Angel: After the Fall #13
Nope.
Sorry, but nope. Dropped. Which for me just means that I'll still be reading it but not buying it which, okay, not exactly the scathing criticism that it should be, but still. Drizopped. I said last time that this issue had better be Olympic Gold, and it simply wasn't. We're still screwing around with a bunch of vampire Gunn shenanigans, but with that added "HEY EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED IS PREP TIME FROM THE GODS" bit that I hated about season 4. The art is marginally fixed, but it's on the marginal side of marginal. And the dialogue is not fixed at all. I know it's irritating that I harp on this, but it's a big deal. The fact is that no cast member of Angel ****ing talks this way. None. It's confusing, and it's stupid. It doesn't sound like them, it sounds completely like some other character. Just try to imagine J. August Richards or Charisma Carpenter speaking these lines.
Yeah, there's good things here. The part where Wesley goes, straight up, "Make no mistake. The prophecy is about Angel. Period. The end. You are crazy and stupid." And also the part where Cordelia is like "If we were that sneaky, we'd be grey hats" 'cause y'know what, both those lines sound like lines that these characters would actually say, instead of Lynch trying to fit everyone into this mold of his that just, I dunno, belongs somewhere else.
(5.3 out of 10)