[indigo sunrise]

Angel & Faith #6 was fantastic. That last panel! can't wait to see where it will go from here.

[comic fan]

Some tweets from Christos Gage about the new issue.

https://twitter.com/#!/Christosgage

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ANGEL & FAITH #6 brings back Drusilla (beautifully drawn by @rebekahisaacs ) introduces Faith's Dad, & has Young Giles!
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By the way Giles followers, this issue does not show the "origin of Ripper". It's more the event that began Rupert on that path.
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Giles is about 17 this issue; according to canon he became Ripper after dropping out of college around 20-21 or so.
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Yes, I know that contradicts "Band Candy" which reduced him to a young thug at 16-17. Take it up with Joss.
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Although if it helps, let's say he started being thuggish after the events seen in today's issue but didn't fully Rippify until a bit later.
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@MsMarvelGirl No plans for Oz. The guy has a wife and kid, I say give him some peace for a little while
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@MsMarvelGirl Some time in Season 8, towards the end...the one with the Indian gods on the cover...we met Oz's wife and kid.
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Lots of people feel strongly Angel would never be a Hitchhiker's Guide fan. I think you underestimate him. Anyone on my side or am I nuts?
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I do think Angel would appreciate God's message to his creations: We Apologize For The Inconvenience. (I know that wasn't Hitchhiker's.)
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I have Angel & Faith # 6."Daddy Issues" Part I of IV"

I loved this issue.Really loved it.

"Daddy Issues" is the perfect title for this arc since we've got...

1)Dru and her vampire father Angel.

2)Faith and her father.

3)Giles and his father.

All with major league Daddy issues(I assuming on Faith and her father anyway.We already know the others issues based off the shows and this issue).The only one missing is Connor from this group Connor and Angel is coming later after this arc most likely.

The flashbacks and the seeds of Giles Ripper years are the highlight for me.I swear these make me regret we never got that BBC Ripper series.These flashbacks and the fact elements of that series are being used in this title makes think how great a Giles series could of been.Man,I would also go for a Young Giles series too after the flashbacks here.

I also really liked the call back to to the Buffy episode,"Bad Girls" and the flashback to Buffy and Faith after Faith accidentally staked the Deputy Mayor.It's great how Faith is putting the lessons learned then to good use and prevented a fellow slayer from making the same mistake and accidently killing a human.

I can't wait for when Faith's father hooks with her.I'm expecting fireworks.

As for the return of Dru.This is going to be good.We've gotten a taste of sane Dru in the IDW comics and I'm curious if we'll get a link to the Spike miniseries.Joss had a hand in the Willow stuff there and IDW worked with Dark Horse on it linking to season 8 with how Spike got his ship and bug crew.Besides the stuff with Dru briefly getting a soul in that story and then having it removed and how that whole thing messed with a already screwed head,the Spike miniseries ended with Spike leaving Dru in the care of the demon mental hospital,Mosaic.So I'm really curious if we'll get a nod to where we left Dru at the end of that to her return here in London,as Mother Superior and sane.Was she cured in Mosaic?

I have a feeling sane Dru is going to be much more dangerous then insane Dru.To bad Connor isn't around yet because that's a meeting I would really like to see.Talk about Daddy Issues again.Angel dealing with his biological child and his vampire child at the same time?Would that make Connor and Dru sort of siblings?

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Now I have a real brain puzzele on that since Darla is Connor's mother and Darla sired Angel.And Dru re-sired Darla.

Talk about twisted and twisty family relations.


And based on tweets from Georges Jeanty,it sounds like Dru will be heading over to Buffy after this arc.Buffy dealing with a sane Dru and a Spike and sane Dru reunion I bet will be explosive.

This was a really superb issue all around.

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Here's Kairos's summery and review.

http://kairosimperfect.livejournal.com/92783.html

A&F #6, Summary and Review

Angel is lurking in the Highgate Cemetery, paying his respects to the grave of Douglas Adams and tracking "something else". The scent of blood leads him to the public housing for the elderly in the Holly Lodge Estate, where he meets a police officer who says he's there on a call from the daughter of one of the residents, whose father missed their regular visit. The officer isn't concerned, saying it's not that unusual for a pensioner to just be sleeping or at the pub, but he insists on being the first one to enter the building.

Before he opens the door to what looks like a common room, the officer can now smell what Angel did, and he thinks it means there's a decaying body in there. Instead, it's a young staff member cutting a cross into the foreheads of a pile of residents with a handsaw. He says, "It's out. They had the disease. But I cut it out.."

He attacks Angel and the police officer with the saw, saying "I can help you too!" Angel disarms and knocks him out: "Trying to help me...never ends well." The officer asks Angel if one of the victims was his friend, and Angel says, "No. No, I don't think he's been here for a while."

The next page cuts to the flashback of young Giles in his Watchers' final. The narration of his journal says that the creature that his friends thought was a vampire was in fact a Lorophage Demon, which feeds on trauma which it sucks out of the minds of its victims. The process is usually fatal, but Giles goes on to describe how it killed two (or more?) of his friends (including his crush, Charlotte), but was interrupted before it finished off Giles himself.

Apparently, training to be a Watcher involved being locked in rooms with starving vampires and peering into hell dimensions, and Giles says that the horror the students had experienced in ten years of this treatment made them especially choice victims for the Lorophage. The adult Watchers are still supervising the exam, though, and three of them tackle the demon and save Rupert, though the demon runs off, having adequately fed.

Later, Rupert has it out with the elder Giles, who was among the three who saved him. He blames them for sending them out unprepared, and says that he never chose to be a Watcher but was packed off to study horror and death when he was still a child. His father claims that this is their heritage and destiny and that horror is part of it. Rupert storms out, saying he'll no longer have any part in this, and the journal says that what came next will be recounted later, as there's only so much pain he can endure at one time.

Cut to Faith and two other Slayers saving a girl from a vampire. Nadira is about the apply the stake when Faith grabs her arm and says to look again. The "vampire" is actually a human who thinks he's a vampire. He says that "she" wouldn't sire him, so he sired himself. Nadira is distraught about almost being a murderer, and then worries that she's offended Faith. There's a flashback to Faith staking the Deputy Mayor, and she says it's alright, that she's glad that experience let her see what was going on and therefore save a life.

The Slayers discuss the "she" that the wannabe mentioned, and Nadira says it must be "Mother Superior", asking Faith if this was finally enough to let them go after her. The other Slayers say that she still hasn't broken any of Harmony's rules, so they don't have enough probable cause - killing vampires is still a legal grey area. Furthermore, Faith says, it would start a war. She leaves as the cops arrive, saying that she's going to look into a reason to dust Mother Superior.

Next page. Angel and Faith are sparring on the roof as the talk. Angel's heard of Mother Superior's popularity too, but she obeys the rules and he doesn't think there's anything odd about her staying out of sight and not using her real name. Faith tells him about the "nut jobs" she's met with ties to her. He makes the connection to the Lorophage in Giles' files, and says that the demon should now be waking from its hibernation cycle to feed.

The two of them pay a visit to Alasdair Coames. He says it's unlikely that the Lorophage itself has caused an epidemic of magic, since they only cause insanity if their attack is interrupted - otherwise it's just death. Faith brings up Giles, who seems to be an exception, and Coames says the attack was too brief. He also cites the Ripper days, which seems to piss Faith off. They continue to discuss the Lorophage and conclude that it could be controlled by a demon, such as a vampire, with an innate mesmeric ability.

As they leave, Angel asks Faith why she was acting defensive. She shrugs it off and says she has a lead from a Slayer who checked out the asylum and found three new residents with trauma in their pasts who suddenly lost their grip, and also incidentally had become obsessed with Mother Superior. Angel doesn't understand what a vampire would get out of making people crazy. Faith has a location, a deconsecrated church turned nightclub, so off they go.

They burst into the club through a stained-glass window. There are a lot of "human groupies and minor vampires". Angel tells them to bring them to Mother Superior, but instead they attack en masse. As the fight breaks out, he thinks about how he hates being in a church, because it brings back memories of how much he loved torturing and killing nuns as Angelus. These panels alternate with a middle-aged man asking Slayers in a pub if they've seen Faith.

Angel and Faith kick in a door at the church/club and enter a kind of miniature throne room. "Time for confession, Mother Superior," says Angel. "You go first. It starts, 'bless me...'"

"Wait," says Drusilla. She's dressed in a periodic English nobility outfit and surrounded by adoring young humans. At the sight of her, Angel can only say "Oh." She finishes his sentence, "Father. Isn't that right?" The man in the pub holds up a picture of himself with Faith and says he's looking for her because he's her daddy.

Angel thinks there's something off about Drusilla, who now has the Lorophage standing at her right hand. As she keeps talking, saying she's setting up shop in a church because she's feeling nostalgic, he realizes what it is: she's sane.


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I'm dealing with some serious braindeadedness today so I'm going to try to make this brief. I loved this issue and I like where it's going.

So far the biggest point of contention among fans seems to be whether or not Angel would have been a Hitchhiker's fan. The answer is yes, yes he would. That's my opinion, but in this case I'm so severely correct that you can just accept it as a fact.

Along the same lines, I really enjoyed seeing Angel's thoughts in this issue. I'd liked Faith's as well, but they were starting to get repetitive, and anyway Angel's my favorite character in the 'verse, so. His thoughts are bound to get repetitive too - sure, we all knew already that he feels guilty about his mass murders etc. - but as he's a character who keeps everything close to his chest, nearly anything counts as an insight. See his irritation about the WWII vets taking the hit instead of the spoiled celebrities?

Charlotte is totally Ginny Weasley. Rupert's a sweetie, and the journal is very effective in this issue for making us see what Giles has been through long before we ever met him. Watcher training really does sound like hell, and if I had any doubts about that, it's enough that a tough, analytical, self-sacrificial man like Giles looks back on it and understands that he was traumatized before he even got to the final exam. Also we're practically promised here that we're going to see some Ripper flashbacks and I cannot contain my excitement.

So, the wannabe bit through a girl's skin with human teeth? And says he sired himself? Do you think he just sucked the blood out of his own arm? Okay done with that topic. I'm glad to see Harmony's rules being brought up here. I know it's a bit forced in for the sake of the overall plot, but it does sound fairly logical to me when it's approached this way - vampires are capable of behaving themselves when it's in their benefit to do so, and Slayers are better off leaving that balance rather than angering the population by killing off some of the "tame" vampires.

Buffy flashback panels are a special treat no matter their context.

Have I ever mentioned that I start bouncing and flapping my hands whenever Angel talks about vampires? I don't even get it. There's something about the reminder that he's such a stranger to our world that makes me adore him even more. Choosing a new name as a tradition among some bloodlines isn't any big revelation, but it's vampire cultural trivia and Angel's just casually discussing it with Faith. Yum. Doesn't hurt that they're having this conversation while sparring on a wet rooftop with Angel in a tank top. Does not hurt at all.

So it looks like Coames is going to be a regular character. That's cool; one of his cats clearly likes Angel. And then Angel mentions vampires having a hypnotic power. 'Cause he knows. 'Cause he's a vampire.

The fight in the church is a pretty brutal one - catch that panel of Angel holding a female vampire into a torch. I like having that as a backdrop to his thoughts about what he used to do to nuns. One of the keys to the Angel vs. Angelus debacle, I think, is that Angel may say the church brings back bad memories, but moments later, what he's actually remembering is how good it felt. No human can really relate to this. When we remember enjoying something, we want to do it again; it's memories of the consequences and how bad they felt that keep us in check. Angel just doesn't have that.

Rebekah Isaacs has done a gorgeous job with Drusilla so far and I'm looking forward to seeing more of her. Beyond that I'm not quite sure how to feel about her appearance. Drusilla is my favorite villain of the entire Buffyverse, but the top thing I always loved about her was that she was insane. No more of that? Her dialogue won't be nearly as much fun. On the other hand, why is she sane? Does it have to do with the end of magic? That could be interesting.

In any case, Angel's been reunited with the most emotionally charged person in his life outside Buffy, and that is an awesome, wonderful thing. Don't let me down, Daddy Issues arc!


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Some more tweets from Christos Gage.

https://twitter.com/#!/Christosgage

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I originally wrote Giles' Dad as distant and haughty like Wesley's Dad, but Joss said he was tired of cold fathers & suggested the change.
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It was a great call. I changed Giles' Dad to caring but with a removed, WWII generation "Keep Calm & Carry On" mentality. Duty comes first.
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@Ivana2804 The impression I got: hypnotism is something vampires with great age and/or power can do. Uncommon but not unheard of.
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@Ivana2804 I would imagine there is some variance among vampires to account 4 different powers in different cultures' mythologies etc.
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[comic fan]

Review: Angel & Faith #6 - Comic Book Resources

Angel & Faith #6

by Greg McElhatton, Reviewer

I can understand if potential readers might be a little wary of "Angel & Faith." The shift of the "Angel" license from IDW to Dark Horse brought an end to the popular "Angel: After the Fall" series, and I think most fans agree that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight" crashed and burned in its second half. But we're six issues into "Angel & Faith" now, and I think it's probably my favorite of the recent "Buffyverse" comic series.

Writer Christos Gage has kept the focus on "Angel & Faith" tight. Spinning out of Giles' death at the end of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" a little over a year ago, Gage (and "executive producer" Joss Whedon) has presented us with a slight twist on the two title characters: Angel wanting to find a way to bring Giles back, with Faith being the voice of reason and calm. Instead of feeling like these two are out-of-character, Gage makes this reversal of roles work thanks to their histories both together and apart, playing off of events in the television series as well as the comics. It's a strong set-up, and it's working well here.

"Angel & Faith" #6 kicks off a new storyline, "Daddy Issues," and there's more father references and appearances here than you shake a stick at. Faith, Angel and the deceased Giles all have their own "daddy" moments here, although they're not all as simple or obvious as you'd think. I'm enjoying how Giles has a major role in this issue through flashbacks, and how Gage is tying it into the present-day events with our duo. Faith's friendship with the newer Slayers is also spinning out well; we're seeing growth in the characters, and the references to Faith's early appearances don't feel forced.

Rebekah Isaacs once again draws some excellent art. I'm impressed with artists who can not only keep their own natural at style on the page but also jump through the hoops to get studio-approved likenesses. That Isaacs can not only do all that but also keep her characters from feeling posed or stiff is that much better. The look in Angel's eyes as he tells the police officer, "I don't think he's been here for a while" is a perfect example; it genuinely looks like David Boreanaz, with a look of pure regret in his eyes shining through to the reader. And that's not even mentioning the on-point depiction of his hair, or cheekbones, or the rest of his facial features. Faith also looks like Eliza Duskhu come to life; her rooftop duel is energetic and fast moving, but we can get a quieter, disgusted look from Faith on the very next page that is just as impressive.

Gage and Isaacs whip up a particularly delicious conclusion to "Angel & Faith" #6; it's a moment that in retrospect we should have seen coming, even as it reveals itself on the final page with a bit of surprise. It's a clever development, one that will excite a lot of readers. It's a good usage of the comic book serial format, and all in all wraps up another strong issue. If you were a fan of the television show or even just the "Angel: After the Fall" comic, definitely check out "Angel & Faith." So far, it hasn't disappointed.

[fireondandelion]

Thanks for the news comic fan!

[Ace Of Hearts]

Thank you comic fan!

I just can't picture Dru as a sane person.

[comic fan]

First Advanced Review for Buffy S9 # 6.

Review - Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 #6 On Your Own Part 1 | BAMFAS.com :: Entertainment*Gaming^Food-Music+Life

Review – Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 #6 On Your Own Part 1

By Jenny– January 27, 2012



Script: Andrew Chambliss
Pencils:: Georges Jeanty
Inks: Karl Story
Colors: Michelle Madsen
Cover: Phil Noto
Alternate Cover: Georges Jeanty with Dexter Vines & Michelle Madsen
Created By: Joss Whedon
Published By: Dark Horse

This review will largely have me fawning over Spike. I try to act impartial but when it comes to the awesomeness that is Spike, it becomes very hard to do. This issue has Buffy dealing with the aftermath of the news that she learned at the end of the last issue. She seeks advice from someone who has first hand knowledge of what it’s like to fall into an impossible situation where the answers aren’t so easy. As Buffy is getting advice and trying to figure out her future, Spike is on a ride-a-long with Officer Dowling. Spike is trying to teach him about the subtleties of zompires. As Spike is explaining the enigma that is Buffy, he receives a S.O.S call from her and without hesitation he’s on his way (swoon). Buffy spills life changing news to Spike, who does nothing but listen and be supportive. As Buffy asks Spike for help, Spike again, without missing a beat is there for her.

This issue is very good and very sad. Spike is amazing, from his very concise summary of his and Buffy’s “story” to his right into action chivalrous behavior. The art is fantastic, the somber tone is captured extremely well. I love the cover, it is irrefutable that Spike has Buffy’s back (without judgment) both literally and figuratively and this is what makes him the best. This issue is the first in a two issue story arc which hopefully will conclude in a not so easy wrap-up in the next issue. Hopefully, I didn’t fawn too much, but I think once everyone reads the issue my Spike love will be understood!

Release Date: February 8th, 2011


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This is the first time I'm actually seeing this.I'm not sure if others had.I always love seeing and hearing the cast members reaction to the comics and where Joss is taking their characters.I still think SMG's reaction to Satsu in Buffy S8 # 12 with Seth Green is a highlight(.And I would love to see or hear her reaction to the end of season 8 with Angel as Twilight,the space sex and Giles death at Angel's hands).James Marsters had a pretty priceless reaction to Xander/Dawn in the comics upon learning about it a few months back as well.

This video is from the SDCC 2010.It's a interview with David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel about Bones.At the end of the interview,the interviewer reveals to DB about season 8 and Buffy & Angel having space sex.Keep in mind that this is between the release of Buffy S8 # 35 and # 36.Before the "Last Gleaming" arc began.

David's reaction is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meZn65Vz054

It starts at the 1:37 mark.

[BrucasBangelBrylan]

Wow David forgot that vampires don't need oxygen?

[fireondandelion]

Thanks for the news

The vid and David

[comic fan]

Comments from Buffyfest on Buffy S9 # 6.

Buffyfest's conversation about Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine on GetGlue

Buffyfest is thinking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine
Reading Issue #6 "On Your Own Pt. 1"

zamolxis So, how is it?

Buffyfest Very well written and has that subtle wow! factor that every issue has had this season. I wonder how fandom will feel.

https://twitter.com/#!/buffyfest/sta...39089827414017

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Reading Issue #6 "On Your Own Pt. 1" Buffyfest's conversation about Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine on GetGlue @GetGlue #BuffyTheVampireSlayerSeasonNine
19 hours ago

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@lisatwingomez You're going to love it...the issue is very well written.
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projectiledanDan Roth

Read Buffy Season 9 #6 tonight. Won't reveal anything, but it got a very strong, emotional reaction out of me. Really well done.
27 Jan

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I hope @projectiledan (Bitsy) doesn't mind me quoting him that @DarkHorseComics Buffy #6 is "the most like the show the comic has felt, maybe ever."
15 hours ago via web

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@tabitha_raye yes, S.9 #6...so good.
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@malonebarbie @projectiledan I liked S.8 but it's pretty polarizing in the fandom. S.9 has been excellent so far, imo. We'd recommend them!
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http://www.newsarama.com/comics/best...ws-120130.html

Angel & Faith #6
Written by Christos Gage
Art by Rebekah Isaacs and Dan Jackson
Lettering by Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt
Published by Dark Horse Comics
Review by Aaron Duran
'Rama Rating: 9 out of 10

It's confession time. I never really liked Buffy. Not the show mind you, the show was a blast. No, I mean the character Buffy. She was always the least interesting character for me. I was always more interested in episodes that focused on Willow, or Xander, and while it might call into question my geek cred; I sincerely believe Angel was a far superior show. (Um, not counting Season 4, which we will not speak). So, when Dark Horse Comics got back the rights to Angel as a series and then included Faith, well this was one happy fanboy. We're six issues in this new series and it shouldn't come as a surprise that, yes indeed, I am digging this book more than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What can I say? I'm a supporting cast kind of guy. In this issue, Angel and Faith continue their awesome Batman and Robin act in London (I'll let you decide who is who in this duo) while coming to terms with their own checkered histories. As Angel continues his own quest for salvation in safely resurrecting Giles, we're treated with a look into the fallen Watcher's past when he was but a schoolboy and faced his first real test.

As he does in Avengers Academy for Marvel Comics, Christos Gage breathes a real sense of life into the characters he writes. Far too often, Angel is portrayed as a one-dimensional person, only driven by whatever haunts him in that moment. During the television series, the potential for such shallowness was very high. Thankfully Gage deftly weaves a character that, while dour about a situation he created for himself, no longer acts the part of the lone tortured soul. This talent for honest character evolution plays even stronger with Faith. For the longest time, the reason everyone liked Faith was because she was the take no “you-know-what” kind of person. However, that kind of character can only maintain an audiences interest for so long, and then the writer has a choice. Let them grow or let them pass. Faith standing as an almost matronly figure to misdirected Slayers has been an interesting path to read. Mind you, Gage isn't throwing out the book and starting over with Angel and Faith. No, what we have here is a natural evolution that once again makes me care about these characters. All while maintaining the core elements that make these two endure for all these years. As the issue unfolds, these two are most definitely driven by events from their darker past, but they will no longer be defined by this past.

Rebekah Isaacs continues to impress me with her fantastic pencils and inking on the series. Penciling compelling sequential art within comics is hard enough without having to appeal to well-established images. I mean, it's one thing to put your own interpretation on Bruce Wayne or Peter Parker, but when you're dealing with licensed images based on real people, that's quite the hat trick. It's far too easy to fall into the photo-referencing trap, and while I don't know how much Isaacs uses, her composition suggests very little. Isaacs's art lends itself to a series that first found life in a visual medium. Her action scenes have a very strong sense of movement and life. Her panels do not look like a series of still images set to words. Each sword swing or punch has an implied follow through, which really helps to sell the danger and excitement in the series. Paired with balanced coloring by Dan Jackson and you've got what might be the prettiest monthly series put out by Dark Horse Comics at this time.

Family and responsibility are some of the stronger themes running through these character, and both the flashback scenes with Giles and the perfectly “squee”-worthy issue ender only reinforce these themes. Really, the only thing that prevents this from being a perfect comic is the rather dense knowledge of Buffyverse that's required. However, if you haven't been reading the adventures of Buffy's darker half on the other side of the pond, then you really are missing the best stuff since the halcyon days of the WB Network. So get the reading!

[comic fan]

Covers and Solicitation for Angel & Faith # 10

Newsarama | Exclusive Dark Horse Cover Reveal: ANGEL & FAITH #10 Page 1

Exclusive Dark Horse Cover Reveal: ANGEL & FAITH #10

01 February 2012

Dark Horse's Angel & Faith series from writer Christos Gage and artist Rebekah Isaacs has been a well-received spinoff of their Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise, and courtesy of the publisher, we have the exclusive first look at both covers for May's Angel & Faith #10.

Here's some early info on the issue, which features guest artist Chris Samnee of Thor: The Mighty Avenger fame: "Angel and Faith are forced into battle, less by choice and more by circumstance, when two mysterious women from Giles’s past call on the unlikely duo for help. But that’s only the beginning of Angel and Faith’s troubles as the ladies settle in for the night!

Series writer Christos Gage (Avengers Academy) and guest artist Chris Samnee (Thor), the creative team of Vertigo’s Area 10, reveal more about Giles’s past and further Angel’s quest in bringing the Watcher back from the dead."

First up, here's the Steve Morris cover for the issue.



And here's the variant cover by series artist Rebekah Isaacs.

[fireondandelion]

Thanks for the news!

[Ace Of Hearts]

That vid with David's reaction!! Sarah's reaction to Buffy/Satsu is still the best ever though. LOL

Thank you for the update!

[comic fan]

Originally Posted by Ace Of Hearts (View Post) That vid with David's reaction!! Sarah's reaction to Buffy/Satsu is still the best ever though. LOL Thank you for the update!

Have you've seen James Marsters reaction to Xander/Dawn in the comics?

It was this past year.It was James on a panel with Nick.Nick is asked about the comics and he brings up how Xander/Dawn being together squicks him out.As Nick says that,James gives a double take to to the Xander/Dawn thing and a WTF reaction. He actually shakes his head and goes,"What?"Nick then explains it to him.

It was from the ECCC 11.Panel with Nick,James and Clare Kramer.

Buffy Panel at Emerald City Comicon 2011 - YouTube

It starts at the 6:48 second mark.

Just check out James reaction to Nick talking about Xander having sex with Dawn.


Some tweets from Christos Gage about Angel & Faith # 10.

https://twitter.com/#!/Christosgage

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The ANGEL & FAITH #10 cover & solicit revealed! Newsarama | Exclusive Dark Horse Cover Reveal: ANGEL & FAITH #10 Page 1 Guest artist @ChrisSamnee ! Characters from RIPPER! Pre-order now!
11 hours ago

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I am beyond thrilled to work with @ChrisSamnee again on ANGEL & FAITH #10! Putting the band back together! (You've read AREA 10, right?)
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And the "two mysterious ladies" in ANGEL & FAITH #10 are characters Joss originally planned to use in the RIPPER TV show!
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Me too! RT @ChrisSamnee: Likewise, Chris!!! This issue has been a complete blast for me!! SO glad we were able to do this.
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@SlayAliveForum It's a one shot, called "Women Of A Certain Age". But the new characters will be sticking around.
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1)This is our second one-off of Angel & Faith

2)The title is,"Women Of A Certain Age."

3)The two new female characters were created by Joss for the aborrted Ripper BBC series.They'll be used here instead.

4)These two new characters will be staying around in the book.

These two women are most likely the two women from the portrait at the end of in issue 1.

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Covers And Sollictation for Buffy S9 # 9.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/...over-spoilers/

Buffy Season Nine Issue 9 Cover (SPOILERS)

Written on February 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston



The cover to issue 8 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine caused considerable stir. And we still don’t exactly know how that’s going to play out, although I suspect a Skywalker apporach. But, trying not to spoil anything, the covers to Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine #9 appear to show a Buffy who is, well, less likely to be on her way to Venus de Milo status.

Of course there are two of her on Phil Noto’s cover. I really hope this isn’t one of Xander’s weird dreams. Are these Buffys that could have been? Here’s the solicits if you can garner some clues from that. The comic is on sale May 9th.

Andrew doesn’t always make the best choices (see Season 6). And now Buffy finds herself and the very course of her life profoundly affected by one of Andrew’s over-the-top, idiotic . . . hair-brained . . . schemes. Together with Andrew and Spike, the worried Slayer will have to confront herself and her comrades, as well as a long-standing annoyance, the number-one Buffy hater of all Buffy haters: Simone, the gun-toting Slayer.

Packing the punch into Buffy Season 9 are series writer Andrew Chambliss and guest artist Cliff Richards (Dollhouse)!




Phil Noto's cover makes me think of a possible nod to SMG's show Ringer.Also Buffy(s) have both her arms on each cover.

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Tweet from Scott Allie about Noto cover for Buffy S9 # 9.

https://twitter.com/#!/ScottAllie

@ScottAllie Is Buffy#9 cover a Ringer homage/parody?
1 hour ago via web

ScottAllieScott Allie

@MoscowWatcher More homage. Trying to visualize the idea of the life choices before her.
35 minutes ago

[comic fan]

Preview pages for Angel & Faith # 7.

EXCL. PREVIEWS: "Angel & Faith," "King Conan" & More - Comic Book Resources

EXCL. PREVIEWS: "Angel & Faith," "King Conan" & More

Courtesy of Dark Horse, CBR presents exclusive advance looks at new comics hitting stores Wednesday, February 29, including "Angel & Faith" #7, "Usagi Yojimbo" #144 and more.

Courtesy of Dark Horse, CBR presents exclusive advance looks at new comics hitting stores Wednesday, February 29, including "Angel & Faith" #7, "King Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword" #2 and more!

Click the covers to read the previews...



Horrors across the London landscape have led Angel and Faith to a certain hot new vampire in the underground scene . . . Drusilla. She is back in her homeland and feeling better than ever!

While Angel indecisively deals with Dru, Faith must sort out an unexpected guest of her own who promises to rile up her inner turmoil with stories from the past.










How indeed.

So we finally see more in full what Angelus did to torture Dru before he turned her.

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Some Buffy news coming Monday? Tweet from Scott Allie.

https://twitter.com/#!/ScottAllie

@ScottAllie Thank you! Fascinating cover. When do you plan to reveal the title of Buffy #9?
4 hours ago via web

ScottAllieScott Allie

@MoscowWatcher Monday.
3 hours ago

[amy2345]

Can't wait to read this one!