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In other news...IDW - which has been doing the Angelverse comics, is actually being a bit more innovative than Dark Horse. Bill Willingham is taking over the Angel comic latter this year and guess what? Angel is leaving his own comic, it's being taken over by Connor, with Angel as a recurring character. In short, Connor is going to be the main character in the Angel comics. Before Connor takes front and center, we had an issue centered on Gunn, and a mini-series entitled Angel Only Human - about Gunn and Illyria taking a road trip together.
After that we get the two part Drusilla After The Fall comics written by Juliet Landau,
Brian Lynch, and art by Franc Urru with Juliet Landau's driving it so to speak. This is a story developed by Juliet and what Juliet thinks Dru was doing all this time. And then, we get a two part comic by Brian Lynch and Frank Urru - about Spike and Angel infilterating the San Diego Comic Con to see the film version of their experiences in Angel After the Fall - entitled Last Angel in Hell - starring Nicolas Cage as Angel and some female actress as Spike.
Then finally in December, in the Angel Annual, we get the movie Last Angel in Hell in comic form.
Buffy meanwhile just continues the series of Buffy S8 except in comic form.
Anyhow - Connor fans on my flist take note - the character is about to get his own comic series as a demon fighter, even if it is still named Angel. (I'm guessing that IDW wasn't that thrilled with Kelly Armstrong's take on the series, since they seem to be going in a completely different direction. Can't say I blame them, I found the Armstrong series unreadable.)
Dru fans? Dru gets a two-parter, and it has been strongly indicated that she will continue to make appearances in the comics. (About Bloody time!)
And Spike fans? Lynch is coming back in 2010 with a full-fledged Spike Aftermath comic, where Spike is the lead. YAY! (I love Lynch's take on the character. )
Is this canon? Hell no. I don't really consider any of the comics canon - in that they are a realistic continuation of the story we saw on tv, no matter what the writers/editors want us to believe. Even if Whedon wrote them all, I wouldn't think that. The Buffy ones potentially come closest - but we are still missing vital collaborators and those are the actors.( Read more... )
I enjoy the comics, which have been bloody brilliant in places, but I don't see them as being a true continuation of the tv series. I do think that Whedon sees them in that way, so I'm somewhat critical of the laspes in continuity - such as Warren's thread, which pushes my suspension of disbelief a bit far. ( Read more... )
I miss the tv shows sometimes, much shorter wait between episodes, granted we'd have three long months between seasons, but that's not as bad as just one episode a month. Makes me wonder if the folks waiting for the trade paperbacks might not have the right idea.
In other news...IDW - which has been doing the Angelverse comics, is actually being a bit more innovative than Dark Horse. Bill Willingham is taking over the Angel comic latter this year and guess what? Angel is leaving his own comic, it's being taken over by Connor, with Angel as a recurring character. In short, Connor is going to be the main character in the Angel comics. Before Connor takes front and center, we had an issue centered on Gunn, and a mini-series entitled Angel Only Human - about Gunn and Illyria taking a road trip together.
After that we get the two part Drusilla After The Fall comics written by Juliet Landau,
Brian Lynch, and art by Franc Urru with Juliet Landau's driving it so to speak. This is a story developed by Juliet and what Juliet thinks Dru was doing all this time. And then, we get a two part comic by Brian Lynch and Frank Urru - about Spike and Angel infilterating the San Diego Comic Con to see the film version of their experiences in Angel After the Fall - entitled Last Angel in Hell - starring Nicolas Cage as Angel and some female actress as Spike.
Then finally in December, in the Angel Annual, we get the movie Last Angel in Hell in comic form.
Buffy meanwhile just continues the series of Buffy S8 except in comic form.
Anyhow - Connor fans on my flist take note - the character is about to get his own comic series as a demon fighter, even if it is still named Angel. (I'm guessing that IDW wasn't that thrilled with Kelly Armstrong's take on the series, since they seem to be going in a completely different direction. Can't say I blame them, I found the Armstrong series unreadable.)
Dru fans? Dru gets a two-parter, and it has been strongly indicated that she will continue to make appearances in the comics. (About Bloody time!)
And Spike fans? Lynch is coming back in 2010 with a full-fledged Spike Aftermath comic, where Spike is the lead. YAY! (I love Lynch's take on the character. )
Is this canon? Hell no. I don't really consider any of the comics canon - in that they are a realistic continuation of the story we saw on tv, no matter what the writers/editors want us to believe. Even if Whedon wrote them all, I wouldn't think that. The Buffy ones potentially come closest - but we are still missing vital collaborators and those are the actors.( Read more... )
I enjoy the comics, which have been bloody brilliant in places, but I don't see them as being a true continuation of the tv series. I do think that Whedon sees them in that way, so I'm somewhat critical of the laspes in continuity - such as Warren's thread, which pushes my suspension of disbelief a bit far. ( Read more... )
I miss the tv shows sometimes, much shorter wait between episodes, granted we'd have three long months between seasons, but that's not as bad as just one episode a month. Makes me wonder if the folks waiting for the trade paperbacks might not have the right idea.