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“Dollhouse” might be best remembered (if at all…) as the unfortunate post-script to Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku’s respective TV careers, but to those of us who stuck with it, it did eventually turn into an interesting and thought-provoking series shortly before it was cancelled. The question, of course, is whether a show that was conceived as a vehicle to showcase Eliza Dushku’s acting talent could be translated to the medium of comics without losing what made it interesting in the first place. Writers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen have opted to set the comic at a point between the season’s chronological ending and its “epitaph” episodes, which were set in a post-apocalyptic future where Dollhouse technology has run amok. At this point, the survivors (including Mag, Felicia Day’s character who stars in both Epitaphs episodes) are on the run, hoping to save other “actuals” like themselves. Admittedly, this setting was the more interesting of the two explored in the show, but it’