To live in hell

After the Fall: Angel Season 6
Written by Brian Lynch and plotted by Joss Whedon
Art: Franco Urru

The first thing that came to mind was CROSSOVER!!! Imagine Angel, Spike, and Buffy together again! Unfortunately, Angel is published by IDW while Buffy is published by Dark Horse. I have no idea why Joss allowed this to happen. Anyway, the series is set to be a canonical continuation of the Angel television series, and follows the events of that show's final televised season: which showed Angel’s gang charging towards—oh just all the demons in LA. I hate endings where you don’t know what happened to the heroes you have become so attached to. I filled the void by reading all Angel books that I could get my hands on.

So when Season 6 came out…No need to state the obvious. There are five issues out and available at your friendly comic book shop. If you don’t want to be spoiled leave now and no harm will befall you….

Imagine Los Angeles in HELL. The whole city transported to hell! Wolfram & Hart literally sent the entire city to hell in retaliation to what Angel and his gang dismantled the demon cartel in LA. In Hell, demons gained more power and they divided the city into territories. Angel is in trouble since he got pissed off at a demon and killed him—he sorta killed-off the son of a demon-mafia leader. Angel, on a dragon continues to rescue citizens from the destruction and sends them to Connor, Gwen, and Nina for sanctuary. Meanwhile, the ghost of Wesley is now an incorporeal representative of Wolfram & Hart – since the contract with W&H extends after death, and Gunn has been turned into a vampire—how ironic, no?

Spike has a harem of humans and demons and he’s with Illyria whose powers have gone bonkers – she’s time jumping as n the series. Spike and Angel fight of course. After a series of surprising reveals they spring the biggest… Angel got wounded during the fight and he is not healing fast because he is human. THEN I HAD TO WAIT A MONTH TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!

The demons will keep on killing humans to avenge the demon that Angel killed and to stop this Angel dared ALL the demon lords of the city to send their champions against him at the same time. . The battle begins with Angel and all his friends at his side—including Groosalugg, Conner, Gwen, and Nina thanks to Lorne's last minute rousing (By the way, Lorne controls one city district where everything’s sunny and rosy and happy!). In the meantime, Gunn and his vampire gang demolished the W&H building. Wesley was in a “meeting” with his W&H bosses and when he arrived Spike said that Angel didn’t tell him that Wesley would be there. Enter Illyria… she saw Wesley and she transformed into Fred! NOW THEY WILL MAKE ME WAIT FOR THREE MONTHS!

Next month they will be publishing a three-issue arc about “The First Night” – focusing on what happened exactly after season 5 ended. I am of course very interested in knowing what happened but my God, why do creators have to make me wait after how issue 5 ended! Lynch’s story-telling and pacing is excellent. The art—ummm, I like the art of Buffy Season 8 better. But the cliff-hangers are a bitch.

Divide and Conquer

Marvel's Secret Invasion will be out next week. The build-up towards the event has been uneven - there are some good issues on both New and Mighty Avengers but nothing mind blowing or exceptional. Bendis and other writers have at least created an atmosphere of paranoia among the superheroes. How can you win when you can't organize your ranks?

I still BELIEVE

July 25...



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Monsterism

Prone to shifting shape still - - - or maybe not, I'm a little fond of this one already - - -but this draft's as spot-on a sum-up as you'll get.






Match 25's the Tuesday after Easter,people. And you all will be there.

Free food, free beer, free art and the jams will run long and sweet and knock your socks off. What's your excuse?

More later.

Colonial 1

The Luxury Liner, Intersun, was converted to the President of the Colonies' personal carrier after the second Cyclon attack. It became Baltar's harem in Caprica 2 until Roslin claimed it back. Thor and I found a Titanium die-cast 3-inch replica in Toys 'R Us. Dodo, meron ka rin!

Watching out for the Watchmen

The first pictures from the movie are out! Cool, no?

Silk Spectre

Ozymandias

Nite-Owl

The Comedian

And my favorite, Rorschach

Cable Is Wireless

This time tomorrow, The Wire stops being the Best Show on TV.

Series finale is airing in a bit.




And revisiting the last four seasons these past few weeks has made me even more of a fan, if that's possible.

Best Show on TV, indeed.

And better than what? You name it - - - X Files. Lost. Galactica. Dr.Who. Miami Vice. The Prisoner. Six Feet Under. The Shield. Deadwood. The Sopranos. Star Trek. Walker Texas Ranger. Jojo A All The Way. And some days, sex.

Two words: Omar rocks.

Push and Pull

PULLED

ECHO #1, Terry Moore Strangers in Paradise is one of the absolutes of comic book history and quite possibly the best of everything that’s ever been written about love. Sonnets included. Most people just don’t know it yet. And it is mind-boggling how it all came down to one creator—the lyric, the art, the painful and joyful dissection of longing: Terry Moore. So, Echo #1. It’s different and it is good. It reads like a superhero book, a down and out almost divorcee accidentally gets rained on by putty pellets, a result of a government weapon experiment gone menacing. Details are planted and I’m beginning to like Julie already. Definitely on board.****

JUSTICE LEAGUE THE NEW FRONTIER CLASSIFIED #1, Darwyn Cooke Trinity origin! Titans together! And Wonder Woman’s breasts on fire! It’s predictably good all around. What’s surprising though is the Black Canary and Wonder Woman team-up that delivers the funny. It’s not a necessary read but when did we care about necessary, right?****

TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE #3, Amy Wolfram, Karl Kerschl, Serge Lapointe, and Steph Peru Got on board this title mainly for the art—rest in peace, Mr. Peru—and as always, it’s worth the cover price. But it’s turning out to be as fun as the cartoon with subtle characterizations that work. Batman and Robin’s relationship was succinctly defined in one panel, and that’s quite an achievement. ****

PUSHED (Spoilers!)

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON EIGHT #12, Drew Goddard and Georges Jeanty What the fuck? Drew Goddard, with Jane Esponson, wrote Conversations with Dead People, one the best Buffy episodes in its 7-year run. It’s purely a character piece with a few genuinely frightening moments so I was looking forward to his arc on this title. While the writing is funny, with a few well-planted surprises, the biggest surprise was totally, glaringly, out of character. Okay. I’m calm. When you get Buffy to sleep with another woman, that’s just. Grr. Not calm. See if it were Captain Janeway, I wouldn’t be surprised because somehow, flirting has been implied with Seven of Nine. But with Buffy, zero. Maybe it’s a dream sequence, just like Xander said. Will get back on this when the arc finishes, but for now, it’s disgruntled much. **