Uhhhhh, everyone seems to completely hate this one so far. Should I even start it???Yeahhh, I shouldn't have. This was not good. I mean...I guess the art was fine? The writing was terrible, and several times it was like the writer and artist didn't even communicate at all what was going on in a scene, so it's choppy and confusing and there are weird continuity issues. And then the insta-love! This is Giles we're talking about here! It didn't make any sense. And we never did get any sort of expla...

To be honest, I couldn't make myself finish this. Awful dialogue, confusing storytelling. And I didn't catch even a whiff of the Giles I know and love in the main character.

The dialogue is painfully overwrought. Oozing with the author's misplaced conviction in the coolness of her writing. It's just too artificial, like a hyper-reality out of the 80s or early 90s. Wildly inconsistent with the other books it is in continuity with, which is probably the biggest problem. Her writing probably works better elsewhere....

This was interesting. Also cool that Erika Alexander from Living Single does comics, graphic novels. Honestly was surprised when I saw her name on here. Good volume though.

Avoid this if you don't like forced romances, long speeches filled with exposition, characters used as plot devices, bad dialogue and continuity errorsRead as individual issues as they were released.I have huge issues with this story: 1) The dialogue. The story is supposedly co-written my Joss Whedon, but his trademark witty dialogue is missing throughout the entire story and it is replaced by a completely off-sounding and somewhat pretentious dialogue that would never pass human (or vampire) li...

Another disappointing miss from Buffy Season 11, joining Angel Season 11 as easily the worst comics to come out of Dark Horse’s canon Buffyverse. I read the four issues as they came out monthly, and I tried to love it and give the benefit of the doubt. But this series just made no sense! It was sloppily written and honestly hard to follow. Giles also didn’t sound like Giles, and you can tell the writer (not Joss, because you can also tell he didn’t write a damn word of this) was only interested

A rather sloppy start to this new arc featuring Giles in High School while the rest of the gang was in the camps. My biggest issue is that they aged Giles up 3 years out of nowhere, and seriously, don't try to sell me that 3 years have passed since he's been brought back, they made a big deal that he was going to high school early because of his smarts. I think there should have been more commentary on how school has changed since he was a teacher, instead of him pulling a Buffy and falling for

This was terrible...so disappointing.

I was excited when I heard Kid Giles got his own series, but this was horrid. The dialogue was so unnatural and forced that I had to force myself to even finish this. Stodgy Giles going back to high school should have played to the strengths of the Buffyverse. But after the first issue, the writer seems to have forgotten they are even going to high school. Giles falls in love with a vampire at first sight which would never happen. He's a friggin' Watcher. So many continuity errors. This is also

I just assumed that this would be pretty good. But I was so, so wrong.The biggest problem was the dialogue. The writing. The fact no one talked like a normal person. The cadence, word choice, and references were so odd and unnatural, I felt like I was trying to read with a migraine. Like I was holding my tongue between my teeth the whole time. But there were so many other issues. The fact Giles was interested in a vampire girl before he had any indication that she might have a soul? The fact he

This volume focuses on Giles going to High school and of course something fishy is going on there that he has to fight. He meets a girl. What I don’t understand is that he’s a 50 year old man in a teenagers body. He has all this experience and life skill that should make him confident and able to deal with girls. I don’t buy the shy guy not knowing what to do. He knows what a relationship is. AnywayA school is being brain drained from some unknown force and people are way more disinterested than...

I was so looking forward to this comic – I pre-ordered it, at full price, without first reading any reviews (which I hardly ever do). I loved the Buffy and Angel series on TV – watched the episodes over and over. Likewise, loved Firefly and Serenity – and thought that Joss Whedon could do no wrong. It turns out, he can. This comic is proof that Whedon is only human, and capable of producing duds like everyone else.I have no problems with Giles being reincarnated as a teenager in body, but with h...

I finished this graphic novel late last night and was left with a feeling of "what the crap?"There have been a wide range of emotions I've had in regards to the Buffyverse graphic novels. The first season Buffy was ridiculous but Faith and Angel was pretty cool. And then that completely switched during the most recent seasons. And I did like the touch of young Giles during the earlier parts of the series but this...this was just wrong. The plot made no sense and went no where and even worse, Gil...

I did not care for this. I liked the title, that was promising. but the style was so off. the writing was just off to me. there is also a running mixtape thing at the bottoms of the pages where you're supposed to play a certain song - which...what a pain. the music is all over the place, barbara streisand to whatever indie bands I'm not cool enough to have heard of. so you play something, ok, then what if you get to the next cue before the song ends? I'm sure most people blow that part off, so w...

There’s always that one odd bad episode of Buffy, in the comics this is that bad episode. First Giles aged a lot in the drawing style for a series supposed set after Buffy 11 issue one and before Buffy 11 issue 12. Second the story is just boring. Third the link with the demon to Giles is cliche and boring. Fourth Giles falls for a vampire and they constantly discuss killing one another. But I liked the suggested mix tape listening to go with the story.

I’m sad I didn’t love this one. Giles is one of my fav characters, and I’ve actually really enjoyed his arc in the comics so I was excited for this! Unfortunately, I found this one to be a bit disjointed, and lacking a lot of the warmth and humour of previous volumes. I’ll be interested to see if Giles gets more of his own stories though because the potential is there!

This is an actual turd that I’m pretending doesn’t exist. I'd been looking forward to this but this is a weird, disjointed mess. 😕

Really struggled to get through this, and didn't follow what was going on. My least favourite of all the Buffy comics.

Don't know if it's because I haven't read any Buffy graphic novels before or if this one just has a really disjointed storyline but I could not follow along whatsoever. Loved the art but holy hell insta love and no clear idea of what the heck was happening.

I hate that I hated this :( The magically resurrected Giles has made it to high school age, and is enrolled in a school even more messed up than Sunnydale High. Shenanigans ensue.I didn't believe the motivations for an instant, the story was "whatever," the other major character was superficial at best, the art was confusing and most of the time between the dialogue and the action I had no idea what was happening. Boo.