Angel: After the Fall The Directors Cut and Buffy Season Eight Wolves at the Door

[lady_windermere]

I got my comics today. I am so impressed with Angel: After the Fall The Directors Cut, with 21 pages of imput from Brian Lynch of insight into what went into the writing of Angel: After the Fall issue one. I loved the cover by Alex Garner, and I love the little changes to the art inside the comic. So a very good start.

Before I go on to read Angel: After the Fall #8, First Night #3, I have to have a little rant. I am sorry for all of you who love Buffy Season Eight, but I have to get this off my chest!


I am sure, those of you who read these, that I hated what they were going to do with Dawn in this arc, I hate it even more now. It was just plandering to the Andrew type fanboy. Andrew waited all his life for the giant Dawn Mechanical Dawn show down.....I would've been delighted to have gone through my whole life without it. If you only do a, boring, arc with one of your characters for the comedy value, then you have no respect for your character. Then why should I?

The Xander Dracula interaction? Didn't wash with me. I do not like the Joss!verse Dracula, and preferred him in the non-canon Spike Vs Dracula.

Another item they seem to be plandering to the fanboys with was the whole damp squid of relationships between Buffy and Satsu or Willow and Vasuki. Why bother with the Buffy and Satsu relationship at all, if it leads to only this, we cannot be together....oh to hell with it, lets have a drawing of two naked females in bed for one last time. And the Willow and Vasuki relationship? I think Fraud would have a field day with that. And more in the creators and writers than Willow, who is a product of what they map out for her.

I have been waiting for the Buffy Fray issues to make a decision on whither I continue with the series, but with the latest round of ruining characters, I am not sure. I do not want Fray ruined, and I loved her arc. I can be possitive in saying I hope neither Angel or Spike turn up in Buffy Season Eight. No Never, I don't want either of them ruined as well!

Ok, end of rant


Maybe now I can go off and enjoy Angel: After the Fall, since I have got that off my chest.

Comments

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Oh I totally agree love. The whole Dawn thing in particular grated with me no end. Talk about piss a character away for nothing eh?

But then these comics are written by the worst type of fanboy, and mainly aimed at them sadly.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Thank You Sue, the whole Dawn arc is a total waste of time, words, art and paper! The character is ruined.

So true, pandering fanboys writing for unimaginative ones!