Angel & Faith Volume 3: Family Reunion (2013) (Diamond Book Distributors)Christos Gage (script), Rebekah Isaacs (art)
Grade: B+
Genre: graphic novel / Angel & Faith / vampire
Source: NetGalley / own
Angel & Faith: (1) Live Through This, (2) Daddy Issues, (3) Family Reunion
Willow is in town and pledges to help Angel with his mission to bring Giles back to life – if he’ll help her with hers. After Buffy destroyed the Seed, thereby eliminating all magic from the world, Willow has been desolate. Magic was her life and now she’s on a mission to get it back. It’s crazy and dangerous, but Willow has to do it – for the good of the world.
In order to complete her task,
she needs to go to Quor’toth – the demon dimension where Connor grew up. Angel
and Connor aren’t exactly estranged, but they’re not going to win
father-and-son-of-the-year-award either. Connor’s happy to help out and when
they get there, they quickly come to realise that he’s their only chance of
surviving their trip …
A Hero if His Own Story, Parts One and Two explains the complex
relationship between Angel, Whistler and Pearl and Nash – a brother and sister
duo who had been Angel’s right-hand-men when he was Twilight, but are now
intent on killing him. We start to get a little more of the bigger picture and
of the devastation that’s to come …
This was good. It was heavy on
the Willow-mission side, with not so much on the Angel-mission side, but I
guess that’s alright. I love Willow and while I’m not quite liking her
going-behind-Buffy’s-back element, she’s doing what she’s gotta do. She’s got
her own arc being published in a week called Willow Wonderland that looks
fantastic and I can’t wait to see where that takes her.
I’ve mostly sussed out the
Angel-Connor relationship in my head. I’ve never watched all of Angel
(currently re-watching Season 1 now, and about half of the episodes in Season 1
is as far as I’ve ever got) but I’ve read a fair few of the books. They’re no
substitute for watching the show, as they assume that you know everything, but
I’ve found that they are a very effective means of learning quickly. I’m
definitely very excited to watch the Angel-Connor dynamic onscreen when I get
there. I know it’s going to be some time yet (especially considering how slow
I’m getting through the episodes at the moment), but I’m hoping that that will
help these comics click. I’m just loving how old-school everything was in 1999.
As always, art and story are
fantastic. I’m really coming to love Christos Gage and his script delivers
every time. Rebekah Isaacs has done a great job with the art and the covers and
the collection of alternate covers at the back of the volume are brilliant and
amongst my favourite set of alternates I’ve seen across the Buffy Seasons 8-9 and Angel and Faith series.
At the moment, Angel & Faith is overtaking Buffy Season 9. Not that I don’t love Buffy, but Season 9 just isn’t doing it
for me. Angel and Faith, on the other hand, are a fantastic pair and I’m really
looking forward to seeing them together in the show. I’m understanding the plot
much better than I do Buffy at the
moment, and that goes miles towards putting points in its favour. Bring on
Volume 4.
Image courtesy of Dark Horse
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