Buffy The Vampire Slayer

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home," by Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse Books, $15.95).

C’mon, Buffy fans, quit complaining about how life lost all meaning when Buffy and company went off the air. You now have the next best thing to a Buffy movie — it’s called Season 8 in comic book form. The best news is that it’s just as fun, addictive and clever as one of this decade’sbest TV shows. Hats off to Whedon; the guy’s a genius.