Looking again at Angel Only Human and comparing it to the Angel Aftermath issues, I have to wonder, what the hell happened here? The Angel Season 4 or Angel After the Fall run was fantastic and you can still see that in the issue of Angel Only Human. You have the snappy writing, the characters are right, risky choices are made and yes people look like themselves. Then there’s Angel Aftermath, which looks like it was cobbled together by outsourced labor overseas or deranged fanboys. There’s the ugly art that actually makes George Jeanty’s work on Buffy look good. Everything looks ugly, cheap and poorly done, and you have to guess which character is supposed to be which. Then there’s a ridiculous story involving angels, even though angels and the classic heaven and hell model doesn’t seem to fit into the Buffyverse. All the great work and the positive energy built up by Brian Lynch’s work on After the Fall was squandered by Kelley Armstrong in Aftermath, discarding the usual characters and surrounding Angel with third rankers we don’t give a damn about, not to mention a jaguarwoman. Angel Only Human shows what Lynch and Urru can still do. IDW would be doing the series a favor by dumping Angel Aftermath and avoiding any disasters like that again.