okay, can we talk? i'm not happy with this whole team. 1st volume of the season was excellent, but since then they're just drudging their way through this storyline. nothing wrong with the storyline in itself, but the execution leaves much to be desired. i mean here's Fred, with Illyria interiorized, and the recurring slayer/magician Nadira is dynamic in action, and now ta-da here comes Drusilla. what could possibly be amiss with that, right? except, most panels i can't tell Faith from Fred (or even Illyria!), the way they're drawn, and the interchangeable dialogue doesn't help much with that either. the action's done fine, lots of nice panels to that, but the whole canvas reads pedestrian, because at baseline Gischler seems to have no feel for the characters, let alone their voices. the one bright spot here is Scott Fischer's chapter break art - i actually exclaimed aloud when his first page drew her hand in the air, because there she was, splendidly, impossibly Drusilla. he says he drew her body language off looking at DVDs: perhaps the writer and panel artists should also consider taking a look at those over his shoulder. cause right now it seems to be, like, just a job. and that's a shame. ( )