Omnibus 4 contains one long story arc followed by a bunch of shorts. In the longer story, the vampire Selke gets a plastic surgeon to develop a super-blood to improve the strength of her vampire minions. Her vanity and wit reminded me of Glory. The artwork and dialogue here are very well done.
The shorts are more hit and miss, with various artists and their takes on the Buffyverse, but the stories are all pretty enjoyable. There is one flashback tale regarding Angel's vampire birth that's pretty contradictory to canon, and another called "mall rats" that was very cartoony but thankfully brief. The best of the shorts, though, also involves some flashbacks when an old friend of Angelus returns along with an old enemy, something called the Hollower which feeds on the demons inside vampires. That was a truly marvelous tale. ( )

Reading this Omnibus was a lot more interesting in the sense that having a large number of stories around one specific villain allowed us more time to hang out with the gang and see how they go up against a returning villain not destined to become a friend :)

The writers were beginning to explore all the characters beyond was was known about them (at the time, season 3) which kept them fresh while tying them in closer to the series. ( )

artwork was good, but not my favorite set of stories. ( )

this would probably be great if you don't have the comic collection (comic collections) but otherwise it just duplicates what you have, (it promises one new story but didn't delever. I do love the buffy comics though, as i do all things Buffy (i am a Buffanatic) and others might not buy into my obsession. If you're not obsessed but are interested this would be a good intro. ( )

Omnibus, volume 4 (O4) is the best of the series so far. The writing is much close to the quality I came to expect from the series, partly due to the inclusion of the 19-issue, 200-page “Bad Bood” by Andi Watson, who has written the scripts for several graphic novels in the Buffyverse.

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