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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, Volume 2: On Your Own by Scott Allie, Andrew Chambliss, Joss Whedon
3.0

Buffy keeps chugging along in season 9 with good tales that could be great.

So this time we have a situation we've seen so many times, someone is pregnant! Yep, this is a good way to stir the drama. However, it is building towards a interesting side of things and what to do with the pregnancy. Before Buffy could decide what to do we have a huge reveal that kind of changes everything about the storyline. By the we resulted in a "will I ever be happy" feel and going towards maybe a new idea of what Buffy should do.

Good: I actually thought the drama with the baby was good, and asked a great question. Spike worked well here and I liked him a lot for once. With the art getting better (not sure if new artist) the fight scenes look better too.

Bad: The twist kind of threw the more emotional and down to earth story right out the window. I also thought the villain feels so weak in compared to what this series usually has to offer.

Overall, enjoyable, but middle of the road stuff. As expected with season 9, least it's better than the 2nd half of season 8. A 3 out of 5.