Springing out of Joss Whedon's Angel: After the Fall story line, novelist Kelley Armstrong (The Summoning) comes aboard to explore the many repercussions following the explosive last issue of Angel: After the Fall. Artist Dave Ross also comes aboard to present the first arc of AFTERMATH wherein we learn who lived, who died, and who will be forever changed from the experience.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Absolute Disaster,
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This review is from: Angel, Volume 5: Aftermath (Angel (IDW Hardcover)) (Hardcover)
Armstrong blew it. Big time.
I highly enjoyed volumes 1-4 and volume 6 and would rate all of them either 4 or 5 stars. This is the first story arc in which Whedon was pretty much entirely hands-off. Given that, it's a shame that they let Armstrong run with the title as it's pretty clear that she doesn't "get" the series. Expecting witty dialogue and the characters acting true to what we've come to expect from them over 5 seasons of television (along with the first 3 seasons of Buffy featuring Angel as a major player) and another 17 comics (21 if you count Spike: After the Fall...and I do)? Sorry, you're bound to be disappointed. The dialogue is flat and the characters (mainly Angel, Gwen, Connor, and Kate...and some new characters that you probably won't care about because they're poorly written hackneyed cliches) are reduced to one-dimensional caricatures of the people that we've grown to love and/or tolerate. This is truly awful writing for the Angel series. If I didn't know better, I'd think Armstrong walked into the project expecting to treat Angel as a random generic comic book title, having little background as to the history of the characters and having only read a brief plot synopsis of events that had previously transpired. At the time of this writing, I can vouch for the quality of volume 6, which represents a return to form, but I don't know what, if any, long lasting damage Armstrong has done to the series beyond that.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Can we just pretend none of this ever happened?,
This review is from: Angel, Volume 5: Aftermath (Angel (IDW Hardcover)) (Hardcover)
The absence of Whedon's involvement is obvious. The continuity is there, some of the (less interesting) characters are there, but this Angel has no soul. And not in the fun Angelus way. It completely lacks the spirit of series and is a disappointing follow-up to the excellent Angel: After the Fall mini-series. After the Fall managed to maintain the pacing, the personality, and the wit of the TV series, while Aftermath fails on all counts. There isn't a single line of witty dialog in the entire run (and none of the characters sound like themselves which might explain why the author chose the blandest characters for the "arc"), what passes for a story meanders aimlessly until it reaches...absolutely nowhere of consequence, and none of the characters even look remotely like the actors who played them. Even Angel looks like some generic square-jawed hero. David Boreanaz is a very distinctive looking guy and the best the artist could muster is some Rock Hudson/Cary Grant/random-50s-era-superhero character? Connor's hair is just about the only thing with even a passing resemblance to anything or anyone that appeared in the TV series or After the Fall. If you actually liked the series, do yourself a favor and give this one a pass. I hear the next volume is better.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
They need a different writer,
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This review is from: Angel, Volume 5: Aftermath (Angel (IDW Hardcover)) (Hardcover)
I like the direction that the new storyline is taking, and I can even support narrowing the focus on fewer characters. However, the writer of these issues has absolutely no ear for how the characters speak. Even the few paltry instances of witty repartee have none of the impact Whedon fans have come to expect. Hopefully, the previous writers will be back for future issues, or at least exert some much needed influence on the dialog.
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