Retreat (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Retreat (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) "Retreat" is the sixth story arc of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight" series of comic books, based upon the television series of the same name, and is written by television screenwriter Jane Espenson. The story returns the action to the central plot of vampire Slayer Buffy Summers and her friends in the fight against the masked person Twilight, alongside his followers Amy Madison and Warren Mears. This story arc features the character of Oz, a werewolf who is Buffy's schoolfriend and Willow Rosenberg's ex-boyfriend, who last appeared canonically in the television series' fourth
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 4) and Alyson Hannigan as nervous witch Willow—proving to be wonderfully expressive silent comedians." In the "New York Daily News", David Bianculli states that the episode is "a true tour de force, and another inventive triumph for this vastly underrated series." Robert Hanks from "The Independent" in the UK writes that ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer", in most weeks the funniest and cleverest programme on TV, reached new heights" with "Hush". Noel Murray in The A.V. Club calls it an "episode unlike any other, with a lusher score and some of the most genuinely disturbing imagery I’ve yet seen on "Buffy"." The