Angel After Fall Views
Co-plotted by Whedon - with the actual comics scriptwork tackled by Brian (Spike: Asylum) Lynch - the new mini-series opens on a besieged City of Fallen Angels. Filled with demons fighting turf wars and running roughshod on the cityt's beleaguered human survivors, L.A. has become a rough place, indeed. Having somehow brought the dragon onto his side, our hero is still trying to fight the good fight, operating out of the law offices of the firm responsible for the cityd's displacement. Aided by the ghost of onetime ally Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, whose ultimate allegiances remain unclear throughout the seriese' first three issues, Angel gets things rolling by pissing off one of the cityn's nastier demons. Said demon, Burge, gets particularly peevish after our hero kills his thuggish demon son. Concerned about what Burge might do for revenge, the vampire tracks down his own son Connor to warn him of the possible repercussions.
Angel: After the Fall is a comic book limited series by IDW Publishing. Plotted by Joss Whedon and written by Brian Lynch, it is the canonical continuation of the Angel television series. A seventeen-issue storyline, it eventually spun-off into an ongoing series. It also spawned a prequel/spin-off title Spike: After the Fall, featuring Spike.
Brian Lynch and Franco Urru also created a one-issue epilogue to the series, subtitled Become What You Are . Focusing on Gunn and Illyria, the issue wraps up their character arcs in After the Fall as well as setting up the mini series Angel: Only Human. Become What You Are was released as #23 of the ongoing Angel series and re-released in the hardcover collection Angel: Last Angel in Hell.
Originally intended as a 13-issue limited series, After the Fall expanded into a 17-issue Angel series. After the Fall was then followed by an ongoing series, with rotating writers and artists but without the input of Joss Whedon. In addition to this, After the Fall has also spawned multiple spin-offs of its own. Spike: After the Fall bridges the gap between Spike's First Night mini-arc and his first appearance in After the Fall over four issues. A second five-issue spin-off, Angel: Only Human, picks up after #23, following Gunn and Illyria.[3] A third four-issue spin-off, Spike: The Devil You Know was released. A new four-issue spin-off featuring Illyria will be released beginning in November 2010. IDW also announced an ongoing Spike title, another canon title featuring explicit Buffy Season Eight crossovers.[4]