Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5) |  | Authors: Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jim Krueger, Doug Petrie
Creators: Georges Jeanty, Cliff Richards
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
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ISBN: 1595823425
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Publication Date: October 7, 2009
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Buffy's world goes awry when former-classmate-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall lands her own reality TV show, Harmony Bites, bolstering bloodsucking fiends in the mainstream. Humans line up to have their blood consumed, and Slayers, through a series of missteps, misfortunes, and anti-Slayer propaganda driven by the mysterious Twilight, are forced into hiding. In Germany, Faith and Giles discover a town where Slayers retreat from a world that has turned against them, only to find themselves in the arms of something far worse. A rogue-Slayer faction displaces an entire Italian village, living up to their tarnished reputation as power-hungry thieves. And finally, with the help of a would-be demon lover, Dawn addresses her unfaltering insecurities.
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Filler December 7, 2009
Derrick O'Rourke (Dublin, Ireland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This arc felt like a filler to me. The main plotline slowly moves on but everything seems to fall apart far too quickly for the slayers. There are some funny moments in it but there is far too much Andrew in this storyline. At least we know where Giles & Faith are. Otherwise it's an ok book but that's about all it is.
Series slowing down but Vampy Cat rules!! December 2, 2009
S. Penrose (Small Town, OH)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This collection has really proven that this can't possibly be how Joss Whedon saw the next season of the TV show because this is so all-over the place that viewers would have been disappearing super fast. I loved the Harmony Bites idea. Good stuff but threre was no follow through. Faith & Giles together is interesting but once again, not much happened. I hope the next trade amps up the story or I probably will stop reading this. :(
A step down November 7, 2009
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 continues, and sadly in this fifth collected volume of the smash ongoing series finds things taking a bit of a step down for Buffy and her Scoobies. Things start out as the vampiric Harmony manages to become a beloved reality TV host, which leads to a nation-wide love of all things vampire, and hate for all things Slayer-related. After that, Buffy and her crew go into hiding and take on baddies all at once, Giles and Faith take down some themselves, and Buffy saves her sister Dawn. Yeah, Predators and Prey really doesn't offer what we haven't seen before. This may not be so bad, but considering that a majority of writers from the show are featured in Predators and Prey, including Jane Espenson, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Z. Greenberg, and Doug Petrie, most of what you find here is just, well, for lack of a better word, meh. There's some somewhat humerous Harmony-featured shorts to end this TPB, but sadly compared to what came before with Buffy Season 8, Predators and Prey is sadly a step down.
 season 8, vol 5 November 6, 2009
S. Molina (Cow Town, CA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
im just glad they decided to do these books. i still say theres a gap between tvs season 7 finale and these
I think people missed the point... November 2, 2009
V. M. Ranjan (Blacksburg, VA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I actually thought the premise of Harmony getting her own reality-TV show was pretty hilarious. I think, rather than trying to cash in on the whole "vampires integrating into popular culture" thing like the True Blood series, Joss and Crew are generally poking fun at all the Twilight/True Blood fans who have suddenly gone... well.. vampire crazy! Everyone wants their own vampire, and everyone is sooo in love with Vampires that they fail to see that vampires would actually be dangerous. Harmony has always been a huge comic relief for me, she's absolutely silly and fails to feel like a threat, when in truth she totally is (well, okay mostly she's hilarious and ineffectual as a threat). I could totally believe that she took her Angel-certified recommendation, her former ties to W&H and her glowing/whacky personality and went straight to TV execs with her "woe is me! I'm a misunderstood vampire!" angle to cash in. What's even better is that they bring to light the damage that misrepresenting certain groups can do, and how easily people are swayed. I mean, vampires easily get people to turn against the "Slayer Threat" even though the Slayer "Threat" is their only real defense. I think it's more of Joss just poking at current pop-culture and maybe even the current political climate.
As for the rest of installment, I can see where this is setting up the plots for the next story arc, and that's fine. Just remember that exposition and pawn placement is always a little... dry.
Oh, and just for fun, "Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday." <-- Oh how I miss Tuesdays with Buffy <3
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