I perused all the Willingham Angel comics in the comic book store yesterday and...have to agree the below is a fair assessment of the writing and art.
It's still 1) Written for 13 year olds-- and stupid 13 year olds at that 2) rife with OOC dialog 3) made even more bland by the mediocre artwork.
It feels very much as if it were written for people who are around Connor's age or close to it, and interested in that character or identify strongly with him. Connor is the hero of the story, and at times it feels a bit like his wet-dream come to life. Which, works, I guess. That said - I would not suggest any of the Connor shippers on my flist, of which there are a few, to read this. The writing is fairly juvenile in tone. Set very much to a third grade audience.
Question-- have you read the "Almost Human" series, where Gunn and Illyria go on a road trip of sorts? Now that's a damn fine piece of work, IMO. Great art, dialog spot on, characterization spot on. No problem if I want to accept it as canon.
londonkds said the same thing. Unfortunately, I missed it. Looked for it yesterday, but it was the only one not available. Maybe some day it will come out as a trade. (shrugs).
I think Peter David - wrote that one? As far as I can tell Peter David and Brian Lynch are the only two writers hired by IDW who can handle the Angelverse with any degree of accuracy, wit, or intelligence. Didn't realize it was that hard to write. Apparently is. ;-)
As for Illyria? I can see why you ship her. She was my second favorite thing about S5 and the reason that I was annoyed the show got canceled. I would have been perfectly happy if they killed off Angel, and did a sixth season with just Illyria, Gunn, Spike, and Wes...which I think was the Spike movie.
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Date: 2010-05-02 07:21 pm (UTC)It's still 1) Written for 13 year olds-- and stupid 13 year olds at that 2) rife with OOC dialog 3) made even more bland by the mediocre artwork.
It feels very much as if it were written for people who are around Connor's age or close to it, and interested in that character or identify strongly with him. Connor is the hero of the story,
and at times it feels a bit like his wet-dream come to life.
Which, works, I guess. That said - I would not suggest any of the Connor shippers on my flist, of which there are a few, to read this. The writing is fairly juvenile in tone. Set very much to a third grade audience.
Question-- have you read the "Almost Human" series, where Gunn and Illyria go on a road trip of sorts? Now that's a damn fine piece of work, IMO. Great art, dialog spot on, characterization spot on. No problem if I want to accept it as canon.
Maybe some day it will come out as a trade. (shrugs).
I think Peter David - wrote that one? As far as I can tell Peter David and Brian Lynch are the only two writers hired by IDW who can handle the Angelverse with any degree of accuracy, wit, or intelligence. Didn't realize it was that hard to write. Apparently is. ;-)
As for Illyria? I can see why you ship her. She was my second favorite thing about S5 and the reason that I was annoyed the show got canceled. I would have been perfectly happy if they killed off Angel, and did a sixth season with just Illyria, Gunn, Spike, and Wes...which I think was the Spike movie.