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Here's Comic Book Resources report of the IDW panel.Has some more details.

Comic Book Resources > CBR News: NYCC: 10 Years Later: IDW Expands Past Its Horror Roots

NYCC: 10 Years Later: IDW Expands Past Its Horror Roots

by Benjamin Birdie, Reviewer

Next up, Ryall revealed the company’s plans for their successful series of “Angel” comics, including both their ongoing series and other releases. Starting things off was the announcement that Kelly Armstrong would be picking up “Angel: After The Fall” series where Brian Lynch leaves off with #17, featuring artist Dave Ross on a five issue story. Brian Lynch then discussed his continuing involvement with “Angel” books in a series of specials issues, with “everybody dealing with Spike’s death, because he dies in [Lynch’s last issue,], and, he doesn’t really die, I was just trying to spoil everyone. You’ll get it later, it’s funny,” hinting at the conclusion to his run on Angel, perhaps? One of the more interesting reveals of the show was Lynch explaining how Juliet Landau, who played Drusilla on the original “Angel” and “Buffy The Vampire Series” television series, contacted him on Facebook about how much she was enjoying his work on the Angel comics. (To which Tony Lee interjected, “Juliet Landau stalked you on Facebook?” causing Lynch to cheekily admit he may have stalked her first.) This led to IDW signing Landau on to write two upcoming issues dealing with Drusilla’s reaction to recent events in the book and what Spike has been up to, with art by Franco Urru, who will be working on the bulk of the upcoming issues of the series.

Lynch will also write a story explaining Gunn’s mobility in a sequence during Armstrong’s story (he was comatose as of #16). “So readers are going to be like, WTF?” explained Lynch. “And then I’m writing an issue [where] readers are going to go, ‘Oh, that TF!’” John Byrne will also be writing and drawing a stand alone story of Angel in during World War I and is “doing some special things with the art."

Ryall then revealed that Spike would be receiving his own series of indefinite length. Lynch, who will be writing the series, described it as a “big, fun, comedy, romance, western, musical, cartoon documentary. With Spike.”




It sounds like Spike will be involved in the Dru two parter from Brian and Juliet Landau.And Franco will be drawing it too.

It also sounds like the Gunn story Brian is doing is going to eleberate on Gunn's state during Kelley's Aftermath arc.