Angel: After the Fall # 1, 2, 3, 4
Writer: Joss Whedon, Brian Lynch; Pencils and Inks: Franco Urru; Colors: Ilaria Traversi; Lettering: Robbie Robbins; Cover: Tony Harris, Franco Urru
IDW
I was pretty uneasy about this title. While Buffy ended on a fairly happy note, Angel ended in total depression and destruction. The character shouldn’t have made it out of the Season 5 apocalyptic battle, but there they were in Angel: The Curse and Angel: Old Friends in 2005. The question always hanging in the air was how they made it out alive.
After the Fall fills in the gap between Season 5 and IDW’s Angel: The Curse. Los Angeles goes to a hell dimension. Sadly, Gunn is a vampire and Wesley is a ghost in servitude to Wolfram & Hart. Since both were obviously dead at the end of Season 5, turning to ghost and vampire were probably the only ways to keep both in the continuing story. But it feels like a cheat.
In fact, the whole series feels like a cheat. I know that there is a financial interest in keeping the story going, and including the original cast, but the Charge of the Light Brigade series finale had a kind of beauty to it that these new stories crap all over. It’s Whedon’s universe, and he can do with it what he wants, but still, it’s disappointing. I’ll keep reading in the hopes that it will all get better, but I don’t have my hopes up much.
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1 Angel: After the Fall # 5 - Review // Apr 4, 2008 at 6:37 am
[...] because it’s Angel, but, sorry guys, I’m just not feeling it. I wrote before how the whole thing feels like a cheat, and this issue doesn’t change things. Hope it gets better, but I won’t hold my [...]