Comic Blast from the (Recent) Past: Fray

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's According to Adam

Every once in awhile I browse eBay for various Whedon-verse related stuff I don't own yet, and for some reason, last week I had the urge to look for the "Fray" comics. Not the trade paperback (still easily found in pretty much any major book store) but the actual issues themselves.

So I was thrilled when I came across a seller offering the entire run, split up into two lots, for $3.99 per lot. I ended up getting all eight issues for less than $20 after shipping. 

Now, I've already read the entire series (multiple times), but there's something to be said about having the actual individual issues themselves. Anyone can waltz into Borders or Barnes and Noble or some other huge retailer and buy a trade paperback, but the real fans go to their local comic shops (or, in this specific case, eBay) week after week and chip away at stories $2.99 to $3.99 at a time. And 20, 30, even 50 years from now, no one's going to be paying a million dollars for a trade paperback, but as we've seen in recent weeks, a single issue can in fact fetch that much money.

As for why I was in a "Fray" mood? Well, it's just an incredibly cool story, about a slayer in a future after demons have pretty much left the Earth. I wasn't a Buffy fan or a comic fan back when the issues originally came out in 2002 (and 2003), so this wasn't on my radar until about 2006, but the story is much more sci-fi than anything that we saw during the seven seasons of "Buffy". 

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