John’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Season 4 flashback review, johnvhansen.com, Oct. 21, 2012 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Season 4 (1999-2000, WB), episodes 1-10 – “Buffy’s” fourth season finds Slayer Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), wicca Willow […]
John’s “Angel” Season 1 flashback review, johnvhansen.com, Dec. 22, 2011 “Angel” Season 1 (1999-2000, WB), episodes 1-10 – In the “Buffy” spinoff, Angel (David Boreanaz) sets up a crime-fighting agency in Los Angeles, assisted by […]
John’s “Angel” Season 2 flashback review, johnvhansen.com, Jan. 17, 2012 John’s “Buffy” Season 5/ “Angel” Season 2 review, NDSU Spectrum, Jan. 26, 2001
John’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Season 5 flashback review, johnvhansen.com, Dec. 4, 2012 NDSU Spectrum: TV review ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ start down the dark path By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 26, 2001 “Buffy” has bounced back […]
Elisabeth Massie connects on some things and misses on others in her first and only entry in the “Buffy” young-adult line, “Power of Persuasion” (October 1999). When she lets the dialog flow naturally, we get […]
I’ll have good things to write about Mel Odom’s Buffyverse work when I get to the “Angel” novels, but he makes an inauspicious debut with the young-adult entry “Unnatural Selection” (June 1999). It’s somewhat of […]
After the “Buffy” novels split into adult and young-adult lines in late 1998, “Visitors” (April 1999) relaunched the YA line. At 163 pages, and without a detailed ancient history for the villain, it sets the […]
Although “Blooded” (August 1998) is the fourth original young-adult “Buffy” novel, it’s possibly the book that inspired the publisher, Pocket Books, to split the title into adult and young-adult books after this point. Christopher Golden […]
Arthur Byron Cover’s “Night of the Living Rerun” (March 1998), the third original novel in the young-adult line, anticipates future episodes like “I Only Have Eyes for You” (2.19) and “Restless” (4.22), while also calling […]
Written by John Vornholt with only Season 1 to draw from, “Coyote Moon” (January 1998) – the second young-adult novel – is a time capsule of that period before Joss Whedon and his writing team realized they […]