millennium May 10, 2015 Share May 10, 2015 (edited) I was underwhelmed. It didn't feel like Angel. If you've already read it, you know that everything goes to Hell. Literally. Due to Angel's actions at the conclusion of "Not Fade Away," The Senior Partners snatch Los Angeles off the face of the map and plunk it down in Hell. Angel befriends the dragon, which he names Cordelia, Wesley returns as a ghost contractually bound to Wolfram and Hart (much like Lila was), Spike, with Illyria, controls his own part of the city, Gunn has become a vampire and Connor runs a safehouse. I thought the art looked hasty, with little effort to reproduce the familiar characters in detail, as though the illustrator was content to leave it to our memories to fill in the rest of the picture. Whedon has deemed the comic canonical, but given the resolution reality gets reset to the last moment of "Not Fade Away" -- in other words, "it was all just a dream" it's a no harm-no foul situation. The comic is said to follow the planned storyline for Season 6, but I just don't see it. I'm not sure it would have been the same show. I didn't find it all that interesting. Anybody else read it? Edited May 10, 2015 by millennium Link to comment
DeathQuaker July 21, 2015 Share July 21, 2015 Season 6 had a lot of rough spots. I am enjoying the Angel and Faith comic a lot. It feels truer to form. Link to comment
Joe Hellandback July 30, 2018 Share July 30, 2018 On 10/05/2015 at 2:22 AM, millennium said: I was underwhelmed. It didn't feel like Angel. If you've already read it, you know that Hide contents everything goes to Hell. Literally. Due to Angel's actions at the conclusion of "Not Fade Away," The Senior Partners snatch Los Angeles off the face of the map and plunk it down in Hell. Angel befriends the dragon, which he names Cordelia, Wesley returns as a ghost contractually bound to Wolfram and Hart (much like Lila was), Spike, with Illyria, controls his own part of the city, Gunn has become a vampire and Connor runs a safehouse. I thought the art looked hasty, with little effort to reproduce the familiar characters in detail, as though the illustrator was content to leave it to our memories to fill in the rest of the picture. Whedon has deemed the comic canonical, but given the resolution Hide contents reality gets reset to the last moment of "Not Fade Away" -- in other words, "it was all just a dream" it's a no harm-no foul situation. The comic is said to follow the planned storyline for Season 6, but I just don't see it. I'm not sure it would have been the same show. I didn't find it all that interesting. Anybody else read it? I thought it was decent enough, some nice touches Spoiler Spike taking over from Hugh Hefner (would love to see Buffy, Dru and Faith as his Girls of the Playvamps mansion) , Lorne the saviour of Silver Lake, a nice tribute to Andy, Groo and his 2 Cordelias. Also loved the cover of Angel as a Blade Runner parody. Link to comment
Joe Hellandback July 30, 2018 Share July 30, 2018 On 21/07/2015 at 9:33 AM, nosleepforme said: I read a couple of issues of season six, but I thought it was too comic-booky and didn't quite feel like the series, therefore I didn't bother. I don't think the show would have continued that way. Hell, even if Joss has repeatedly said that he didn't change the ending of the show after it got cancelled, I even have a hard time seeing season five end the way it did had the show continued. I liked the idea of Hide contents turning Gunn into a vampire and I liked that they brought back so many fan favorites in the comic books - Kate, Gwen, Lilah - but in the end the comics feel hollow. Yeah, Spoiler Gwen finally gets some decent 'screen time', would have liked to have seen even more Lilah. I'd have liked to have seen LA as hell with the various factions fighting it out, loved to have seen more Scoobs to turn up to participate. On 21/07/2015 at 10:35 PM, DeathQuaker said: Season 6 had a lot of rough spots. I am enjoying the Angel and Faith comic a lot. It feels truer to form. The eps with Faith were the best in the series, having her all the time with Angel is a dream come true. Link to comment
millennium July 31, 2018 Author Share July 31, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, Joe Hellandback said: I thought it was decent enough, some nice touches Hide contents Spike taking over from Hugh Hefner (would love to see Buffy, Dru and Faith as his Girls of the Playvamps mansion) , Lorne the saviour of Silver Lake, a nice tribute to Andy, Groo and his 2 Cordelias. Also loved the cover of Angel as a Blade Runner parody. I was recently thinking about my Season 6 set of Angel comic books and wondering if I should throw them up on eBay because they're taking up space. I probably won't read them again. I bought them just to find out where the story went. I had no use for the umpteen "variant" covers. Variant covers always strike me as a shameless bid to extort cash from obsessive collectors. The art isn't nearly good enough for me to justify holding onto them either. In retrospect, I think all Season Six accomplished was to make me sad that the show ended in Season 5. I haven't been able to watch Boreanaz in anything since then. I don't want to commingle the Boreanaz character in "Bones" or "Seal Team" with how I remember Angel in my mind. Whedon may state that Season 6 is "canonical" but it seems meaningless considering the story is never coming back again. Edited July 31, 2018 by millennium Link to comment
Joe Hellandback July 31, 2018 Share July 31, 2018 12 hours ago, millennium said: I was recently thinking about my Season 6 set of Angel comic books and wondering if I should throw them up on eBay because they're taking up space. I probably won't read them again. I bought them just to find out where the story went. I had no use for the umpteen "variant" covers. Variant covers always strike me as a shameless bid to extort cash from obsessive collectors. The art isn't nearly good enough for me to justify holding onto them either. In retrospect, I think all Season Six accomplished was to make me sad that the show ended in Season 5. I haven't been able to watch Boreanaz in anything since then. I don't want to commingle the Boreanaz character in "Bones" or "Seal Team" with how I remember Angel in my mind. Whedon may state that Season 6 is "canonical" but it seems meaningless considering the story is never coming back again. You never know with the reboot? I think this year the comics will actually outdo the series in terms of eps/issues. Link to comment
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