Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Obsidian Fate’ (1999) (Book review)

After the excellent Golden/Holder “Gatekeeper Trilogy,” I braced myself for a letdown with Diana G. Gallagher’s first entry in the “Buffy” series, “Obsidian Fate” (September 1999). While

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 3: Sons of Entropy’ (1999) (Book review)

Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder’s “The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 3: Sons of Entropy” (May 1999) is so epic that Joyce describes it as “almost an entire month

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 2: Ghost Roads’ (1999) (Book review)

In my review of “Out of the Madhouse,” I noted that it can only take place between “Revelations” and “Lovers Walk,” and that we just

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 1: Out of the Madhouse’ (1999) (Book review)

In their second novel in the adult “Buffy” line, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder continue to go against the conventional wisdom that tie-in novels should

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Return to Chaos’ (1998) (Book review)

In “Return to Chaos” (December 1998), the second novel of the adult “Buffy” series, Craig Shaw Gardner – in his only “Buffy” entry — gets to a

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Child of the Hunt’ (1998) (Book review)

Like all successful SF/fantasy franchises, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” quickly inspired spinoff novels. The first handful were in the young-adult genre, but when it became

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‘Buffy’ goes back to ‘The High School Years’ to hook young readers (Comic book reviews)

After making my list of the top “Buffy” 20 episodes for the 20th anniversary, I had a hankering to go back to the time when

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The chosen 20: The all-time best ‘Buffys’

Today marks the 20th anniversary of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which premiered on March 10, 1997. That sentence is technically incorrect – “Buffy” debuted with a movie

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EW’s 50 Most Powerful Superheroes list has absurd omissions

I asked my friend Jeremy if he had checked out Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Most Powerful Superheroes list in the latest issue and he said he doesn’t “pay

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Why is Katniss Everdeen so reluctant to be a hero? (And why ‘Gotham’ features the rarest of heroes)

When faced with a totalitarian government, institutionalized corruption or a plain ole supervillain, pop culture’s superheroes and revolutionaries are almost always reluctant, and it’s getting

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