FALLEN ANGEL RAVES

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Rave reviews for “Fallen Angel #3” are up on silverbulletcomicbooks.com and Randy Lander’s section in thefourthrail.com. The reaction to the series is very gratifying.

PAD

16 comments on “FALLEN ANGEL RAVES”

  1. I agree that issue #3 is the most intriguing plot (in part because it’s the first part of an arc), and definitely the best illustrated.

    Congrats on a good ish, Peter. 🙂

  3. I love her costume. 😛

    So far, this is one of my favorite series on the shelves right now, and I take every chance I can to recommend it to others.

    I’m definitely intruiged as to why.. someone.. would claim to have a cure to her disease, only to tear her apart. But I guess I’ll get my answers to that in the arc! 😛

    Thanks David. Continue kicking ášš.

  5. I’ve bought the three issues, and while it’s interesting, I don’t get it. I appreciate Mr. David writing in a very serious tone; I always knew he could do it, but it’s scary for a writer to write completely different than his regular best-selling work. He faced the fear and did it anyway, and I celebrate that aspect of his work.

    My only problem is that “Fallen Angel” seems to be film noir without the film noir. Noir is usually about human guilt, and people suffering the terrible vengeance of Fate for minor transgressions. There’s guilt, on behalf of almost everybody in the book, but the vengeance doesn’t seem to be too terrible – except on the Fallen Angel. She’s as hard-boiled and as driven by restrictive personal morality as Sam Spade, but she seems to be suffering the most emotional pain of anybody in the book. And she hasn’t done anything to deserve it. Either this is some vast misworking of the film noir ethic, or the God in the Fallen Angel universe is more erratic and capricious with judgement than in ours.

  6. I’ve bought the three issues, and while it’s interesting, I don’t get it. I appreciate Mr. David writing in a very serious tone; I always knew he could do it, but it’s scary for a writer to write completely different than his regular best-selling work. He faced the fear and did it anyway, and I celebrate that aspect of his work.

    Did you ever read The Death of Jean DeWolf?

    Sachs and Violens?

    How about his Trilogy in the B5 universe?

    And there were several issues of the Hulk that expressed this extremely well.

    Just because his humor is prevalent, does not mean he is afraid to show a serious side.

    Travis

  7. “My only problem is that “Fallen Angel” seems to be film noir without the film noir. Noir is usually about human guilt, and people suffering the terrible vengeance of Fate for minor transgressions.”

    Noir fiction doesn’t merely constrict itself to minor transgressions. Where’d you get that misguided notion?

    KET

  9. This was to be the last issue I was going to pick up as I did not really enjoy the first 2 issues.

    But I definitely liked this one and will remain for a couple more issues.

    Nice one David

  10. PAD, why are you surprised? The book is good. As the man with the mustache once said, “‘Nuff said.”

  11. Even though I’ve been trying to cut back on my ever-more-expensive comics habit as of late, I think FALLEN ANGEL, like GOTHAM CENTRAL and THE LEGION, is one I won’t be able to drop. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect regarding the fate of Lee’s student, but… dang. I wasn’t expecting _that._ The art continues to get stronger and more atmospheric by the issue. My only complaints: Inspector Slate looked a bit too similar to Doc Juris’s visiting business associate, and I’m not quite clear on what happened the first time Lee flexed her TK powers– was that her or the mysterious Beast bringing the elevator car down on top of her?

  12. Hey, PAD,

    Are you getting good buzz about FALLEN ANGEL from your editors?

    The week LAB RATS #3 came out is when John Byrne posted a message that Mike Carlin had told him that LAB RATS would be cancelled soon.

  13. Travis said:

    “Did you ever read The Death of Jean DeWolf?

    Sachs and Violens?

    How about his Trilogy in the B5 universe?

    And there were several issues of the Hulk that expressed this extremely well.”

    Yes, but…

    “Just because his humor is prevalent, does not mean he is afraid to show a serious side.”

    Travis, what I was saying was that Mr. D is primarily known for his humor stuff. Even in the examples you mentioned above, there’s humor of a kind you don’t see in most comic book writers.

    But “Fallen Angel” has the deathly seriousness of film noir. You don’t even snicker during “The Strange Case of Martha Ivers” or “Odds Against Tomorrow,” do you? The only thing keeping “Fallen Angel” from being true noir is the lack of oppressive, unstoppable, life-destroying Fate in the story line.

  14. Posted this on the other thread about Fallen Angel #3…

    Having Lee call the mášŧûrbáŧìņg guy a yutz — was that a nod to Farscape? Does that mean Lee is a Farscape fan? Or does yutz come from some real language?

  15. I have a “Fallen Angel” # 2 question that just came up. I hope it doesn’t get ignored.

    Page 20,bottom left panel. Is that Batman’s shadow? Look over the guy’s head.

    Thanks,

    Michael Norton

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