The new issue of Angel & Faith, guest-starring Harmony and Clem, despite being a fun comedy issue, includes some serious considerations, including one big and significant retcon of events from #35 of season 8, which has upset many people who see it as an attempt to whitewash Angel for his actions as Twilight.

Ironically, many at the same time ( Read more... )

I should have really posted one of these reviews a month ago, and the other 2 weeks ago. In fact, parts of the text here is what I posted back then and in the meantime on BF and other forums. I intended to expand those into real reviews and post them on LJ and Dreamwidth, but due to a combination of being really busy and getting distracted with ( Read more... )

My belated thoughts about Angel & Faith #2 (that I didn't post before for no other reason than that I didn't find time for it).

I'm more ambivalent about this issue than about #1, because there are things I really loved, and some things I was bothered by - in the sense that they show how the series might go wrong. However, it all depends on ( Read more... )

So, finally, after a long wait, three preview pages, lots of craziness in the fandom caused by spoilers and a couple of weird early reviews and people's general tendencies to read their own preconceptions and obsessive peeves into the text and several really bizarre quasi-controversies with some things blown way out of proportion, I finally read ( Read more... )