A review by calistareads
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, Volume 3: Guarded by Drew Z. Greenberg, Jane Espenson, Andrew Chambliss, Joss Whedon

4.0

Well, every other volume seems to be good right now. This was a fun romp. I am glad that Kennedy came back and she has started up a security firm for Slayers. She and Buffy work a case.

I really enjoyed the 2nd half of the volume. Billy the Vampire Slayer. Billy is a gay teen living in a small town where he is bullied. It turns out that gay Billy is the first ever male Slayer. I thought that was so very cool. He has a lot to learn still. The 2 issues about him were a lot of fun and there is a love interest in Devon who is going to be Billy's Watcher.

There weren't many of our regular characters in this one, only Buffy and Kennedy. Everyone else is off doing something else. The story was reasonable and I had a lot of fun reading this. I hope the next one will be good too. Maybe, this has turned into Star Trek, the original movies where only the even numbered ones were good. In the Buffy world, only the odd numbered volumes are good. I don't know if it really works that way, but, it's a thought at this moment.