Angel - After the Fall #1: After Buffy, it is the turn of (comic) Angel to get the ‘official’ Whedon treatment and if this first issue is anything to go by, this too (like Buffy) is going to be one hell of a ride. All this I say without even taking into consideration the explosive last page reveal. From Angel to Wolfram & Hart to Conner, (almost) all major Angel series characters get to have their time in the limelight. Sure, they don’t have Spike, but as with Buffy here too I feel this is being done to keep the possibility of a Spike series open. As for the story, well, Los Angeles has gone to hell…literally. Not only have the demon-types moved above ground (and/or into their realm) they have also usurped the traditional ‘human’ mobsters becoming area lords themselves. Angel is still alive, as much as a vampire can be, as are Gunn, Conner, Wesley and others, a couple of them ‘in a fashion’. The artwork as with the story is in a more serious/mature light than Buffy (Season Eight) series. I rather liked it.

Conclusion: I am so getting this series.

RATING: 4/5

Atomic Robo #2: Atomic Robo arrives to the present day, and even though a sizable part of the issue is still based more than half a century in the past even his adventures make the time jump. What this means even though we see flashbacks of AR battling Japanese jets in 1940 we also get to see him duke it out with giant ants in the here and now, and that too while having his ‘team’ quibbling about what got the bugs so big in the first place. Still, it is neither the Japanese nor the bugs that have the most impact. That thing/aspect of the story (and of Robo) is much more human. As for the art, it is as lively as the story and hits the same humor, action and other notes too.

Conclusion: The two issues aren’t particularly related and even though it might not make for depth of plot it does make the series very approachable (for new readers). Also, when each individual story is so fun who cares about anything else.

RATING: 4/5