What's Old Is New: How Buffy Season 10 Flourished by Being Itself in an Evolving Age of Comics
After two narrative-pushing story arcs, “Love Dares You” (#11-13) finds Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 in a relaxed state that harkens back to the television show's lighter toned Monster-of-the-Week installments. It's a mode that was as pivotal and often used in the TV series as its season-length story arcs and mythology building episodes, but have taken a back seat during the show's canonical comic book revival. One of the challenges faced with adapting a TV series into an ongoing comic format is accommodating to the differences in form. A 22-episode TV series can move between series-arc and episodic adventures smoothly, because of all they can accomplish in a 43-minute episode. A comic season can't juggle the two modes quite as easily. A 22-page comic isn't the story-telling equivalent of an hour-long episode, so a classic episode such as “Pangs” or “Band Candy” cannot be told with the same clarity in just a single issue of a modern comic. I say modern, b