My OperaAngel: After the Fall - Chapter Three
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:01:49 PM
Or is it just the second part of Chapter Two? There was no "Chapter Three" heading in the style of the "One" and "Two"-headings some pages into the previous two issues - it might be significant, and it might not. It sorta makes sense if it is, with the #2 cliffhanger being way more lame and commercial-like than the endings of #1 and #3... but more likely, they've just (stupidly, if you ask me) decided to stop it. EDIT: Mr. Lynch's answer to me on his podcast seemed to imply that my hopes might be right - it might be that issue 4 will start chapter 3. He didn't say so straight out, but his answer could definitely imply that. Also, apparently, I need to get myself an icon, 'cause the lack of it is suspicious.
That tiny little thing aside, I loved this issue. Loved. This. Issue.
I didn't think this comic could deliver on the level of the opening issue ever again - it'd simply be too much to hope for. And while this issue isn't quite there, it has certainly made me readjust my hopes. It now seems very much within reach. 'Cause this issue was rock-solid, and more than made up for the second issue which was pretty okay-but-rather-bland in my tastes - it now rather well serves as a mellow lead-in to this anyway, which retroactively improves it.
So what did I like? Well, I'm not gonna spoil anything, but I loved the ending. (Doubt that more than 5% of the fans reading these comics didn't.) I loved seeing the Loan Shark again, though I didn't really register that that was who it was 'til the second read, I was all caught up in the plot the first time around. By way of the Internet I've also realized (didn't notice it on my own, shamefully) one of the quiet lords in the back is the demon sorcerer who owed Giles a favour back in Buffy's season 3 - or one of his kind, anyway (maybe his wife... ;D) - which is not only a cool throwback, but an interesting portent. Because it would seem like there'd be a reason to choose the one demon capable of removing someone's soul to do a cameo like that...
Oh and what more, what more... right. Illyria and the Big Scaly Person. A dragged-out-fight which could've risked being boring on the drawn page like that if the main focus of the panels turned into incredibly captivating background-action behind Angel grumpily untangling some plotthreads for himself and us in the front. All in all, I'd say this was a fabulous issue, and if someone reading this aren't reading this comic already, they should damn sure start. I loved this show, a tiny bit more than what's healthy I suspect, and it would take a lot for me to be happy with a continuation in any other format than the original - heck, it'd take a damn lot for me to be happy with a continuation in the SAME format, too - but this comic has officially pleasantly impressed and suprised me twice in three issues. (And the second one hit the mark just barely beneath what I'd dare hope for, too.)
Go. Read. Love.
That tiny little thing aside, I loved this issue. Loved. This. Issue.
I didn't think this comic could deliver on the level of the opening issue ever again - it'd simply be too much to hope for. And while this issue isn't quite there, it has certainly made me readjust my hopes. It now seems very much within reach. 'Cause this issue was rock-solid, and more than made up for the second issue which was pretty okay-but-rather-bland in my tastes - it now rather well serves as a mellow lead-in to this anyway, which retroactively improves it.
So what did I like? Well, I'm not gonna spoil anything, but I loved the ending. (Doubt that more than 5% of the fans reading these comics didn't.) I loved seeing the Loan Shark again, though I didn't really register that that was who it was 'til the second read, I was all caught up in the plot the first time around. By way of the Internet I've also realized (didn't notice it on my own, shamefully) one of the quiet lords in the back is the demon sorcerer who owed Giles a favour back in Buffy's season 3 - or one of his kind, anyway (maybe his wife... ;D) - which is not only a cool throwback, but an interesting portent. Because it would seem like there'd be a reason to choose the one demon capable of removing someone's soul to do a cameo like that...
Oh and what more, what more... right. Illyria and the Big Scaly Person. A dragged-out-fight which could've risked being boring on the drawn page like that if the main focus of the panels turned into incredibly captivating background-action behind Angel grumpily untangling some plotthreads for himself and us in the front. All in all, I'd say this was a fabulous issue, and if someone reading this aren't reading this comic already, they should damn sure start. I loved this show, a tiny bit more than what's healthy I suspect, and it would take a lot for me to be happy with a continuation in any other format than the original - heck, it'd take a damn lot for me to be happy with a continuation in the SAME format, too - but this comic has officially pleasantly impressed and suprised me twice in three issues. (And the second one hit the mark just barely beneath what I'd dare hope for, too.)
Go. Read. Love.
Georgius the PeasantLoki Aesir # Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:03:09 PM
Georgius the PeasantLoki Aesir # Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:23:03 AM
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Angel (Shanshued and?) died in NFA, and was resurrected by his W&H-contract much like Wesley, as this would explain Wesley's "something in this room should be [alive]"-comment while still making him non-vampiric. It'd also make Angel's internal "they changed me"-comments make way more sense, and give an explanation why he was immobile for a while - he was probably simply laying about being dead. If he's Lilah/Holland-mode of dead, that would also, probably, explain the demons assumption that he's still a vampire, maybe they're picking up a lack of pulse or something.