CBR: Saying Goodbye To IDW's "Angel"

[CBR News]

In advance of the franchise-wrapping "Angel Yearbook," a quartet of writers with the biggest impact on the Joss Whedon character's legacy at IDW discuss how they'll bring the adventures of Angel, Spike and the rest to a close.


Full article here.

[Angelo2113]

I just read Angel: After the Fall 1 - 17 this past weekend and thought it was awesome. I haven't read the rest yet and didn't want to read any spoilers in this interview, but is the Angel series moving to Dark Horse or is the "cast" of Angel actually going to be moved to the pages of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series?

[vmars]

I just read Angel: After the Fall 1 - 17 this past weekend and thought it was awesome. I haven't read the rest yet and didn't want to read any spoilers in this interview, but is the Angel series moving to Dark Horse or is the "cast" of Angel actually going to be moved to the pages of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series?

Dark Horse hasn't said their exact plans for what they plan to do with the Angel license. I have no idea since they've said Buffy season 9 is gonna be a whole different monster than season 8.

[Leocomix]

Willingham was my favourite writer on the series. Glad he was acknowledged in passing for the awesome characters he brought to the series.

[EMeadow]

I find it funny how none of these guys (specially Lynch) don't think that because they've done such a good job with Angel at IDW, that Whedon is not going to ask them to write stuff for the characters when he starts them up again at Dark Horse in some fashion.

[EMeadow]

Willingham was my favourite writer on the series. Glad he was acknowledged in passing for the awesome characters he brought to the series.

Shouldn't have been acknowledged at all. Arrogant "I don't care what Whedon says, I'll tell the stories how I want" idiot who lost the job faster then his eyes could blink.

[DisneysFolly]

I don't care who was writing it, the series just never worked for me. I gave it up after a few issues of Willingham but that was more of an indictment of the total series direction than his specific writing. It just never felt like a natural progression of the television series. It went in a completely different direction and spent too much time in abstract weirdness. Credit to them for exploiting the comic book medium in a way they never would have on the WB. But it just never rang true for me.

[Leocomix]

Shouldn't have been acknowledged at all. Arrogant "I don't care what Whedon says, I'll tell the stories how I want" idiot who lost the job faster then his eyes could blink.

Given that he outclassed all those Angel writers including Whedon's work on Angel in Buffy Season Eight, he's got every right to get his due credit rather than be ripped off of it.

[jediracer]

Shouldn't have been acknowledged at all. Arrogant "I don't care what Whedon says, I'll tell the stories how I want" idiot who lost the job faster then his eyes could blink.

You have quote marks but he never said that.

Aside from the fact that Whedon, while the creator, does not actually "own" this property or these characters, he was not giving his input to IDW at the time, so the point is moot from just about every direction.

Willingham was the second best Angel writer at IDW. The book has sucked balls big time since he was taken off. Take issue 40, for example. The most atrocious art I have ever seen in the pages of a published comic book.

And if you read the credits, you will see that the editor Mariah Huehner slowly went from beign listed as editor and "co-writer" to writing the scripts herself! Always a bad sign when the editor starts writing the book themselves.

Good riddens IDW!

As far as what will happen to Angel under Dark Horse reign, color me interested. They did not exactly leave him in a good place at the end of Season 8.

[Celina Hernandez]

It had a lot of promise, and we bought the first round of issues but it felt like something was missing.