Josh and Elisabeth of TFAW.com - my personal mail-order comics source - take customer service to the next level by reviewing their picks and nix of this week’s releases.
Check out the funnybook Siskel and girl-Ebert’s takes on, among others, Buffy Season Eight No. 32, Siege and Siege Embedded (both No. 2), Ultimate X No. 1, and more.
| — | Bill Willingham bares his fangs at Dark Horse Editor Scott Allie and, um, Joss Whedon. Vampire wars! Throw in a 15-year-old girl and we’ve got a box office hit on our hands here. |
Angel Annual No. 1: awesome variant cover. Horrible comic. Dichotic, much like Angel himself - but damn am I glad this is the last issue from the Lynch/Mooney creative team!
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After reading Angel Annual No. 1, I’m sorry to say that I’ve lost my sympathy for the departing creative team of Lynch and Mooney. I really want to be tactful, but I also need to be truthful, and the truth is that the duo’s final Angel comic was just terrible on so many levels. The announcement on the back cover of a new direction for the book, spearheaded by Bill Willingham and Brian Denham, is not a slight to the outgoing team, but a promise to the readers that they will never have to endure such a mediocre effort again - that IDW takes the property seriously, and that they are going to to work to make Angel Season Six a comic worthy of the show’s legacy, like Dark Horse’s amazing Buffy Season Eight books. It’s a shame that Lynch and Mooney’s promising start unraveled so quickly, but it is heartening to see that IDW recognized that they had a problem and brought in top-shelf talent to set things straight.
Apologies to Mr. Lynch and Mr. Mooney, who showed a lot of potential early on, and may well return to Angel with quality stories one day. In the meantime, I am very happy to see my favorite vamp (Team Angel!) in the capable hands of Willingham and Denham, and after reading their excellent debut in issue #28 I can’t wait to see what they have in store for the series.
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