Angel: After the Fall interview
I recently talked to Chris Ryall of IDW about “Angel: After the Fall,” the comic-book series that continues the “Angel” TV show. Here’s a few of his answers, and, look for more from the interview in an upcoming “Word Balloons” column.
How did “Angel: After the Fall” come about?
Ryall: It’s something we’ve wanted to do since we started publishing Angel comics three years ago, but didn’t think would ever happen. At the time, the show had just ended, and Joss moved on to other things. And none of us wanted to presume to do the next “season” of the show without him, even if it had been allowed. Then there was talk of Angel straight-to-DVD flicks, which would catch up with some of the characters from the show. So we’d pretty much given up the idea and just focused on doing comics (that tried, in various ways, to ineffectively allude to mmmaybe taking place after the show ended).
Cut to maybe nine months ago, and the start of our Spike: Asylum series. The writer, an extremely talented sort named Brian Lynch, just happened to live in Los Angeles and fortuitously bumped into Joss Whedon at breakfast the day before the first issue of his series hit stores. he said a quick hello to Joss, and mentioned the comic, and Joss checked it out the next day… and loved it. I quickly heard from Joss that he was finally ready to tell the story of what happened next, if he could do so with Brian. He felt like Brian just nailed the characters and their voices and would be the perfect partner to tell the tale.
Brian fairly jumped through the phone when I mentioned this to him–to agree to do it, I mean, not because he has strange, electrical superpowers that allow him to travel across phone lines–and we were off and running. Brian and Joss met and discussed what they wanted to do, and fleshed out a long proposal of where the series would go, and Angel: After the Fall was born.
How important was it to have “After the Fall” be the canonical continuation of the “Angel” characters?
Ryall: I think that’s the only way it could be done or should be done. No one would want to read what would essentially be nicely illustrated fan-fiction that presumed to tell a story that Joss had in his mind, and we wouldn’t have wanted to presume to tell a tale that wasn’t ours to tell.
Which characters will fans see in “After the Fall”?
Ah-hah! I see how this goes–you throw me a few innocuous questions and hope that by this point in, I’ll get so comfortable that I blurt out “we bring Tara back from the dead even though she wasn’t a character on this show and Cordelia is alive again and married to Connor’s ghost!,” is that it? Well, I ain’t falling for it, my man.
But… I can promise you that you’ll see Angel quite a bit. And we’ve already revealed that Connor plays a big role in this series. And there’s a very good chance that a certain blondie-bear vampire with a soul will show up (since he’s already been shown to be the focus of issue 2’s cover, that’s a safe bet), but there will be lots of other familiar faces that appear in ways people won’t be expecting, too.
– Matt Price
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