Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11 Volume 2: One Girl in All the World

 

So Season 11 of "Buffy" is only two volumes. The second volume picks up where the first one left off: Buffy, Spike, and Willow are still in the safe zone. The government is offering everyone a deal: if they'll allow their supernatural powers to be drained they can leave. Spike of course can't do that, since it would kill him, but after much discussion Willow and Buffy decide to take the deal. They figure if they can get out they can hopefully think of a way to expose what the government is doing and rescue Spike. Faith (Faith!!) comes back from her posh life in England to help out. She still has her slayer powers, of course, even though Buffy is now just an ordinary girl. Buffy realizes as much as being the Slayer sometimes weighed on her, it's what she was meant to do and misses having her powers (no word on if she misses, you know, actually KILLING VAMPIRES).  

They are able to break into the safe zone facility and shut down the force field keeping all the vampires and demons in, freeing all of them. Buffy and Spike are reunited (Faith to Willow when she sees them kissing: "Still?" Willow: "We're all pleasantly surprised"). Well, as you can imagine, a bunch of half-starved vampires suddenly being freed isn't terrific and they go on a killing spree, basically vindicating everyone who was afraid of them and advocating that they should be locked up. Buffy & Co. figure out the government is using the magic they sucked out of everyone to make hybrid creatures that are part animal (or human) and part magic (think Adam from "Buffy" season 4). The machine the government is secretly building is a satellite that will be able to suck the magic out of everyone on earth, effectively killing all the vampires at once. Again, I see why Buffy wouldn't want this because of Spike, but the rest of them? Not really such a bad thing, right? They find out who the ringleader in the government is and fight her. Willow and Buffy were able to get their own magic back, and Willow does a reverse spell on the scythe to take the Slayer power away from all the other girls in the world and give it all to Buffy, effectively making her the one and only Chosen One again. They defeat the Big Bad, destroy the magic sucking machine, expose the evil plan to the world, and go home. Some of the former slayers show up at Buffy's apartment and ask her to give them their power back, and she does.

I wouldn't have, but clearly Buffy is more forgiving than I am. 

The Scoobies have a lovely barbeque and celebrate and Buffy and Spike are happy together and all's right in my little corner of the world and I have a really bad feeling I should quit reading these comics now before something bad happens.

Because something bad always happens.