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Predators and Prey by Doug Petrie, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jane Espenson, Jim Krueger
3.0

These are basically just one shot stories throughout this volume. Felt like each issue or so was a episode of Buffy. So what does that mean? Some are better than others.

We have the whole dawn situation finally wrapped up in this volume. We also have Buffy sending one of her top Slayers to check up on a division in Tokyo, which leads to a lot of lesbian yelling (No really, they argue and complain about lesbian stuff I'm not being sexist) and then there's also story with Faith and Giles. Oh yeah, and remember the fancy annoying vampire Spike hooked up with? Harmony somehow got the bright idea to turn the world against slayers and love vampires...yep it happened.

Good: The storyline with Giles and Faith is pretty solid. Little predictable but something about faith in comic form is really well done. I also enjoyed Dawn storyline getting wrapped up and was wondering how long they could extend it. But it was well done and Dawn is back to being a regular girl.

Bad: The storyline with character's checking in, and dealing with the lesbian crush on buffy and sleeping with her wasn't all that interesting or fun and went on too long. I also thought the Harmony twist was kind of...dumb.

Overall it's a uneven volume. While not great, but not horrible, it stands to have a few good scenes in each issue worth reading. Hopefully series gets back on track soon. A 3 out of 5.