Feel pretty much the same way, Moscow, as you know, especially about the Dawn revelation.

I honestly can't understand why anyone should care why she's a giant by this time and I had trouble caring in the first place (and I like Dawn).

I don't know. I guess I'm just glad that if this is what Joss would have done in the show if he'd had the money, I'm glad he never had the money.

'Course, it is a very different medium, but while that might explain the difference in tone - the changing of BtVS from being like a soap opera (Joss's own words) to being more like a James Bond film with vampires and magic - it doesn't explain the emotional discontinuity.

So far, only Willow's revelations about Kennedy in this issue come across as through-story from the show to me, and I have no idea what's up with Buffy.

We'll see next issue, I suppose. Maybe there'll be some payoff.