Yes, exactly!

And I have recently been thinking that maybe the fault isn't completely with me, and my lack of ability to follow the storyline without stormwreath's explanations. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't just my lack of familiarity with modern graphic novel style (I did read some comic books when I was a kid *cough Archie and Friends cough*, but they were essentially printed cartoons), because I had no trouble at all following Asylum. Storm suggested that I concentrate on the clothes in order to recognize the characters, but with the exception of really stand out clothes (such as Willow's 'Elmo' sweater, Tara's 'innards' shirt, Buffy's 'Surburban Mom' outfit in LW, and 'flood pants' in Into the Woods, and, of course Angelus' leather pants, because who wouldn't fixate on them?) I tend to look at faces, not clothes. The fact that there seems to be no continuity in the look of the faces in the comics really adds to my inabiity to follow the plot - which seems to move like molasses in January in the first place.