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Has anyone read this yet? Realised there's no thread so thought I'd open one up, just got my hands on the issue and I really enjoyed it. Much, much better than the first one which was also great, but very little happened whatsoever. Not the case with this issue, it jumps straight in and gives us some surprising back-story on Angel's character, and sets up a new villain who's quite terrifying.
I really liked learning how Angel was healed from breaking his back, and it's great that even though this is Spike's story we got into a brief insight into how Angel was feeling after the event occurred. Angel wanted out, he wanted to be out there helping the people which is probably why it irritated him a lot when he saw all the people Connor and Spike had saved, who he couldn't. And it's very sad to see how he was healed, Spike only gets a taste of it for a moment and it's so painful he leaves Wolfram and Hart. As Spike says Angel was "living in it" "it" being the magic used to heal Angel. It looks incredibly painful and it's quite shocking to think Angel had to go through it. If a guy like Spike's so crippled by even a touch, I don't want to think about how hard it must have been for a now human Angel to suffer the magic's for such a long unforgiving period of time.
The new villain is also extremely interesting. She's very sarcastic and playful and even somewhat flirtatious but also very horrifying at the same moment. She reminds me of Glory a lot, although appears to be less ditzy. Quite terrifying to see her take down Illyria like that, so we can at least gather she's as powerful as Hamilton, perhaps even more so. And she's got one terrifying, gruesome power. She has the ability to literally turn those around her into walking rotting corpses. The artist conveyed this really well, it was horrific and shocking and it needed to be. Also quite frightening is that not only does she take down Spike and keep him chained up but she's also got Illyria/Fred trapped somewhere and there's nothing Spike can do about it. But the girl is trouble and without a doubt incredibly cruel, rather than just dusting Spike which she easily could have instead she's opted to have all the people he didn't save, rotting like corpses around him and crying out for his help. That's going to hit Spike really hard. Overall a really compelling awesome villain and quite surprising to learn that it was she who was running the ladies before Spike.
Spike also had some nice moments this issue. I really enjoyed seeing him come to the rescue (or at least attempt to) in the truck, it was very awesome. Even more awesome was how inspired and faithful Jeremy is in Spike in particular, and Illyria/Fred as well. The only thing I found somewhat strange was that Spike made no efforts to try and help the guy (Angel) trapped in the magic's that were hurting him so badly. Surely that should have been a priority? But that's just a small problem for me, I'm more interested to see how Spike reacts to everything that's going on around him. He's just lost a lot of the people he swore to protect and our new lady has decided to make this as hard as possible for him by surrounding him with them. That's going to hurt Spike a lot, can't wait to see how he deals with it.
A very nice issue. As a side piece it's fantastic, much better than ?First Night' I think. It's also giving Spike some nice things to work through as well, and is setting up a new villainess who's bound to cause a lot of trouble.
Vampmogs
Has anyone read this yet? Realised there's no thread so thought I'd open one up, just got my hands on the issue and I really enjoyed it. Much, much better than the first one which was also great, but very little happened whatsoever. Not the case with this issue, it jumps straight in and gives us some surprising back-story on Angel's character, and sets up a new villain who's quite terrifying.
I really liked learning how Angel was healed from breaking his back, and it's great that even though this is Spike's story we got into a brief insight into how Angel was feeling after the event occurred. Angel wanted out, he wanted to be out there helping the people which is probably why it irritated him a lot when he saw all the people Connor and Spike had saved, who he couldn't. And it's very sad to see how he was healed, Spike only gets a taste of it for a moment and it's so painful he leaves Wolfram and Hart. As Spike says Angel was "living in it" "it" being the magic used to heal Angel. It looks incredibly painful and it's quite shocking to think Angel had to go through it. If a guy like Spike's so crippled by even a touch, I don't want to think about how hard it must have been for a now human Angel to suffer the magic's for such a long unforgiving period of time.
The new villain is also extremely interesting. She's very sarcastic and playful and even somewhat flirtatious but also very horrifying at the same moment. She reminds me of Glory a lot, although appears to be less ditzy. Quite terrifying to see her take down Illyria like that, so we can at least gather she's as powerful as Hamilton, perhaps even more so. And she's got one terrifying, gruesome power. She has the ability to literally turn those around her into walking rotting corpses. The artist conveyed this really well, it was horrific and shocking and it needed to be. Also quite frightening is that not only does she take down Spike and keep him chained up but she's also got Illyria/Fred trapped somewhere and there's nothing Spike can do about it. But the girl is trouble and without a doubt incredibly cruel, rather than just dusting Spike which she easily could have instead she's opted to have all the people he didn't save, rotting like corpses around him and crying out for his help. That's going to hit Spike really hard. Overall a really compelling awesome villain and quite surprising to learn that it was she who was running the ladies before Spike.
Spike also had some nice moments this issue. I really enjoyed seeing him come to the rescue (or at least attempt to) in the truck, it was very awesome. Even more awesome was how inspired and faithful Jeremy is in Spike in particular, and Illyria/Fred as well. The only thing I found somewhat strange was that Spike made no efforts to try and help the guy (Angel) trapped in the magic's that were hurting him so badly. Surely that should have been a priority? But that's just a small problem for me, I'm more interested to see how Spike reacts to everything that's going on around him. He's just lost a lot of the people he swore to protect and our new lady has decided to make this as hard as possible for him by surrounding him with them. That's going to hurt Spike a lot, can't wait to see how he deals with it.
A very nice issue. As a side piece it's fantastic, much better than ?First Night' I think. It's also giving Spike some nice things to work through as well, and is setting up a new villainess who's bound to cause a lot of trouble.
Vampmogs
HAPPY! Very HAPPY!
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