Angel season 11 isn’t getting any better. This volume they’ve brought on artist Zé Carlos, who is a slight improvement but draws the most generic versions of these characters possible that don’t look anything like their real counterparts. Fred looks like generic cute woman, Darla looks like Harmony, and Angel looks like he belongs in the old 90s comics or Witchblade/similar. The story isn’t much better— Angel & Fred go forward in time and end up on a boat with Angelus & Darla, whose actions actually were the right ones for once, so of course our intrepid heroes fuck it up. Honestly, more than anything, this whole arc/season is BORING. Bechko hasn’t gotten any better at writing these characters (at least in season 10, Gischler had Angel & Faith down relatively okay?) and I can’t believe I’m taking the time away from Buffy Season 11 to read this, but I’m just going to finish it and be done with it.

Scott Fischer’s cover art of Angel & ship-dress!Darla is absolutely gorgeous. Nothing else here holds up to that— not even his other covers, to be completely honest.