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[Buffyversefantic]

Covers and Solicitation for Angel & Faith # 10

http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=45505

[Buffyversefantic]

Some tweets from Christos Gage about Angel & Faith # 10.

https://twitter.com/#!/Christosgage

[Shade of Pale]

The mysterious ladies bear a passing resemblance to Faith and Buffy, which is kind of confusing. Also, it may sound churlish, but rather than see ideas for the Ripper series used in Angel and Faith, I'd sort of prefer for Dark Horse to do a Ripper mini-series or two and really showcase Giles. You can never have too much Giles, imho.

[Buffyversefantic]

Preview pages for Angel & Faith # 7.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36779

[Jean-Vic]

I've always enjoyed the Angel/Dru dynamic. Angelus' most wicked deed personified. What I've always found interesting, however, is Angel's behaviour towards her. He is her sire. He is far older than her, more powerful and more able in the fighting stakes. Yet, despite numerous encounters with her, he won't kill her.

In Buffy Season 2, Angel comes across a very weak, sickly Dru in a park and stops her killing a child. There is no Spike around to deal with, and yet Angel does nothing. He doesn't fight her, nor make any attempt to kill her. He merely tells her to take Spike and leave. Really, though, it is an empty threat, because I'm sure he's made it numerous times since then, though my memory is not perfect. Been a while since I've watched any Buffy/Angel.

I've always liked this reticence on his part, and what it says about him as a person seeking redemption. What is it about her that stops him killing her? Why does he allow her to go on killing when so many others haven't been shown such mercy? Does Angel feel he cannot be her killer when he was her creator? Does he wish to keep her around in the belief that he can never be truly redeemed until he helps her?

I hope her appearance sheds some more light on their relationship, one that is extremly twisted, yet also, at times, sweet in its innocence. Drusilla has a strong connection to only two characters in this universe: Angel and Spike. She is going to affect Spike over on Buffy, surely, and their relationship shall be explored further. I hope the Angel/Dru relationship gets the same treatment.
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[Buffyversefantic]

New tweets from Christos Gage about Angel & Faith # 7.

https://twitter.com/#!/Christosgage

[Buffyversefantic]

More Tweets from Christos Gage.

https://twitter.com/#!/Christosgage

[Double Dutchess]

Thanks Buffyversefantic. I never expected any obvious references, but I'm glad Gage is not going to contradict Brian Lynch's storyline. (I didn't think he would, based on what we've heard from him so far, but you never know.)

[Buffyversefantic]

Christos Gage tweets about current issue he's writing.

https://twitter.com/#!/Christosgage

[Shade of Pale]

[BrianLynch]

I'm surprised. We kinda gave them the perfect set up.

[Shade of Pale]

Agreed - and if Dru is going to make some appearances in the Buffy comic then surely they will have to reference the events of the Spike series there.

[raith]

Well, hopefully they, at the very least, vaguely mention what transpired in the Spike series. It's possible Gage could elaborate on Dru momentarily having a soul which gave her, for the first time in ages, clarity. Rather than being tormented with the presence of a soul, she decided to instead remove the traumas that clouded her mind for so long.

[Jean-Vic]

They don't care about the Spike Series, or Mosaic, or anything IDW did. They're just not going to contradict it.
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[BrianLynch]

Disagree, Jean-Vic, because they ask me questions about it quite a bit.