Season Eight Motion Comic is the motion comic series adaptation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight. The nineteen episodes were weekly released from July 2010 to January 2011. It was produced and directed by Jeff Shuter.
Synopsis[]
Proving once and for all that you can't keep a good Slayer down, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic picks up where the smash hit TV show left off! Based on the award-winning Dark Horse comic book series, these eye-popping motion comic adventures breathe new life into the Buffyverse for long-time fans and new "watchers" alike.
The Hellmouth may have been destroyed, but the world still needs saving, and Buffy Summers is back at her butt-kicking, demon-slaying best to do the job. She's relocated her base of operations to a castle in Scotland to lead the Scooby Gang, including hundreds of newly activated Slayers scattered around the world to battle the supernatural forces of evil. But in the wake of Sunnydale's destruction, the U.S. government thinks Buffy and her legions of followers have grown too powerful and are now terrorist threats. Meanwhile, a seemingly unstoppable group of Japanese vampires hatch a nefarious plot, while the biggest, baddest Big Bad of them all, Twilight, is on a mission to destroy every Slayer on Earth![1]
Episodes[]
No. | Image | Title | Release date |
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01 | "The Long Way Home, Part One" | July 19, 2010 | |
Proving once and for all that you can't keep a good Slayer down, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight picks up where the smash hit TV show left off! | |||
02 | "The Long Way Home, Part Two" | July 26, 2010 | |
As Giles, Buffy, and Andrew continue to train neophyte slayers in various locations, teamwork gets encouraged, and Lando Calrissian's fashion sense gets slammed. | |||
03 | "The Long Way Home, Part Three" | August 2, 2010 | |
With Buffy still under a mystical sleeping spell, Ethan Rayne, a chaos-worshiping wannabe sorcerer, visits her dreamspace and helps her to navigate the bizarre terrain. | |||
04 | "The Long Way Home, Part Four" | August 9, 2010 | |
Being held captive, and with her powers being siphoned, Willow is slowly mutilated by the vengeful — and skinless — Warren Mears. | |||
05 | "The Chain" | August 16, 2010 | |
One of Buffy's decoy doubles recalls how she was called upon and trained to be a slayer. The heroic young woman's undercover assignment takes her deep underground, where she leads a stand against Yamanh and his demonic horde. | |||
06 | "No Future for You, Part One" | August 23, 2010 | |
Faith is approached by Giles with a dangerous assignment — to pose as a British aristocrat in order to assassinate a wealthy, rogue slayer under the tutelage of an Irish warlock. | |||
07 | "No Future for You, Part Two" | August 30, 2010 | |
Posing as a viscount's daughter, Faith infiltrates Lady Genevieve's gala and is attacked by Roden's gargoyle security team. Elsewhere, Willow offers to Dawn with her plus-sized problem and is called upon to upgrade the castle's defense system. | |||
08 | "No Future for You, Part Three" | September 6, 2010 | |
As Giles tries hopelessly to contact Faith, Lady Genevieve explains her rationale for wanting to assassinate Buffy. | |||
09 | "No Future for You, Part Four" | September 13, 2010 | |
As Faith and Genevieve battle to the death, Buffy confronts Giles about Faith's assignment. | |||
10 | "Anywhere but Here" | September 20, 2010 | |
After a flight of fantasy, Buffy and Willow enter the demonic lair of Sephrilian, a dangerous realm of unstable reality where the friends' darkest secrets, both past and future, are revealed. | |||
11 | "A Beautiful Sunset" | September 27, 2010 | |
While the rest of the girls party, Buffy and Xander discuss the matter of a rogue slayer. Later, Buffy and Satsu discuss affairs of the heart as they take on a nest of vampires. | |||
12 | "Wolves at the Gate, Part One" | October 4, 2010 | |
Buffy and Satsu's amorous encounter is rudely interrupted when a gang of shapeshifting Japanese vampires storms the castle and steals Buffy's scythe. Later, Xander seeks the help of an old friend. | |||
13 | "Wolves at the Gate, Part Two" | October 11, 2010 | |
Realizing that the Japanese vampires have stolen his secrets, Dracula agrees to help Xander stop them. And, as Buffy's crew prepares to go to war, a Japanese slayer named Aiko tracks the vampires, with disastrous results. | |||
14 | "Wolves at the Gate, Part Three" | October 18, 2010 | |
After a gruesome welcome to Tokyo, Buffy and Willow capture one of the Japanese vampires and learn of a sinister plan to revert all slayers into ordinary humans. | |||
15 | "Wolves at the Gate, Part Four" | October 25, 2010 | |
After the shocking death of one of their own, Buffy and her team take on Toru's army of vampires. And, while Dawn slugs it out with her own mechanized doppelganger, Dracula and Willow team up to stop Toru and his diabolical spell. | |||
16 | "Time of Your Life, Part One" | November 1, 2010 | |
As Buffy and Willow head to New York on a cryptic mission involving Buffy's scythe, Twilight, Warren, and Amy launch a deadly attack on the slayers' castle. | |||
17 | "Time of Your Life, Part Two" | November 8, 2010 | |
Having been transported into the future, Buffy joins forces with Melaka Fray, a fellow-slayer whose twin brother, Harth, is a vampire contemplating an evil plan. | |||
18 | "Time of Your Life, Part Three" | November 15, 2010 | |
While Willow seeks otherworldly help in bringing Buffy back from the future, Xander and Dawn flee deep into the woods, where they encounter a strange race of tree-like forest souls. | |||
19 | "Time of Your Life, Part Four" | November 22, 2010 | |
Xander and Dawn lead an army of wood creatures into battle against Warren and Amy's minions. |
Cast[]
- Kelly Albanese as Buffy Summers and underground decoy
- Natalie Lander as Willow Rosenberg and Violet
- J. Anthony McCarthy as Rupert Giles and Voll
- Julie O'Connor as Dawn Summers and Tink
- Daniel Taylor as Alexander Harris
- Whitney Thompson as Faith Lehane
- Tasso Feldman as Andrew Wells and Ethan Rayne
- Michelle Wong as Melaka Fray, Genevieve Savidge, and Kumiko Ishihara
- Veronica Lauren as Kennedy
- Michanne Quinney as Satsu
- Zach Hanks as Twilight
- Jane Mendez as Leah
- Kristina Klebe as Rowena
- Lois Neville as Rowena, Gia, and Lindsey
- Heather Hemmens as Renee
- Ethan Sawyer as Dracula and Tanaka
- Marcus Ashley as Warren Mears
- Shay Astar as Amy Madison
- Tim Chiou as Toru and Raidon
- Tauvia Dawn as Rona
- Whitney Anderson as Violet
- Chris Mezzolesta as Richard Wilkins
- Treva Tegtmeier as Aluwyn, Robin, and "Blue Woman"
- Jeff Jack as Roden
- Jeff Shuter as Harth Fray
- Mattie Hawkinson as Erin Fray
- Steve Hein as Gunther
- Michael Anthony as Robin Wood
- Megahn Perry as Simone Doffler
- Dan Kirschner as Sephrilian, Yamanh of Hoht, Twilight, assorted demons
- William Knight as Trafalgar
- Eric Nelson as Lorelahn
- Sharon Muthu as Molter
- Peal Ruiz as Butterfield
- Jon Kanak as Mike Billenger
- Mike Connell as Daniel Craig
- Jon Huybrecht as "Field Commander" and "Corpse"
- Carrie LeGrand as Aiko, Beverly, "Frumpy Slayer," "Student"
- Alex Collins as "Lab Tech"
- Gary Clemmens as "CIA Suit"
Behind the scenes[]
Production[]
- Megahn Perry, voice actress for Simone Doffler, was also in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Phases" as Theresa Klusmeyer.
- In the credits, four originally unnamed characters were identified: Gia, Beverly, Lindsey, and Tanaka.
Release[]
- The first motion comic was released on Amazon Video on Demand[2] and iTunes[1] on July 18, 2010, with new motion comics being released every Monday.
- The Region-1 Blu-ray and DVD of the motion comic series was released on January 4, 2011,[3] including a limited edition packaging by Jo Chen and a collectible reprint of Dark Horse Comics' first issue of the series. The Region-2 DVD was released on October 3, 2011.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8 Motion Comic on iTunes." iTunes. Retrieved on October 1, 2019.
- ↑ "Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Motion Comic." Amazon.com. Retrieved on October 1, 2019.
- ↑ "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)." Amazon.com. Retrieved on October 1, 2019.
- ↑ "Buffy [Import anglais]." Amazon.com. Retrieved on October 1, 2019.