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Ryall · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:01 pm Post subject: Angel: the end times

Hey, everyone--

We approved to print the ANGEL YEARBOOK this week. That's the final new Angel comic we'll do before the license reverts back to the wilds of Oregon.

So while I love the comic and am very proud to have new stories from Jeff Mariotte, Peter David, Scott Tipton and Brian Lynch, as well as a couple other folk new to writing for us but not new to Angel (and me, too, I end things with a final two-pager), it's also bittersweet. Hate to see it end.

And while I do thank all of you (well, not by name, that'd be silly, since many of you don't even use your real names here. After all, no one would really be called "Jean-Vic" in real life, right?) in the comic, I also want to add another note of thanks for all the patronage, support, passion, and opinions you've shared here and elsewhere over the past five years.

I hope you all stick around, both to check out other good IDW books and also to hang out here, and talk about whatever you want, too. This place won't be the same without you, and losing Angel and Spike is already more than I want to bear.

So you're all appreciated for what you've contributed, and you're all welcome to be here as long as you'd like. I'll be checking things here to see how the new comics are received, too, since I won't be reading them myself.

And I hope you like our final efforts with the characters, too. We'll still be doing reprints and deluxe re-packagings and so forth, but ANGEL YEARBOOK is the end for the IDW run.

Now I'm off to go eBay all my Dark Horse BUFFY comics.
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Jean-Vic · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject:

The shout out is appreciated. Very Happy

The feeling may not be mutual, but I shall miss you, good sir.
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Buffyversefantic · Transforumer Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2879

You guys have done an amazing job with the Angel line these past 5/6 years and I am giving you Chris,Mariah and the entire IDW team a standing ovation for their work on the Angel characters. Very Happy

pshand05 · Transforumer Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233 Location: NY

Chris Ryall, you are a class act. The Angel run has been a phenomenal ride from start to finish. I'm more than honored to have been a part of Yearbook, this board, and this discussions we've all had.

Not fade away.
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JSPoole · Slayer Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 83

thanks for everything- I know for a fact that when idw's run ends, so does my time with angel. I dont see dark horse treating it with the respect or dignity the character and license deserves as IDW have.

cannot wait for the final trades, so luckily I still have a few extra months, but thank you again for allowing me to enjoy angel just a little longer after it was cancelled.

Jbreeny · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks to all the staff at IDW who worked on Angel for writing some great stories and actually respecting the characters and the mythology.

Shade of Pale · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:01 am Post subject:

DanielW · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject:

It's been a wild ride, not just fictionally, but meeting interesting people like Pat, Jean-Vic, Deb and all the others.

Double Dutchess · Transforumer Joined: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 1124

I hate to see it end too. It's because of the IDW comics that I became part of the online Buffy/Angelverse fan community; this forum is the first place I started posting and it's still one of my two main hangouts. Reading the comics and discussing them here has been a great pleasure for the most part, so thanks all around from me too, to my fellow posters and to everybody involved in the creation of the comics. The appreciation is totally mutual!

pshand05 · Transforumer Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233 Location: NY

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fluff · I'm kind of a big deal Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 136

I'm new here but I'm going to miss this place a lot =[ I love what you IDW people (writers, artists) have done for Angel and his gang and it's sad to see that you have to give it up =[ Thanks for keeping the story alive all this time!

Bovy · I'm kind of a big deal Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 232

I didn't post here a lot, but I've read much.
So thank you to the IDW team (Ryall, Mariah, Lynch, Tipton) for giving us a peak behind the curtain.
It's still magic, even it you get to know a little about how it's made.

angeliclestat · Transforumer Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 1308

What can I say, but thank you. IDW has kept the Angel franchise going these last 6 years. Lots of ups, couple of downs...but fantastic work which has made a lot of fans very happy.
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