Andrew on the show. Not the actor, I thought he did a good job, but as a character he was so annoying and I didn't find him charming at all. But in this issue he told Buffy he was Team Spike, so I'm liking Andrew a lot more now.
Faith and Giles visit a sanctuary for girls who were called to be slayers but don't want to be and discover the elders of the village are just using the girls to placate a demon who keeps them safe from vampires.
Dawn goes missing--she's been turned into a porcelain doll and is being held captive by a Geppetto like figure. Buffy and Xander rescue her and her ex-boyfriend removes his curse, turning Dawn into a normal sized human again. And Xander tells Buffy he was Team Riley. Xander, even Riley wasn't Team Riley. You're lucky I like you.
In Volume 6 "Retreat", the slayers head to Tibet to visit Oz, who has a wife (maybe? Partner?) and a baby boy! Get on with your bad self, Oz. Demons were able to attack them in Scotland because of the amounts of magic they were using, so Oz tries to help them rid themselves of their magic by returning it to the earth. Some of the slayers and witches are definitely not on board with giving away their powers (I wouldn't be, either). Turns out they're actually feeding it to three powerful, ancient goddesses. Andrew tells Giles he suspects there is a spy in their camp, and he's right: it's a cat. I told you cats are evil. Xander and Dawn are stocking up on military gear in preparation for Twilight's attack. It's clear right away that the slayers are losing, so they call up the goddesses to fight on their side, only the goddesses aren't interested in taking sides, they just want to kill. Buffy rescues an injured Riley from the battlefield: turns out he was a spy in Twilight's camp for her. During the battle Buffy gets knocked out and when she wakes up she discovers she is much stronger than she was before. Oh, and she can fly, so that's kinda cool.
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