4.0 out of 5 stars
Serving Slayer Sushi, July 13 2002
Set in the fifth season, 'False Memories' finds Buffy still trying to cope with the sudden acquisition of a younger sister. Not only is Dawn every bit as irritating as a sibling can be, Buffy keeps running into memories of Dawn's involvement in old episodes which weren't there all that long ago. Trying to keep her sister out of trouble and sorting out what is real and what is not are becoming major distractions for Buffy. It is bad enough that Buffy has one of the world's toughest night jobs - hellmouth cleanup patrol, now she has a nosy sister as well.
Once again, Sunnydale is visited by a new vampire menace, this time from Japan. Yuki Makimura and her companions, a group of vampire monks, are hardly tourists. While the vampire has no qualms about making sashimi out of our favorite slayer, her real agenda is another thing entirely. Yet when Dawn uncovers some clues to the mystery, but Giles goes all mysterious. Stymied by her watcher, Buffy is forced to turn to the [highly] unreliable help of Spike.
Once again, Tom Fassbender and Jim Pascoe have joined to create and interesting plot. Dawn is a welcome addition to the 'literary' Buffy world (I had an irritating younger sister of my own). I am at last getting used to the illustration style of the Dark Horse graphic novels. While the artwork is always of very high quality, I kept wishing the illustrated characters would look exactly as they do in the show. That is an impossible task, of course - just my inner perfectionist coming through. The truth is that Cliff Richards, Joe Pimentel, and Will Conrad have again turned out the spectacular artwork that makes good plot and dialogue into something memorable.
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