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| Angel: After The Fall Volume 1 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Brian Lynch, Franco Urru
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2217
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 6.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 160010181X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781600101816
ASIN: 160010181X
Publication Date: August 4, 2008
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Product Description
In Angel's final television season, his world ended... but his story didn't. Picking up where Season Five of the fan-favorite TV show left off, this first collection looks at who lived and died after the climactic battle. Why did the team go their separate ways? How did Connor rise up to become one of Hell's greatest champions. Find of what really happened on the night L.A. went straight to hell.
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 Finally- The Official Continuation of Angel. August 3, 2008
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
The series finale of Angel was the most brilliant episode of television I've ever seen. It was just a poignant, sad, and epic send-off to the characters I'd been following for so many years. It ended in the middle of a fight, because the point was that Angel would always be fighting to make things right. It was the perfect way to end the show. So needless to say, I wanted more. I mean, it's "Angel." When the day came that "Angel: After the Fall #1" was released, I held it in my hand for a second and realized that I would probably be disappointed. How could this book live up to my expectations. So again, needless to say... it didn't. It exceeded them.
Brian Lynch understands the story and world of Angel in a way that only we passionate few--the fans--do. He takes what was great about Season Five and continues it, starting us off with an Angel who is broken and half the man he was, but still--as always--trying to make things right. The environment is different, because LA has been sent to Hell. Angel's situation is different, because... well, you'll have to read that to find out, because it's one of many revelations that will shock you with just how ballsy Joss and Brian are... because they take it to THAT level.
These are literally the best comics I've ever read. The story is clear, so large scale, and really tugs hard at the heartstrings. The art is stylized but always beautiful. Artist Franco Urru is great with character moments and facial expressions, but his true appeal is in his action sequences, which bust with life. I've read these five issues about fifteen times each. So last night, when I sat down to read them in the hardcover collection format, I thought I'd just read the first issue and falls asleep. But I read the entire book in the one sitting, after already having read each issue so many times. And I was still utterly captivated. Such is the power of Joss Whedon, Brian Lynch, Franco Urru, and Angel.
The book itself is beautiful and has a gorgeous cover and nice thick pages that will stand up to many readings. There is a nice design to the inside of this hardcover, which really shows that IDW put their all into this product. I've had complaints about IDW's Angel TPBS in the past, because some of the books have very weak spines, but this is simply a very handsome book that really stands out on your shelf. And unlike the Buffy: Season Eight collections, this book is packed with extras. There is an introduction by Brian Lynch, chapter page, a cover gallery, the original series proposal by Joss Whedon and Brian Lynch, the script to the first issue with commentary by Brian Lynch, and even a cloth bookmark for you to mark your place.
10/10 Classic.
Would have made a great sixth season July 27, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
The story takes off sometime after the end of the last television season of Angel. Some of what has happened is explained early, some in flash backs and some along the way. Without spoiling things I just want to say that I think this is good as a comic but would have been even better as another season of the show. It certainly maintains the momentum of twists, turns, action and some very bad happenings that the television show busted out in it's last two seasons.
If you loved the last season of "Angel" I'm fairly certain that you'll at least like this book.
Things for our heroes are both better and worse than I was epecting. :-)
I should have known Wolfram & Hart had more up its sleave than just a supernatural army...with a giant, a dragon and what looked like a whole mess of demons. :-)
What could have been... October 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a devoted Buffy/Angel fanatic, I figured that after the launch of Buffy: Season Eight at Dark Horse that it wouldn't be long before Joss Whedon let loose some new adventures for Angel as well. Well, here we are with Angel: After the Fall from IDW, which is basically what season six could have been. Picking up shortly after the series ended, Los Angeles has pretty much been turned into Hell on earth, and we soon learn just what has happened to Angel and his crew. In this first storyarc, we learn the fates of Angel, Spike, Gunn, Ilyria, Connor, Lorne, and even wolf-girl Nina and lightning-girl Gwen. There are a number of absolutely delicious twists and turns that will catch you by surprise as well. Co-plotted by Whedon and veteran Angel and Spike comics writer Brian Lynch; Angel: After the Fall isn't as engrossing as Dark Horse's Buffy series, but it is an entertaining ride regardless, even if the story becomes a little incomprehensible during all the big action. Franco Urru provides some great artwork as well, and IDW has done a fine job assembling the storyarc in a very handsome hardcover edition. All in all, Angel: After the Fall is a great new direction for the heroic vamp, and is a more than worthwhile trip for fans of the series.
 pretty disappointing actually... August 26, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I actually couldn't connect to this at all...felt pretty superficial. Made me miss the actors a lot! I didn't have the same reaction to the continuation of the Buffy series...to me the personalities of the characters and the plot still engaged me. This just felt dead to me. Angel always had a dark side to it, but it was contrasted with an element of light that I just couldn't find here at all. It just felt flat, dead, depressing and pointless.
Sorry to all of the Joss fans out there (of which I am one) would have loved to be able to give a better review! I loved Fray and Buffy season 8, so I'm hoping the next segment is better...
 Where's the light? August 31, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Finally, the continuation of Angel! I couldn't believe it. I was esctatic.
And disappointment followed.
To explain: the series had grown quite dark by the time it was cancelled. It was with a mixture of gratefulness and regret that I saw it go--I thought Joss was trying too hard to make the show ultra-apocalyptic for the ratings. The final episode, to me, was perfect. It was more about the relationships within what was once Angel Investigations, the characters, the mythology, the rich backdrop Whedon weaves.
Unfortunately this book continued in the strain of the first part of that last season: so dark, I couldn't see the light. Some of the character development and twists were incredible, the story was good, but it just didn't hit the right chords. The entire group has been split, and instead of dialogue urging that split on, there seemed to be apathy on the characters' parts about the cost of the apocalypse on the characters.
I don't want to give too much of this book away, but I definitely think this book continued the ultra-apocalyptic slide, to the detriment of the characterizations and heart of the whole story. If the story could somehow have been made while maintaining a sense of connection and realism (as with Buffy and the first three seasons of Angel) I wouldn't voice my reservations, but that isn't the way it came out.
The violence was gratuitous and to the cost of the best thing about one of my favorite shows: the people. I recommend this book only to whet the fan's curiosity about what happens next. I hope the next one will be more...well...light-filled.
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