Angel Vol. 1 Reintroduces The Vampire-With-A-Soul: Review

I never watched the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel when they were still on the air. It wouldn’t be until 2010 when I got around to it, when a friend literally refused to talk to me about television until I had watched the seven series of Buffy. Now, said friend was also kind enough to lend me their Netflix account so I could work my way through the 100+ episodes over several months, after which I proceeded to watch all five seasons of Angel. I liked Buffy. I certainly liked certain seasons more than others, but I viewed the work as a core influence. However, Angel… I loved Angel. I loved all five seasons and devoured those episodes in a fervor. I think it was the neo-noir aesthetic, the flipped script focusing on those who were occult rather than those who hunted the occult. Although, I will say I liked the musical episode of Buffy more than the Puppet episode of Angel. (Both are great.) That was a decade ago. It’s been more than two decades since the original pilot of Buffy and a decade and a half for Angel, and I don’t remember as much about the character or story line as I thought. Broadstrokes, for sure, but the detail are fuzzy. Angel: Being Human

Now I typed all of that to emphasize my history with the characters and to make sure that those reading understand that reading Angel, Vol. 1 felt like a homecoming. Things are different, but the core, the essence of Angel is still very much intact with this version, brought to us by Bryan Hill and Gleb Melnikov….