By Joss Whedon (plot), Brian Lynch (plot & script), Tim Kane, David Messina, Stephen Mooney & John Byrne (illustrators) & Ilaria Traversi, Lisa Jackson & Leonard O’grady (colors)
There are ways of doing a good anthologies comic and there are ways of doing it awful. The way done for Angel #6, sadly, is the latter. It’s weird because the previous Tales from Buffy were pretty good. The stories here are inconclusive or just non-interesting at all.
The tales told in this issue are gathered by the telepathic fish. It’s a nice decent resource, I give them that. The first has Spike meeting with Fred who turns again into Illyria – in hell anything can happen. Connor’s story deals with him remembering who he really is, and what happened to him in the previous years. Eventually, he gets caught by some nasty demons, and it leaves us with a big cliffhanger! Damn. Serialized short stories? Not good for a montly book like this. Sorry!
Finally, there’s a Lorne story – which is complete – but so boring and tedious, that it’s pointless. It’s written in rhyme (it feels more like a song that Lorne sings), recapping what happened to him before.
I really just wanted to read and see what happened after the last episode of Angel on season 5, like they promised, but I’ll just have to keep on waiting for the payoff. Sigh. (Grade: D)
-Daniel Yanez
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