Brian Lynch's Characterisation of Spike
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lady_windermereI have been lurking round the IDW Message board, and then saw this.
Brian Lynch, scripter of IDW Publishing's July-debuting Spike: After the Fall said character creator Joss Whedon provided a solid direction for the series.
"Joss laid the groundwork with me, a very specific outline, and now I'm carrying it out," Lynch said. "He did the heavy-lifting in the beginning, and now I'm the spokesman, I'm the mouthpiece."
Here's how IDW describes the four-part series:
"In IDW's Angel: After the Fall, all of the characters who survived the melee that concluded Joss Whedon's TV series have had to find their way in a Los Angeles cast into hell. As befit his character, the vampire Spike seemed to have it all at the start -- he was set up in a certain Beverly Hills mansion, surrounded by a cadre of female warriors and Illyria, too. But it wasn't always so easy for him.
"Spike: After the Fall tells the tale of what happened in the intervening months since that alleyway cataclsym. Along for the ride in this series are Illyria, who has a tendency to revert back to Fred at inopportune times, as well as Angel's Dragon, and a new cast of characters as well. Most importantly, the series introduces a character who will come to be see as Spike¹s arch-nemesis. Even more than Angel."
Series artist Franco Urru provides two issues in a 50/50 split for the first issue, and the Australian art team of The Sharp Brothers offer a grindhouse-inspired incentive cover.
"I cannot express how great this is coming out," Lynch said. "I didn't want to dilute Angel: After the Fall or the previous Urru/Lynch Spike tales, so we didn't plan this until we saw whether or not it would work. It worked. It works soooo well. This is gonna be goooood. All the hell! None of the Angels!"
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angel6_aft, but want to voice some concerns at my own journal, rather than there, as Brian sometimes visits.
Brian has done well in his Spike stories, but the more I hear him talk about Spike the more I feel his characteristion of Spike is not mine. I don't see Spike as an anti-hero, nor Angel as an arch-nemisis of Spike's and I really cannot see Spike as "having it all" in Hell.
Any thoughts?
Should say this is post NFA Angel Season 5!
Brian Lynch, scripter of IDW Publishing's July-debuting Spike: After the Fall said character creator Joss Whedon provided a solid direction for the series.
"Joss laid the groundwork with me, a very specific outline, and now I'm carrying it out," Lynch said. "He did the heavy-lifting in the beginning, and now I'm the spokesman, I'm the mouthpiece."
Here's how IDW describes the four-part series:
"In IDW's Angel: After the Fall, all of the characters who survived the melee that concluded Joss Whedon's TV series have had to find their way in a Los Angeles cast into hell. As befit his character, the vampire Spike seemed to have it all at the start -- he was set up in a certain Beverly Hills mansion, surrounded by a cadre of female warriors and Illyria, too. But it wasn't always so easy for him.
"Spike: After the Fall tells the tale of what happened in the intervening months since that alleyway cataclsym. Along for the ride in this series are Illyria, who has a tendency to revert back to Fred at inopportune times, as well as Angel's Dragon, and a new cast of characters as well. Most importantly, the series introduces a character who will come to be see as Spike¹s arch-nemesis. Even more than Angel."
Series artist Franco Urru provides two issues in a 50/50 split for the first issue, and the Australian art team of The Sharp Brothers offer a grindhouse-inspired incentive cover.
"I cannot express how great this is coming out," Lynch said. "I didn't want to dilute Angel: After the Fall or the previous Urru/Lynch Spike tales, so we didn't plan this until we saw whether or not it would work. It worked. It works soooo well. This is gonna be goooood. All the hell! None of the Angels!"
I posted it at
angel6_aft, but want to voice some concerns at my own journal, rather than there, as Brian sometimes visits.Brian has done well in his Spike stories, but the more I hear him talk about Spike the more I feel his characteristion of Spike is not mine. I don't see Spike as an anti-hero, nor Angel as an arch-nemisis of Spike's and I really cannot see Spike as "having it all" in Hell.
Any thoughts?
Should say this is post NFA Angel Season 5!
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Date: 2008-06-20 02:06 pm (UTC)Will females have been quite an influence in Spike (and William's) life, I think Brian is slightly overdoing it. Brian does like to give Spike his own team, mostly female. I can see him doing it again. I guess I just kind of wish the team was Beck and Tok again. That was a good relationship. I pray that Spider is not a love interest, and that there is no relationship between them. I would like her better if she was a fighting partner.
I guess I will just have to wait and see, like everyone else!
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Date: 2008-06-20 02:22 pm (UTC)It's true that women have been, and continue to be, a big influence on Spike. Don't mind that at all. It's the way this is set up that bothers me. However, I can cope if it's just a temporary phase. If Spike is left at the end in sybaritic pseudo-bliss with Spider and co, I shan't be a happy camper - not unless Brian works miracles with Spider's character in Spike: After the Fall, which I suppose is possible.
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Date: 2008-06-20 02:44 pm (UTC)Have an idea about the ending, where that really wouldn't happen, but I guess Brian hasn't written it yet, so it is up in the air still!