| Title | : | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 159307963X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781593079635 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 |
| Publication | : | First published May 14, 2008 |
| Awards | : | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Best New Series (2008) |
Georges Jeanty (The American Way) remains at the top of his game as series artist, and Whedon continues as Executive Producer in this direct follow-up to Season Seven of the smash-hit TV series.
* Eisner award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y:The Last Man, Ex Machina) tackles Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.
* Collecting issue #6-10 of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You Reviews
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I read this maybe ten years or more ago, but now the fam has watched the whole series, and we told them season eight picks up right where season seven left off so I will read into it because all of season eight is lying around here and I can’t stand not participating in what they are talking about, so here I go. The first volume was to me surprisingly not great as it was written by Joss and he is clearly one of the best writers of sf on tv and film. This second one is better, done by his buddy and one of the best writers of comics of all time, Brian Vaughn, who chooses right away to write about Faith, who takes on a rogue slayer named Gigi with the help of Giles (That Faith comes from Cleveland--where Vaughn is from—made me smile).
Everything here about Faith and her struggles between good and evil is good and the snarky Vaughn dialogue (especially re: Faith) is perfect for her and the Buffyverse, just quip after quip. It’s just a guest shot so Vaughn’s heart may not be really deeply into it, but his writing moves my 3.5 story rating to 4, overcoming for the moment my not loving the art in the series. I am a fan of Willow and Kennedy so I am good seeing them still together in their part. I like seeing the Xander-Dawn relationship developing. -
“Hey I like me so kink but if you think I’m going downtown on this chick you chose the wrong chosen one”
Ohhh Faith, how I’ve missed you girl.
Here in Volumen II Faith steals the show completely. Our evil slayer in on a mission and it’s not just the pleasure of seeing her again, it’s the fact that she also makes you think about redemption, about being lonely, the necessity all of us have to be loved. But, mostly, what her parts show us, is how difficult and tricky is to have power and use it for the good. All that amount of girls being powerful, almost invencible, out of danger and all? Hell yes, women power! BUT we’re forgetting that not every woman is good, there’s a lot of mean girls out there who doesn’t deserve a gift like that... f*ck, I’m getting deep. I’m out.
Two other parts here, not my favorites but we get to see Twilight for the first time and even if I don’t know if I get what happens in the last third of this volume, it sets a wonderful continuation where lies and mistrust are the basis. So what can I say? on to the next!
Again, Highly recommend for Buffy fans
Reviews for Book Lovers
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I love that the big bad of Season 8 is "Twilight".
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I’m hooked! I wasn’t crazy about the first volume, but this one was amazing! I absolutely LOVED how we got to explore Faith‘s character. I loved the flashbacks to her childhood, how we got to see how she viewed her relationship with the Mayor and Buffy in season 3, and ultimately find out exactly what makes her tick. I loved all of it!
Also - is it just me or did they finally manage to make Dawn not a whiney, annoying character, but a three-dimensional woman who makes mistakes and feels guilty about it!? Still don’t like Kennedy, though. -
Buffy gets better and better. I never really bothered reading the comics but now that it's coming to a end (Believe season 12 is the last series there will be) I'm excited to finally catch up! Especially since my wife is almost done watching the entire show and I'm catching episodes here and there and remembering why I enjoyed it.
So yeah, here we go, this volume really focuses on Faith. I'm that one odd buffy fan who isn't all in love with her. I find her kind of annoying to be honest. However, she works on a lot of levels here. This time written by Brian K. Vaughan we have a woman trying to find her place in the world while also doing the dirtier missions Giles needs done without involving Buffy. This leads to Faith going face to face with another Slayer, but this one is actually haunting down other ones and killing them to get ready to take out Buffy.
Good: I really enjoyed this from start to finish. The faith monologue really helps give new light on the character and make me feel for her. The fights are brutal and some really screwed up deaths. I also enjoyed the hell out of the Giles moments with Faith and them working together. The Final volume also is basically warning for what is to come but it's pretty exciting.
Bad: The art can be a little wonky at times. I'm not a HUGE fan of how the artist draws hair as it makes it hard to tell who is who sometimes.
Overall, buffy the vampire slayer season 8 improves with it's second volume. Hoping it continues to stay this good or get better. A 4 out of 5. -
This is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I adored this TV show and I can't count how many times I watched this. So this is season 8. I'm glad the story lives on, but I do have an issue. This whole book would be about 1 episode, but so much happens so quickly and I don't feel the storyline is fleshed out the way it would be for TV. It seems rushed. The dialogue is classic Buffy and it makes me miss the show.
So many wonderful characters are back in this volume plus some new characters. Gigi was a real piece of work. The whole arc with Faith was the highlight of the volume. I am a fan of Willow and Kennedy so I am happy to see that they are still together. That makes me happy. I know many in the fandom couldn't let her move on from Tara to Kennedy, but I love Kennedy and I think she is a great opposite for Willow. They make a fantastic team.
I'm interested in where the Willow arc is going. I did love the last chapter in this where Willow and Buffy go to this reality bending place with an excellent demon. There are pieces I would love to see put on screen. I am sucked in to the world again, so don't be surprised if i review much of the rest of the series for the rest of the year.
These are pure fun and a pleasure to read. Anyone who was a fan of the show and likes comics should give these a go. I need to catch up on the story. I see they have started Season 12 this year. I don't hear about it as much from Buffy fans, so I wonder if people are still reading these. -
I absolutely loved this addition to the series, and it is probably because Faith was the center of it.
Faith was my favorite character for the TV show. She was not good but she was not evil; she rode that line everyday of her life. When she went over the line, she didn't know what she could do to get back, so she embraced it. She is very human to me. Buffy didn't like her because she was her bizzaro-superman, or polar opposites yet the same. Yes, she did some awful things to Buffy but Buffy should understand the horror and power that comes with being a slayer.
No matter what Faith does, she is always in the shadow of the perfect-blonde Vampire Slayer Buffy. She hates that so much but she also loves Buffy no matter what she does.
Giles asks Faith to do one last mission for him, for it could save the world. If she does it, she will get a free ticket to anywhere she wants and retire as a slayer. As Faith is a wanted criminal, she has been trying to get out of the country for a very long time. So she agrees.
And of course, because it is Faith and Whedon is the one that wrote this, things go terribly south and complications arise.
I love this volume. I liked that we can focus on other characters in the series. We do see Buffy, Willow and Xander and they do have things going on themselves. The focus was mostly on Faith though, and I appreciated that. -
So I read the first Volume of season 8 last month and didn't really think much of it. I think I didn't really connect with the story as much because I'm so used to watching Buffy on a screen. I have also found that it usually takes me reading more than one Volume of a comic series for me to get into it (I had the same with Saga). So I figured I would give this one a go and see what I thought!
- So let's begin: I enjoyed this Volume SO much more than the first. I wouldn't say I'm completely drawn in yet but I know I definitely want to continue reading now that I have enjoyed this one. So this Volume continues on where the last one left off - a few of my questions were answered and I feel like I understand what is going on a lot more than I did with Volume 1!
- Faith makes an appearance in this Volume - I would note that Faith was one of my least favourite characters in the TV show but I actually found her to be quite likable in the comic book (how weird is that?!).
- Most of this Volume was based around Faith's attempt to take down a rogue slayer and the trouble that lands her in with Buffy come the end. It was really rather enjoyable!
- I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is feeling unsure after reading Volume 1, I feel a lot better towards the comic books now that I have got a bit more of the story. Really looking forward to continuing the season and sharing my thoughts with you! -
Still... meh. It's not blowing me away and I feel like I'm not reading canon. However, I did enjoy this more than the first volume, and the Faith/Giles story line was spot on for everything.
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Adding Faith into the mix will always increase the story for me! I'm always entertained when she's around whether it be for good or evil. Her character has always been intriguing and well done. The final chapter in this is slightly confusing and I do not even know what it has/had to do with the overall plot, but, eh... I'll take it!
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"I ain't your beloved Buffy, I'm the go-to girl for dirty deeds done dirt cheap, right?
So what do you need me to kill?"
Yes, Buffy has a lot of bad shit happen to her, not going to argue that, but no matter what she has her friends, her watcher, she had her mother who loved and supported her. Faith has none of these support systems, she is all alone, hating her bad choices and trying to cope. If Buffy is the sunny "Flash" side of Marvel (recent TV SHOW) then Faith if one of the heroes from Hell's Kitchen. She is Jessica Jones to Buffy's sunny-er hero.
The first four comics of this new volume concentrate on Faith and Giles and this strange, yet not so strange, pact they form in order to take care of the more dirty jobs so the Scoobie gang won't have to face the dark side. --SIDENOTE: when are we getting a Giles exclusive comics on his Reaper days?! I am dying to read about rebellious Giles!-- A slayer has alligned herself with big bad Twilight and someone has to take the trash out, here comes Faith. She is still a convicted criminal on the run, her past crimes have not been forgotten and in fact we even get to see her dwelve on her relationship with The Major and even see her struggle with the memory of Buffy stabbing her. It is a nice change of space being inside Faith's head and seeing her motivations. Faith is only seeking true love and companionship, but her lot in life is to get used and discarded. I am hoping this new alliance with Giles bears fruit, and that she doesn't get hurt yet again by those close to her.
Along with Faith we get to see the new bad slayer who is being brainwashed by the Twilight peeps. She and Faith instantly connect, which of course they do since they have the same attitude. After the Faith adventure it is revealed that Buffy and Giles are on the outs, for some reason, and Giles goes off to help Faith with more slayers.
Also it is revealed who Buffy's benefactor is, and it is surprising to say the least; I also think it wasn't discussed nearly enough . Willow and Buffy go on a journey to try and get some answers regarding Twilight and instead they discover some truths about each other that create a bit of space between them. In the end the great storytelling, fantastic narration, and great dialogue (not to mention the fantastic art!) make this volume a must read. I am so very happy the series was continued in comic form! No matter how much I miss the actors sometimes the spirit of the show lives on. -
I don't envy anyone having to follow up Whedon's arc -- not only was it a good story, but you're being compared to Whedon writing Buffy. Its like being asked to sing James Brown at karaoke, only to find out that James Brown was going to be at the party too. Unfortunately, this is sort of what Vaughn tries to do -- a karaoke of Whedon, at times trying so hard to hit the witty-banter dialogue that is Buffy's hallmark that it comes across as more Whedon than Whedon, borderline parody. Still better than any of the X-comics I habitually consume, but had Vaughn just thrown Whedon to the wind and written as himself it would have been much stronger.
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So glad I kept going with this series cause I liked vol 2 WAY more than vol 1. I'm not totally sure why. Was it that Faith showed up in a major way and I love her and her badassery and her pain? Was it because there was lots of Willow and Buffy friend time? Am I more used to Buffy in a new format now? Was it because there was a Faith/Buffy fight--cough, sex-- scene? Is it that Brian K Vaughan is just good at writing comics and Joss Whedon is not? Whatever, I am pumped for the next one.
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Much too short! Great drawing. The pictures are the end are great and the pictures, really portraits, at the beginning of each episode are incredible. It as great to see Faith and Giles and their dark sides. Willow's fantasy woman is hilarious, literally, and so Joss. The rest was just ok.
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I didn't like the art, but Vaughan's story didn't let me down.
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Enter Faith. Enter 5 stars.
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Faithim geldi canım karım işte yavaş yavaş buffy evreninde hissetmeye başladım yalnız ben aramızdaki sorunlar artık biraz son bulur sanmıştım hala aynılar saka mısınız siz hem birbirlerini bu kadar sevip -aynen öldüresiye.- hem de kıskanclıktan kudurmaları gerçekten çok özel. Geçmişte yaşanan bazı sahneleri Faith hatırlayınca yine fenalastım yani aşamamasını da anlıyorum onun Buffy gibi koşulsuz sevilmedi hep işleri düşünce hatırladıkları kişi olduğunu düşünüyor...Giles ile farklı bir yola gircekler gibi bakalım daha da güzelleşcez 😌
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Loved getting more exploration and development of Faith in this volume! She’s such a dynamic character and watching her growth is entertaining yet endearing; I’m rooting for her as much as ever now. Also WILLOW!! Ugh Willow ily❤️
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In a Sentence:No Future for You takes an intriguing look at the character of Faith and her emerging role as an experienced Slayer in a world full of girls who are just coming into their powers.
My Thoughts
I've loved the character of Faith since she I first met her in Season 3 of Buffy. One of the things that intrigues me so much about Faith is that she serves as a foil to Buffy--an example of what could happen when those with power become intoxicated by it and choose to shirk their responsibilities. Though the end of the television series sees Faith returning to the side of the good guys, there was an almost tangible feeling of division between Faith and the rest of the Scooby gang. Faith's isolation continues in No Future for You as she is recruited by Giles to do the unthinkable--to kill another Slayer.
I loved seeing a deeper, more focused exploration of Faith's character. The one little complaint I have about No Future for You is that (in my opinion, of course) no written or two-dimensional graphic representation of Faith can be as phenomenal as Eliza Dusku's portrayal of the character onscreen. Don't get me wrong...No Future for You was a great read...it just made me wish that there was a film version of it the entire time that I was reading it! I feel like other major characters, like Xander, Willow, Giles, and even Buffy herself translated a little better from screen to page then Faith did, though you can definitely still notice her vivid character traits and qualities.
Still, No Future for You wonderfully illustrates Faith's struggle to find her place in a world that doesn't accept her. Faith is possibly one of the most tortured characters in film (and now, literary) history. Though Faith eventually fought through her temptation to succumb to darkness in the TV series, that temptation is obviously still present in her mind as she journeys to dispose of a rogue Slayer (Gigi) who is abusing her powers. Faith, who probably sees a lot of herself in Gigi, is torn about killing her and even tries to bring her back from the brink. The entirety of this graphic novel shows the depth of Faith's internal struggle over her past actions and her quest for redemption. I'd highly recommend this to any fans of the TV series! -
Fans of the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer show were crushed when the series was canceled after the seventh season. Joss Whedon, the series' creator and writer of a number of popular comic books, decided that he would move on with the story by presenting an eighth season in a graphic novel format. This is the second volume of the series, which presents what would be considered a second episode.
Fans will be thrilled to see that the rebellious slayer Faith comes to the fore in this tale when she is contacted by Giles in order to take out another slayer that has turned bad. Giles has promised to give Faith a whole new identity in order to avoid the authorities in their search to bring her in for all of her past crimes. The hope is to protect Buffy from a slayer of lower British nobility who seems to have come under the sway of a wizard with a dark outlook on the slayers.
It is clear that the two of them are hoping to take over the new slayers, forming an empire of superwomen to rule the world. To give you an idea of the evil of these to, you should know that they bring in other slayers for the good lady to hunt down and kill.
Faith finds comfort in her acceptance with the new slayer since she has always felt overshadowed by Buffy and mistreated by the whole Scooby gang.
B-stories include Willow sorting through some decisions Buffy has made in the previous episode that make her question the slayers' actions and Dawn coming to terms with growing up both into adulthood and her recent curse of giantism.
Like the television show, the graphic novel does a great job of exploring the characters and questioning the real definitions of good and evil. The illustrations do a great job of capturing the appearances of familiar charactrs. -
This was happily much more cohesive and enjoyable than the first volume in the series, and it wasn't until the end that I realized the biggest story arc in here was written by Brian K. Vaughn, rather than Joss Whedon, so that made a lot of sense to me. Considering how much I've enjoyed Vaughn's other works, and the fact he's much more practiced in scripting for a comic book, it makes sense that the pacing and storytelling was better for me. The final arc (which would have been a single issue) written by Whedon himself was also better than the first volume.
Either way, the story is getting much more into the swing of things here, and this volume does a better job of balancing the action with some better fleshing out of what the characters are going through. Enough had changed in the time between the finale and the comics kicking in that it is necessary to have some of that filled in.
I'm glad this volume is also dealing with the ramifications of Buffy's choice at the end of the season 7 to give all Slayer potentials the full power of the Slayers, and it becomes very obvious that not everyone will be using that power for good. It's something that did bug me with the show, and it's good to see that actually playing into things. -
Joss Whedon and Brian K. Vaughan join forces to update us on what rogue vampire Faith has been doing since we last saw here at the end of Buffy.
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3rd Read: 8/20/2015
2nd Read: 5/24/2014
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Another mad decent installment, if a bit rushed.
I very much appreciated seeing Giles and Faith together on the page--Giles is right to claim that he and Faith have a lot in common, and I hope that we see more of them together as the season progresses. It was also interesting, if not entirely believable, to witness Faith's interactions with Gigi. I'm of the opinion that nobility / the super rich can sniff out an imposter within moments, though, so I had to suspend a lot of disbelief. I wish we'd gotten more reflection from Faith on her upbringing when juxtaposed against Gigi's.
The Faith/Buffy relationship has always been fraught and incredibly compelling, so I'm not surprised that I found this volume engrossing. Faith's thought patterns about Buffy are so melancholic and disordered, steeped in this anguish of missed opportunity that I so rarely see matched. I wish we had gotten something similar from Buffy, but as in the original series, she defaults mostly to "Faith = evil skank, what else do you expect" and then moves on, which has always been a disservice to their dynamic and which is what has kept them static since season 3 ended. I would love to see Buffy view Faith with half as much nuance as Faith views her, but something tells me this is never to be.
The ending chapter confused the hell out of me, also, which may have been the point but which might have been executed in a way that was a bit less annoying. I'm still waiting for Willow's storyline to kick into gear--we got a little reflection on her complicated history with girlfriends mixing with the Scooby gang, but it felt surface-level.
I can't wait to see more familiar faces in the next volumes! -
The second volume of Season 8 breaks away from the emerging threat of Twilight to focus on another returning character: Faith. Brian K. Vaughan takes up the writing duties for a four-issue arc. Apparently still on her quest for redemption and self-acceptance, Faith is contacted by a similarly disenfranchised Giles and offered a deal. If she can get close to and take out a rogue Slayer that runs in British high society, he will provide her the resources to travel anywhere she wants to go in order to get away from vampires and hellmouths.
Whedon returns to write the last story in the volume, a one-shot that is almost entirely composed of foundation for future issues, with a fight scene thrown in for flavor. Buffy and Willow confront a demon to get more information on Twilight, and address some of the growing discord between the two of them. Meanwhile, the reader learns a little bit more about Dawn’s giantess predicament.
The screen-to-comic format works a lot better in this volume, and Vaughan’s writing is a match for Whedon’s. Jeanty’s illustrations still tread a nice line between photorealism and an original take on the characers. Still, this volume feels very setup-heavy. We get a little villainous monologue at the end that moves things forward, but beyond that, this volume is still in the territory of establishing characters and foreshadowing conflicts, and so I never got too worked up while reading it. Faith’s undercover mission, interplay with Gigi, and resulting alliance with Giles are all interesting, but happen very quickly. Whedon’s story at the end is diverting, but not particularly substantial.
That being said, I can see the strands being drawn together. I think that once I read the next few volumes and the main story arc finally gets going, I’ll appreciate this volume and the previous volume a little more. I’m still not particularly impressed with Season 8 as standalone stories up to this point, but I'm getting a sense of the bigger picture. -
We get to see a lot of character interaction in No Future For You, between Faith and Giles, Buffy and Willow, and Dawn and Xander. The character pairings give Buffy fans something they've been missing since the end of the show - that wonderful spark between certain characters that we can't get enough of. Much of the past shines through as these characters take on new challenges together. Oh, and Dawn seems much less grating. Of course, that may be because I can't actually hear her because she's certainly still whining up a storm.
As the story continues in this second volume, we're still trying to get a good picture of what's going on. No Future For You moves along a little slower than the last volume, but that could be personal bias due to my intense dislike and disinterest in Faith and all that she does. Either way, No Future For You is still amazing - the pictures and the story.
I thought that reading these graphic novels would be a poor substitute that could possibly help to fill the void Buffy the Vampire Slayer left behind. To my complete surprise, this volume, along with its predecessor, is so very good, it ranks right up there with the very best episodes of the show. -
Rating: 4.5
No Future For You, the fantastic sequel to The Long Way Home does not disapppoint. It's another return to the brilliant characters brought to life by Joss Whedon. The wittiness of the storyline & hilarity keeps you entertained. While the fast-paced action filled with magic is not bad either.
No Future For You is the return to Faith, a character to the series who is also a Slayer & has a frenemies relatioship with Buffy. Faith is a strong character that struggles with her past & bad decisions she made during her younger years. And we also see a darker side of Buffy when she struggles with her belief of Faith's recovery from the dark side.
No Future For You is a great story because we see not only external struggle for the characters, but internal as well. They are so many stories going on, Buffy's, Faith's, Dawns' & all interwoven into a magnificient story.
No Future For You should not be let pass, but read immediately, just like all of Buffy's comic.
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Ah ha, yes, this is where it all started to get more interesting.
Morally dubious Giles being morally dubious as he recruits morally conflicted Faith, for morally dodgy fun times in soggy old England together. Good stuff.
And of course Buffy gets involved, promptly gets completely the wrong end of the stick, and leaps to all sorts of conclusions. And whatever did Giles do that put them in a place where they don't speak to each other at all? I can't wait to find out. The Buffy/Giles dynamic was my favourite in the tv show, and I look forward to it here too.
Plus, Giles and Faith are sort of a natural fit. Absolutely love the bit where Faith spots his tattoo and he's like, really Faith, do you think you're the only teenaged rebel ever?
The standalone with the prophetic demon dude was... I think deliberately overly obtuse, as oracles tend to be, but this one just sort of needed a thwap on the nose. Bad oracle. No treats.
Lovely story in the letters pages about the identity of the woman playing the guardian.
