Fray is a futuristic companion to Buffy the Vampire Slayer written by Joss Whedon in graphic novel form, which should be awesome, right? While I mostly enjoyed the experience of reading it, I was left feeling unsatisfied. Melaka Fray spends her days swiping artifacts for a Grindylow dealer in exchange for chump change. She's tough--you know this because her hair is dyed blue-to-pink--and occasionally has run-ins with her cop sister.* Life in her trodden-down city is getting out of hand, but what else is new? A demon named Urkonn somewhat aggressively approaches her to tell her that she's the Slayer and will vanquish "lurks." She doesn't have the regular Slayer dreams, which is a bit of a snag. Mel doesn't care, but it doesn't take much for her to come around. (Seriously, not much at all. She wasn't invested until she was and the flip didn't make much sense.) Some of the characters are memorable, but the addition of yet another whiny white boy vampire as the baddie was too much. Ultimately, there just wasn't enough at stake.** 
 (I did start with a somewhat sour taste in my mouth. Joss wrote a forward where he talked about how cool it was that Fray wasn't your typical objectified female comic character. It felt a bit like Sherlock mansplaining to a room of Victorian feminists about why they need feminism. And then I found that the comic was still plenty objectifying to Fray. Could have been worse; could have been way better.) 
 *Would watch a whole series about the cop sister, who was the best part of this. 
 **See what I did there?