WOWZERS!!!This was great issue ,glad Lee didnt lose the baby,but am very sad she cant stay with little Jude.The angel wings very cute,boy is he gonna problems finding clothes as he gets older 🙂
I was correct on who did the bombing and the warning(Hooray Me!)However it does make wonder what he is up to.
Boxer sorry to see you go.Yes he wasnt the greatest of people but he was an interesting character.Well ,need to wait for issue 19 and hopefully beyond that!!
FYI –
Fallen Angel #18 was voted cover of the week at Newsarama after a tight battle with New Avengers #1. Congrats to David Lopez & Co.
Hurly burly was really agreat arc, one of the best i have ever read in comics, and i’ll be honest nothing is springing to mind right now that could even possible compete with it. great stuff.
Were there any macbeth references in the last issue?
I must admit i do feel at a bit of a disadvantage, i don’t play chess, so the chess references that have been used throughout thebook are lost on me, maybe i’ll have to learn learn. Also, I’ve never heard of Epoch (not really a huge fan of the bible – or organised religion per se) … so didn’t see that one coming. But it’s still more than holding my interest.
Love the title, love the characters and love the tight story-telling you’re dishing out Mr D. also
Bryn,
Even if you had been a big fan of the Bible, it might not have helped you out with Enoch. The book of Enoch hasn’t been a part of the Bible for hundreds of years.
I promised I’d stick around through issue 18 before deciding whether or not to drop this book. Having read that last issue, I’ve come to the conclusion that “Fallen Angel” just isn’t for me. After a year and a half, I have absolutely no interest in any of the mysteries and subplots. I can’t find a single member of the cast deep enough to hold my interest: Lee in particular is a protagonist I find thoroughly bland and boring, a constant victim of everyone around her (save for those token moments where she gets to prove how tough she is). I’m all for ambivalence and ambiguity, but the Angel herself seems to me such a shallow cipher that her switches from shadowy vigilante to weeping mother just feel like an artificial attempt to get me to sympathize with her.
*shrug* I waited this long because PAD promised me issues 14-18 would make all the difference, that it was his best work and I’d have empathy for Lee coming out of my ears. Having finished reading the last issue, it’s safe to say that as far as I’m concerned, that’s a promise that wasn’t fulfilled.
I do hope the book survives, for its more appreciative readers. But I can’t find a single reason to keep buying/reading “Fallen Angel”: I don’t enjoy it, haven’t done so for quite a while, and this last arc utterly failed to convince me otherwise. *shrug* C’est la vie.
A great, great, great, GREAT issue Peter. It is the first issue I can say I enjoyed from cover to cover.
Beyond that, it is the first issue of “Fallen Angel” I’ll include when I try to get people hooked on your writing.
(Of course, knowing some of the backstory would help, so I’ll have to loan them previous issues – specifically from #12 onward – as well).
You said there was going to be a payoff, and you delivered.
Thank you so much.
I’d just like to congratulate the art team of David Lopez and Fernadon Blanco for having churned out a great book month in month out without missing a beat! So rare these days to have an art team have a 18 consecutive month run without any fill-ins…
Of course, the rest of the creative team have to be thanked for churning out this great book as well! 🙂
This was a very good issue, but I’m quite disappointed that it seems that Lee is not Linda after all.
Linda’s backstory could have added so much depth to Lee’s character.
I feel like I’ve lost Linda all over again.
I’m not disappointed yet — I don’t see any indication that Lee is not Linda. The burnt out attitude Linda “Lee” (the name she adopts in the alternate ‘silver age’ universe) Danvers has at the end of the Supergirl run when she quits fits perfectly, her status as a ‘fallen angel’ might lead to a child with wings (or maybe that’s because of her combination with Juris?) — and all the concern about this not being in the actual DC universe doesn’t seem to have stopped Batman’s guest role in issue #2 (between the bat-ears on the ‘thomas graymalkin’ mask on the cover, to all the little hints in the issue — martial artist, throwing money around, detective work for a ‘drug dealer’?, utility belt gas and gas mask, and most importantly, his tell-tale shadow at the bottom of page 20 — I won’t beat this dead horse any longer). But while it was never needed to explicitly state that it was Batman, and it didn’t detract from the story, this may not hold true for a title character. If everyone’s worried about sales, I think continuing Linda Danvers storyline would certainly boost sales, and not detract from the mythos that is being built here. What about her parents? How would they react to see the darkness in their daughter? They’ve seen it before the merger with Supergirl. And if I’m not mistaken, Linda Danvers daughter, who it seems was initially sent to the future, returned and met up with Klarion the witch boy at the resolution of the “Sins of Youth” storyline. I’m not sure where she went after that, but perhaps she might suddenly show up in Bete Noir as well, probably sans costume as seems to be the direction this town sticks to…
Batman??!!!…ok, i can’t believe I missed that. Need to run home and check my TPB now….
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WOWZERS!!!This was great issue ,glad Lee didnt lose the baby,but am very sad she cant stay with little Jude.The angel wings very cute,boy is he gonna problems finding clothes as he gets older 🙂
I was correct on who did the bombing and the warning(Hooray Me!)However it does make wonder what he is up to.
Boxer sorry to see you go.Yes he wasnt the greatest of people but he was an interesting character.Well ,need to wait for issue 19 and hopefully beyond that!!
FYI –
Fallen Angel #18 was voted cover of the week at Newsarama after a tight battle with New Avengers #1. Congrats to David Lopez & Co.
http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22728
Hurly burly was really agreat arc, one of the best i have ever read in comics, and i’ll be honest nothing is springing to mind right now that could even possible compete with it. great stuff.
Were there any macbeth references in the last issue?
I must admit i do feel at a bit of a disadvantage, i don’t play chess, so the chess references that have been used throughout thebook are lost on me, maybe i’ll have to learn learn. Also, I’ve never heard of Epoch (not really a huge fan of the bible – or organised religion per se) … so didn’t see that one coming. But it’s still more than holding my interest.
Love the title, love the characters and love the tight story-telling you’re dishing out Mr D. also
Bryn,
Even if you had been a big fan of the Bible, it might not have helped you out with Enoch. The book of Enoch hasn’t been a part of the Bible for hundreds of years.
I promised I’d stick around through issue 18 before deciding whether or not to drop this book. Having read that last issue, I’ve come to the conclusion that “Fallen Angel” just isn’t for me. After a year and a half, I have absolutely no interest in any of the mysteries and subplots. I can’t find a single member of the cast deep enough to hold my interest: Lee in particular is a protagonist I find thoroughly bland and boring, a constant victim of everyone around her (save for those token moments where she gets to prove how tough she is). I’m all for ambivalence and ambiguity, but the Angel herself seems to me such a shallow cipher that her switches from shadowy vigilante to weeping mother just feel like an artificial attempt to get me to sympathize with her.
*shrug* I waited this long because PAD promised me issues 14-18 would make all the difference, that it was his best work and I’d have empathy for Lee coming out of my ears. Having finished reading the last issue, it’s safe to say that as far as I’m concerned, that’s a promise that wasn’t fulfilled.
I do hope the book survives, for its more appreciative readers. But I can’t find a single reason to keep buying/reading “Fallen Angel”: I don’t enjoy it, haven’t done so for quite a while, and this last arc utterly failed to convince me otherwise. *shrug* C’est la vie.
A great, great, great, GREAT issue Peter. It is the first issue I can say I enjoyed from cover to cover.
Beyond that, it is the first issue of “Fallen Angel” I’ll include when I try to get people hooked on your writing.
(Of course, knowing some of the backstory would help, so I’ll have to loan them previous issues – specifically from #12 onward – as well).
You said there was going to be a payoff, and you delivered.
Thank you so much.
I’d just like to congratulate the art team of David Lopez and Fernadon Blanco for having churned out a great book month in month out without missing a beat! So rare these days to have an art team have a 18 consecutive month run without any fill-ins…
Of course, the rest of the creative team have to be thanked for churning out this great book as well! 🙂
This was a very good issue, but I’m quite disappointed that it seems that Lee is not Linda after all.
Linda’s backstory could have added so much depth to Lee’s character.
I feel like I’ve lost Linda all over again.
I’m not disappointed yet — I don’t see any indication that Lee is not Linda. The burnt out attitude Linda “Lee” (the name she adopts in the alternate ‘silver age’ universe) Danvers has at the end of the Supergirl run when she quits fits perfectly, her status as a ‘fallen angel’ might lead to a child with wings (or maybe that’s because of her combination with Juris?) — and all the concern about this not being in the actual DC universe doesn’t seem to have stopped Batman’s guest role in issue #2 (between the bat-ears on the ‘thomas graymalkin’ mask on the cover, to all the little hints in the issue — martial artist, throwing money around, detective work for a ‘drug dealer’?, utility belt gas and gas mask, and most importantly, his tell-tale shadow at the bottom of page 20 — I won’t beat this dead horse any longer). But while it was never needed to explicitly state that it was Batman, and it didn’t detract from the story, this may not hold true for a title character. If everyone’s worried about sales, I think continuing Linda Danvers storyline would certainly boost sales, and not detract from the mythos that is being built here. What about her parents? How would they react to see the darkness in their daughter? They’ve seen it before the merger with Supergirl. And if I’m not mistaken, Linda Danvers daughter, who it seems was initially sent to the future, returned and met up with Klarion the witch boy at the resolution of the “Sins of Youth” storyline. I’m not sure where she went after that, but perhaps she might suddenly show up in Bete Noir as well, probably sans costume as seems to be the direction this town sticks to…
Batman??!!!…ok, i can’t believe I missed that. Need to run home and check my TPB now….