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Joss Whedon's ANGEL Is Making a Return in a New Comic Series!
BOOM! Studios has announced a new comic book series that will see the return of Joss Whedon’s vampire with a soul, Angel!
The new Angel series comes from Bryan Edward Hill (Batman, American Carnage) and Gleb Melnikov (Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers) and it takes place in the same timeline and BOOM! Studios’ current Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic series.
The Angel series in the modern day and the character will make his first appearance in this timeline in the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer #4 issue, which will be released on the same day as Angel #0. Here’s a description of the series:
Meet Angel – a vampire cursed with a soul who has spent centuries protecting humanity from the monsters that lurk in the dark…including himself. Now, looking for redemption for the atrocities committed by the monster he was when he was first turned at the age of 18, Angel stumbles upon a new demon uprising and a shocking truth: The restoration of his humanity can only come if he takes one more life: a certain Slayer from Sunnydale who he’s never met…but may now be his greatest enemy.”
As a long time fan of the character Angel, I’m pretty excited to see where this new story takes the character. When talking about what Angels journey is going to be in the story, Hill told CB:
“I think about Angel as a character who is in this wilful extended adolescence in a way. It's like a melancholy Robert Smith adolescence. Robert Smith was the lead singer of The Cure for all the young people who have no idea what I'm talking about. They have a new album coming out in 2019, you should get it. It's really based on my experience as a teacher, because I was a teacher after I graduated college, and I was in the middle of my own early 20s maelstrom. But then we get around younger people, you have to make that decision, “Am I going to get over my own issues so I can help them through theirs?” I think that's part of what Angel's journey is going to be in the story.
“How do you save this generation from the things that are all coming together from the horrors of our own approach? So, we're going to be delving into, I think, things that are contemporary and relevant to what people in high school are dealing with. Social pressure, social media, self-judgment, isolation, loneliness, disconnection. These stories, horror in general — and I do look at Angel through a prism of thoughtful horror among other things — it always works best when it has an allegory; when it speaks to our reality in a heightened way that makes us reconsider that and Whedon’s work was ripe with that. Setting Buffy the Vampire Slayer, setting her in a high school, there's meaning to that.
“So that's what we're going to do. If you look at the body of my work, you'll see a lot of my stories are about purpose and redemption. More specifically, how can you turn tragedy, whether it's tragedy that you caused or tragedy that's following you, into something positive? So with Angel, we have an opportunity to show difficult steps of that journey, for him, as a character and that's exciting to me.”
Angel will hit comic book stores on April 17th. Does this sound like a series that you’ll jump on board and start reading?