Fans of the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer show were crushed when the series was canceled after the seventh season. Joss Whedon, the series' creator and writer of a number of popular comic books, decided that he would move on with the story by presenting an eighth season in a graphic novel format. This is the second volume of the series, which presents what would be considered a second episode.

Fans will be thrilled to see that the rebellious slayer Faith comes to the fore in this tale when she is contacted by Giles in order to take out another slayer that has turned bad. Giles has promised to give Faith a whole new identity in order to avoid the authorities in their search to bring her in for all of her past crimes. The hope is to protect Buffy from a slayer of lower British nobility who seems to have come under the sway of a wizard with a dark outlook on the slayers.

It is clear that the two of them are hoping to take over the new slayers, forming an empire of superwomen to rule the world. To give you an idea of the evil of these to, you should know that they bring in other slayers for the good lady to hunt down and kill.

Faith finds comfort in her acceptance with the new slayer since she has always felt overshadowed by Buffy and mistreated by the whole Scooby gang.

B-stories include Willow sorting through some decisions Buffy has made in the previous episode that make her question the slayers' actions and Dawn coming to terms with growing up both into adulthood and her recent curse of giantism.

Like the television show, the graphic novel does a great job of exploring the characters and questioning the real definitions of good and evil. The illustrations do a great job of capturing the appearances of familiar charactrs.