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| Fray | 
 enlarge | Author: Joss Whedon
Publisher: Dark Horse
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $9.75
You Save: $10.20 (51%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 18120
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1569717516
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781569717516
ASIN: 1569717516
Publication Date: December 9, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Well, still better than Season 7... June 2, 2008
Certainly better than "Buffy: Season 7", Fray captures some of the goofy spirit that made the television show so enjoyable for so long. However, despite Whedon's best efforts (or maybe because of them), it still feels like a toothless attempt at TV series.
There are no emotional connections deep enough to surprise or shock the reader, although that doesn't stop Whedon from 'shocking' revelations at every turn.
The art is better than average, and supports the gimmicky future that Whedon has built.
Still, a mildy entertaining (if self-indulgent) contribution to the Buffy mythos, if not to the comic book industry as a whole.
 Fantastic twist on the Slayer verse March 13, 2008
A fun read. Good storytelling and great artwork. Fray is not Buffy. She is a street rat and a thief, and very spunky. Worth reading!!! ~~~Liandre
 Fray is very Joss Whedon November 29, 2007
Which means snappy dialogue, great action scenes and interesting plot. The art is excellent, and there's even a giant dinosaur in there somewhere! It's very different from Buffy, Fray is more like the anti-buffy; a thief('grabber), working FOR the mutated bad guys and running from the cops. Oh, and she's a brunette. Highly recommended, especially if you're a Buffy fan.
Fray the Vampire Slayer September 20, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have officially been converted. I can now say that I'm a Joss Whedon fan. I never watched his previous vampire sagas, Buffy and Angel, however, I did catch his excellent series Firefly, his sci-fi series which was more up my alley.
Fray is also a futuristic tale, taking place 200 years into the future of the Buffy universe. It has been a very long time since the last slayer, and the time has come when one has to be called upon. Enter Melaka Fray, a thief with a complicated history. While she's a crook her older sister, Erin, is a police sergeant. To top it off, four years ago her twin brother Harth was killed by a vampire when he was helping her steal and she has never forgiven herself for it. A demon named Urkonn finds Mel and reveals to her that it's her destiny to become a slayer.
That is the set up, and the pay off is quite enjoyable. The story moves along at such a rapid pace that it was impossible for me to get bored. Whedon's writing is very cinematic with plenty of conflict, twists, and surprises. We're introduced to Mel plummeting from a skyscraper and hitting every flying car she can on the way to break her fall. There's a lot of action in every chapter, but plenty of humor, drama and witty dialog in between to balance it out and keep me satisfied.
The artwork by Karl Moline works really well. I had never seen anything he worked on prior to this. I always took the time to appreciate the landscapes of this alternate future, and he's just as adept at illustrating a good fight scene as he is at getting across a character's emotions through facial expressions and body language. Inker Andy Owens, does well and the colors are provided by Dave Stewart whose work I'm very familiar with who is joined by Michelle Madsen here.
A very enjoyable read all the way through. And if you need proof that you don't have to be a Buffy fan prior to reading this to appreciate it, then consider this it. Bring on the sequel!
Graphic SF Reader September 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a decent story, but nothing that exciting. Melaka Fray is a cross between Dark Angel, Faith and Tank Girl, if you want a comparison.
In the future, there are plenty of mutants, so vampires go less remarked on than they would if they wandered around in the current day.
She has no Watcher, except for a demon that turns up to tell her a few things. Apparently being born with a twin brother has done a few odd things.
Her sister is a cop, which also gives her grief, and the vampires are growing in nmumbers and organising.
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