Angel: After the Fall (Spoilers discussed here! BEWARE)
POSTED BY: embers
UPDATED: Thursday, March 20, 2008 05:51
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Today Brian Lynch's 'Angel: After the Fall' came out,
the canon sequel to the TV show, based on Joss' outline....
DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED, WE WANT TO DISCUSS THE COMIC BOOK HERE
(oh, and it kicks ass, so get your copy ASAP and then come and discuss it too!)
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OMG I was unspoiled and I was shocked, amazed, and thrilled to see Wesley! Yay! Wesley!
I couldn't believe it - I am so happy!
And Gun, tragic terrifying Gunn! Wow! Fun!
Sorry about the squealing, but I am thrilled, and excited, I love the art work and I think that Brian has gotten this off to a really exciting start
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must get now...
A man who walks the Earth.
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I wasn't blown away - blown away. Though part of that is because I'm not sure I caught all of what was going on so I'll need to re-read before I pass judgment I suppose. Though I can say right up front that I don't like the way IDW seems to use the same stiff glossy stock for their interiors as their covers. I prefer something more traditionally paperlike for the interiors.
David
'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg
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How's the art- is it as good as Buffy's?
Not a giant Angel fan Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
How's the art- is it as good as Buffy's?
Not a giant Angel fan Chrisisall
Have you looked at any of Brian Lynch's Spike books?
You ARE a Spike fan, right?!
It was Lynch's Spike: Asylum that led Joss to believe that it would be possible to do the continuation of Angel... because Lynch got Spike's voice so completely right, and Franco Urru's art was awesome.
So to get to your question: The artwork is very different from the Buffy artwork, but personally I love it just as much... in fact I love it more for the darker/edgier Angel-verse.
It is really fun to see the fang gang back in such horrible and painful ways.... (okay, I have a twisted sense of fun, sue me).
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Finally got my copy, and I was very pleasantly surprised. I admit, I wasn't expecting much. Even tho it's longer than a normal comic (27 pages by my count, compared to the regular 22), it still seemed like they packed a ton of story into this issue. The art style really seems to fit, too. The characters don't necessarily bear a great resemblance to the actors, but what the heck--at least you can tell who they're supposed to be (Nina's the only one who I needed the text to figure out).
And best of all--no ads!! I hope that's something that they're going to keep doing, and it's not just some special dealio for the first issue...
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IDW always uses heavier paper and no ads...
it is partly why they charge a little more
(they are also smaller and poorer, so they need to charge a little more... when they turn into a bigger publishing company they may be able to bring their per issue down a little)
I agree that it was hard to figure out Nina, but I kind of love that she is around and going through some wolfy confusion because of the Sun/Moon confusion....
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Not bad, though they copied Heroes a little in that we're not seeing what happened just after the end of the last season...
And I have trouble combining the ideas of a wasted LA and Buffy not being there to help out...oh well, they're separate realities, I guess, due to separate companies handling them.
Great art Chrisisall
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And I have trouble combining the ideas of a wasted LA and Buffy not being there to help out...
Well, there was a mention of something about a "barrier", so that could have something to do with it. If Angel and co. could get out and get home, I'm sure they would, so it might be just as impossible for Buffy or anyone to find a way to get in and help them.
And then there's the question of, don't you think a lot of people would notice if LA just suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth? So maybe the Senior Partners worked some kind of glamour that hides what they've done. Maybe Buffy and the rest don't even know that anything's wrong...
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Thanks for the answers Groo, you always come up with the good points.
Awesome art Chrisisall
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