I'd have given this four stars if it weren't for the Dawn-and-teddy-bear story. I understand why they included Dawn in these comics, but I'm really not much of a fan. She always distracted from the interesting parts of the story, I thought, and her little sidebar plotline in this collection was no different.

Giles, on the other hand, is the best. He should have his own little sidebar plotline in every collection ever put out. (He didn't get his very own, in this one, but he did get some attention.) In fact, there should be a whole series about Giles, Willow, and Xander.

I digress.

It's cool to go back and read this; I saw all seven seasons and am going through the graphic novels of "season eight" as they come out, and this fills in kind of nicely around all that.