Ah this entry was quite good. So far, the whole season has either been spot-on fantastic or mediocre on all levels. Fortunately, this one was a keeper. It started out with Spike being a wanker like usual, but the speed with which things started happening started moving my blood. Some of it even staying in my body, which is more than could be said about those poor wolfram & hart guys. Hooray for the last hurrah. ( )

this was excellent, i thought. Spike and Dru are both well written, and it's nicely played, as Spike claims a starring role for himself that turns out to be a lot more bleeding responsibility than he imagined. Dru is also well-done, which doesn't happen often. set in between IDW's A6 and Dark Horse's B8, canonical, and intended as a free-standing series bridging the two seasons, this series is now more or less in limbo, i guess, what with the licence reverting to Dark Horse, who have now greenlighted a canonical B9. but it's too bad, this series had real possibilities. Volume 2 is scheduled to appear end of August 2011, so we'll get that at least. ( )