Friday, June 26, 2009

...and the crapiness of Aftermath

Okay, so After the Fall was wonderful. Slightly flawed, but overall, an epic and well-written story. Now, we have the follow-up: Aftermath. Written by an unknown Kelley Armstrong and drawn by an unknown Dave Ross, Aftermath ended up becoming...a failure. The writting is terrible, the storyline is all over the place and the art is horrendous. For example, Angel looks like a Chinese Hulk-like bodybuilder...with no tattoo! Connor looks like a girl and Kate Lockley looks nothing like herself. There's some new character called Dez, who I have no interest in really and a later new character called James. Oh and he's an angel. From heaven. Really. The main storyline seems to be about Angel and gang trying to figure out why humans are acting like animals. Turns out, they are animals turned into humans by the time reset and thus, must be turned back into animals. Animal shifter lover writing the arc here, so that doesn't surprise me. Did I mention that Gwen is also there, wanting to prove her worth to Connor. And Connor acts worse than he did in Season 4. I mean, wtf?? Let's just say the characters are completely off and don't even look anything like themselves. Then, we have another story introduced in which angels are on earth, killing off demons to lower the numbers, but they're killing every demon they find. Angel joins forces with James to learn why the angels are being kidnapped (honestly, the whole angel thing is ridiculous. It feelt too much like Supernatural, which did it better). Now, I don't have the final issue in the arc, but I just know it's going to be bad. I mean, they even brought Cordelia in to explain why the angels are here and that Angel should listen to James. Her appearance is soooo completely wasted in this. Angel doesn't even to react to her appearance. God, this shouldn't have been done or at least, should be done by somewhere who know's what they're writing about, as if they've watched Angel and read After the Fall. Aftermath is a terrible follow-up for After the Fall and I eagerly await the return of Lynch and Urru and I can't wait to find out who the new writer is for the rest of Angel. If you want to follow on from Aftermath right, just kill Dez, send James back to heaven and have it never mentioned again. Simple and easy. People, just don't buy Aftermath. Okay?

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