I really hope that's not the purpose of the Giant!Dawn arc, as tallgent among others speculate - considering she pretty much did exactly that in s7 of the TV show. Even if s7 doesn't seem to be required viewing for the comics writers, it would kind of suck if one of the characters spent half of season 8 just trying to get back to where she should have been at the start of it if they'd left her alone.
Bander ship is ready to raise the sails.
Still not seeing neither the foundation nor the purpose of that. Then again, I didn't see Butsu either, so what do I know? :-)
I can't make comics panels "move" no matter how hard I try. Maybe it's because I don't have any previous experience in comics - but to me it's like Beethoven's symphonies in a hip-hop arrangement.
Nicely put. Especially since I've heard one or two hip-hop songs that actually managed to sample classical music and make it sound good - it's not even close to the real thing, of course, but it's a different take on it. Cover versions can be good sometimes. (Though tying this back to the Tokyo arc, I always hated the way Puff Daddy butchered Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" on the soundtrack to Godzilla.)
The final panels of Civilians are incredibly poignant.
The more I think about it, that was probably the strongest part of "First Night" - not necessarily all of "Civilians," but that one page; it captured the spirit of Angel a lot better than most of the stories the comics have told so far. If we'd gotten more stuff like that, it might have seemed less frustrating; as it is, I can't help thinking that the last three issues told us very little we didn't already know and I just want them to get on with it. Funny thing; the Buffy comics seem to refuse to tell us how they got to where they are, and the Angel ones are so hooked up on details they can barely get the story started...
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She has overcome her whiny self
I really hope that's not the purpose of the Giant!Dawn arc, as
Bander ship is ready to raise the sails.
Still not seeing neither the foundation nor the purpose of that. Then again, I didn't see Butsu either, so what do I know? :-)
I can't make comics panels "move" no matter how hard I try. Maybe it's because I don't have any previous experience in comics - but to me it's like Beethoven's symphonies in a hip-hop arrangement.
Nicely put. Especially since I've heard one or two hip-hop songs that actually managed to sample classical music and make it sound good - it's not even close to the real thing, of course, but it's a different take on it. Cover versions can be good sometimes. (Though tying this back to the Tokyo arc, I always hated the way Puff Daddy butchered Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" on the soundtrack to Godzilla.)
The final panels of Civilians are incredibly poignant.
The more I think about it, that was probably the strongest part of "First Night" - not necessarily all of "Civilians," but that one page; it captured the spirit of Angel a lot better than most of the stories the comics have told so far. If we'd gotten more stuff like that, it might have seemed less frustrating; as it is, I can't help thinking that the last three issues told us very little we didn't already know and I just want them to get on with it. Funny thing; the Buffy comics seem to refuse to tell us how they got to where they are, and the Angel ones are so hooked up on details they can barely get the story started...