Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“If the apocolypse comes, beep me.”

Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz

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Early in the pandemic, a friend and I were looking for a way to have a social outlet while trapped at home. As we are both extroverts married to introverts, we figured that it would help us, and our partners. In the same convo, I discovered that she had never seen one of my top favorite TV shows of all time…Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And thus, an idea took hold. We would watch Buffy together but apart, she in Louisiana and me in Illinois, with […]

Farewell to the Scoobies

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 12 by Christos Gage, et al.

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Buffy, Willow, Xander, Dawn, Giles, Angel, Spike, Faith, and Fray return for one final apocalyptic showdown against the forces of darkness in Season 12 of the Boom! comics Buffy the Vampire Slayer continuation. Unlike previous seasons, Season 12 has only four issues and a more narrow focus. The shortened season is due to an impending deadline when 20th Century Fox regained the rights to Buffy and a planned reboot for the series. This just made me realize that now that Disney owns Fox, they now […]

You (still) can’t take the sky from me.

Firefly: The Unification War (Vol. 1-3) by Greg Pak (Writer), Dan McDaid (Illustrations), Marcelo Costa (Coloring)

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Everyone’s favorite band of space smugglers are back in the black with Boom!Studios comics revival of Firefly. Fans of the criminally short-lived Fox tv series Firefly have been waiting for a continuation of the beloved series. After the big-screen Serenity ended the series with a bang the property lay dormant for a few years. Every now and then a new graphic novel would drop but those all took place after Serenity or heavily featured flashbacks to tie in dead characters. That is until Boom! Studios […]

Pop the Classic

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This is a take-off of the Buffy Summers story during the TV series, but forgets there was movie (as many fans do). Most of Sunnydale is there (Willow, Xander, Giles, Buffy’s mom) but has Buffy as an 8-year-old girl, just coming into her knowledge she is a slayer, instead of the teen she is during the series.   Actually, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Picture Book starts off with Buffy “now” doing what she does best (slaying vampires) and then flashes back to being eight […]

Once More With Feeling

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Old wounds, old enemies, and old questions all play a big part in season 10 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse Comics.  For the first time since the series was restarted in comics format this season feels the most like the original television series in both scope and the characters and how the interact with each other. If you are not caught up on the series I will try to quickly summarize the pertinent bits. If you are not familiar with the series […]

If you’re obsessed with firefly you’ll love this book [gif-edition]

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I read this twice. The minute I finished it, I turned right back to the front and I read it all again. Shepherd Book is one of the quieter characters in Firefly. Mostly, he stays out of battles and on the edges of the scenes. It’s easy to forget those people sometimes, the ones who support the big damn heroes. But the Shepherd held the ship together. His mere steadfastness was what everybody on that ship needed. And the fact that he was a little […]



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