Well it’s back to Spike After the Fall, the part of Los Angeles that has gone to hell and revolves all around Spike or parts of him anyway. Spike is in a cellar with the rotting moaning corpses of the people he tried to save, being tortured, enslaved and otherwise abused for a month or so by female demon insectoids while Illyria is locked in a box. And if you have issues with lavishly illustrated pictures of corpses, this issue of Spike After the Fall #3 probably isn’t for you.

Meanwhile with the proliferation of Slayers, they’ve become ridiculously easy to kill. Even with minimal training Buffy was pretty tough. Meanwhile in this issue Non casually kills a slayer and Gunn takes on three slayers at a time. In Buffy Season 8 slayers do die, but they don’t die this uselessly or casually. Gunn does meet up with Non, for no real reason. Nor is there any real reason why Gunn is so formidable. Gunn the human was a decent fighter, but vampires seem to gain strength with time and Gunn is fresh. He certainly should not be able to take on three slayers at once or Non herself, who seems to be able to take on slayers, Illyria, Spike and anything else.

Overall Spike After the Fall Issue 3 has Spike hanging around with rotting corpses, Non meeting up with Gunn, Spike and Illyria taking on Non, only to have Connor show up to the rescue. Basically if we had skipped Issue 3 altogether, we would have virtually the same story at the end of Issue 2, except that this time Spike and Illyria won for some reason. It’s not that Spike isn’t entertaining, because he loosely is, but every issue of Spike After the Fall serves to remind you that it has no real reason for existing, except to serve as appetizers for the next issue of Angel After the Fall.