This was a fantastic collection. I particularly liked the older stories at the beginning but they were all good. I even found, on a second reading, that I enjoyed the Shadow Puppets entry. Perhaps having a little more time with the character, chronologically, made it work better for me. Oddly, I thought that reading the Asylum story would help fill in some much needed gaps and help me understand these characters that I've met in other stories a bit better. I thought the story was great but I was surprised at how little information was provided about those characters and how, frankly, uninteresting they were in that original story. Any time you can give me Spike and company through the ages I'm happy and I thought the Dracula story was done really, really well. O Spike, I'd been lost without you. I devoured this appropriately thick book of your adventures during off hours at the motel on Wed. The whole Buffyverse would be nothing but a black hole without you, and to have MORE of you, canonical but beyond the TV show, made my heart pitter fucking patter. Esp. the long bit in the middle, Spike Vs. Dracula, b/c I have a soft spot for the Buffyverse's Vlad Tepes as well. And besides, it showed you in little clips from 1898 to 2003, always in high and hip contemporary style, whether you were living the "dolce unvita" in postwar Italy in 1959 with gorgeous shades and glossed back hair, or you in 1934 in a loud but awesome LA suit taking Dru to a live charityu performance of Bela Lugosi's Dracula. And your dialogue...oh, god your dialogue. Enough raving from me. Let's just say I love the shit out of you and be done with it.
Do You like book Spike Omnibus (2009)?
two last stories, "asylum", and "shadow puppets", are somehow the best in the series
—Jaz
Drawings and many of the storylines were awful.
—Jessica
favorite character of all time!I loved this!
—Ashleenie
