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A spinoff — if not a spiritual successor — to the cult hit 90s series “Hitman,” “All-Star Section Eight” #1 brings Garth Ennis and John McCrea back to the DC Universe. A purposely gross and entertaining attack on the very idea of returning to a long-dormant concept, Ennis’ script is the funniest he’s been in ages and McCrea packs every panel with hilarious details, both disgusting and subtle. The book doesn’t really go anywhere and readers shouldn’t expect a big-time action plot, but rather a send-up of superheroes via the dredges of the community. Ennis aims to deconstruct scenes and ideas rather than whole stories, as the plot of the issue itself is paper-thin. The beats of the issue allow the writer to attack the ronin-like quality of lone hero tales like “Old Man Logan” as the story begins in flashback, giving Six-Pack — the leader — his only capable hero moment, itself a possible distortion of fact from the character’s vantage point. Much of the story, in fact, comes from Pack’s

So, this is it, right? Well, not entirely. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine” will happen before too long, so this isn’t the end of the story, but it’s the end of the “season” and as such, it’s time for pieces of story to start wrapping up. Fortunately for all of us, if there’s one kind of story Joss Whedon was particularly good at on the original show, it was the epilogue to a season. With the climax hitting in the previous issue, here we get to see Buffy and company start picking up the pieces of everything that’s broken. And of course, that means it’s time for some recriminations, second-guessing, and glances ahead on what’s to come. This isn’t the first time that Buffy’s big victory was at least in part a mistake (Angel getting dragged to Hell at the end of Season Two is a popular example), and Whedon does a nice job of exploring the self-doubt and agony that Buffy’s going through as she once more tries to figure out if she did the right thing. Finding out how the destructio

Oh, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight,” you had such promise early on. Well, to be fair, it’s not like the comic has crashed and burned hideously. (Well, all right, it briefly did but that was back in April for one issue.) But rather, it was such a strong comic for its first few storylines, and now? Uneven is probably the best word to describe it. It doesn’t help that Joss Whedon has decided to cram every single character he can into the comic for the final storyline of the “Season Eight” series. I somehow doubt that after the Master appeared in the previous issue’s cliffhanger that there were many readers jumping up and down and cheering for his return (with only Glory or the Anointed One possibly being less popular big villains), but in an already jam-packed story he’s just one more character added in. What’s that? We need Spike piloting a Victorian steampunk airship crewed by massive insects? Sure, throw that in too, what’s one more random character addition? Even less appea

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