Fray, Future Slayer

POSTED BY: Quicksand
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 4, 2004 01:42
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QUICKSAND

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 1:13 AM

So I had to order the complete graphic novel from my local bookstore.

HOLY FREAKIN' SWEEET!!!! It's pure Joss, I loved this thing. Tough talk, unique slang, and great characters. And hey, that axe looks familiar....

Anyone else manage to pick this title up? If not, I highly recommend it, at least as a way to tide you over until 4.22.05 ... read slow.

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TIGER

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 1:21 AM

Actually, I just ordered it and I'm waiting for delivery as we speak. I'm glad to hear it will be worth the wait, since I too wanted some Joss to tide me over until April.

EMBERS

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 1:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Quicksand:

And hey, that axe looks familiar....

Anyone else pick this up?

Yeah, I bought the Fray comics as they originally came out...and I loved seeing the Slayers' Scythe before Buffy ever got her hands on it...

Someday Joss will have to tell the interveening story...
about how all the many slayers around the world died off without replacements,
and how the knowledge of the Watchers' Council was kept in a special library even tho there were no Watchers left....

Joss has a lot of work to fill in all the gaps!

QUICKSAND

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 1:24 AM

I like the work my brain does to fill in the gaps, better.. I don't want to spoil it for folks like the one guy above, who haven't read it.

But I'd like to think, yeah, those loose ends REALLY could have been tied up during a 6th season of 'Angel.'

Muah-hah.

NESS

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 1:34 AM

Yeah, Fray is amazing. At least you don't have to wait, like a year, between some of the parts. And that was the cool thing. Even if some of the parts were late because Joss was so busy, people were still interested in the story and patiently waited.

When I saw Fray's scythe on screen for the first time, I think I shrieked. It was a great reference for the comic book fans, but it also helped to fill in the blanks as to where the scythe came from. And yes, it's a scythe, not an axe as so many Buffy fans insisted on calling it.

One thing to look out for: the use of "rutting". It was first used in Fray, not Firefly.

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing." - Zoe

CREVANREAVER

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 1:42 AM

Here is a massive spoiler filled summary of the entire Melaka Fray storyline!

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In the beginning, there were demons. They ruled this dimension as they did so many others. Eventually, as mortal animals evolved under protection of certain mages and loranities, the demons left. The Demons, most of them found more hospitable dimensions and left Earth to the mortals, for the most part. Some remained, hidden away. Some bred within the human community, their power weakened. Throughout generations, some assimilated. And some infected humans. It is not know when they first arrived, but the vampires were a plague. The elders of several villages met, calling for action. They invoked the strongest and most dangerous magicks they could summon, to create a power, a power that could fight the vampires. A power that lived in the body of a girl. The first Slayer was born. She fought, and died, and was succeeded by another, and another. Throughout time, always one. Always a woman. A warrior. They were trained, sought out and guided by Watchers, descendants of the shamans
who created the first Slayer.

Then, in the twenty-first century there was a battle. A Slayer, possibly with some mystical allies faced an apocalyptic army of demons. And when it was done, they were all gone. All demons, all magicks, banished from this dimension. It is not known if the Slayer lived, but the demons being gone, she was the last to be called. The line did continue, there were girls with the power, but they were never called, never trained. The Council of Watchers fell to ruin, held together only by fanatics and fools. Those that believed the demons would return. Centuries of useless, obsessive waiting. Makes a human go insane.

Two hundred years had passed, and no one had been called to duty as a slayer. But then She was discovered. Melaka Fray. Both the ancient ones and the Watchers council had found her. The ancient ones knowing that the watchers had gone insane, felt they had to prevent Melaka's watcher from meeting up with her, for fear that she would get hurt. The ancient ones sent one of the only remaining demons, Urkonn to find her and stop the cycle that the watchers planned to start anew.

Meanwhile Melaka Fray, a professional "grabber" for the underworld of Haddyn, specifically Gunther the mutant fish, had just done her latest job, robbing an ancient amulet from the wall safe of a senator. Fray managed to dismantle the tracking monitors, but not without being spotted by the underworld boss, Ruebrin's "boys". The battle ensued leading Fray to jump off the roof, but managed to break her fall by landing on a flying car (ala Fifth element). Fray then continued her battle with the mercenaries on the ground and defeated them, warning what would happen if she crossed paths with them again.

Fray then joined up with Gunther, a person who was mutated either by the sun's radiation or by his parents, he ended up turning into a man-fish, who has been living in his headquarters in a gigantic fish-tank for some time now. Melaka is his main girl for getting the stuff he needs, and then he fences it and takes care of the business end. Gunther is known as the main underworld scourge of the West side of Haddyn (the futuristic world of Manhattan perhaps).

After leaving Gunther to return home, she was stopped dead in her tracks by the mysterious lurks. The lurks are diseased creatures of the night, who are a mystery and an unknown species to mankind. She's handled all sorts of trouble, but when it comes to lurks she freezes up, not knowing what to do, ever since that fateful day, when she went up against a lurk several years ago. Luckily, Fray was saved by a police officer, Erin Fray, Melaka's older sister, who scares off the lurks with her police car. Erin reveals that she's investigating a robbery and believes that Melaka had something to do with it. Melaka denied having any connections, and told Erin she didn't need someone looking over her. That she could take care of herself. Erin reminded her what happened the last time she