Fantastic interview and some great looking art from Messina. I am super excited about Only Human and Eddie's character design is just really cool looking. Next few months should be good for Angel.

Wyndam_ | July 28, 06:35 CET

Hmm. I like the idea that Eddie will be developed separately. I'm sure it will help not having to be in the shadow of other, well-established characters in the Angelverse at first. Here's to hoping it works out! Speaking of out, I wonder if Eddie will be the first long-term out gay male character in the Buffyverse. A man can dream...

CowboyCliche | July 28, 10:38 CET

Just as long as he doesn't become the Angelverse's Poochie. The fandom is somewhat ambivalent/borderline hostile to new characters being introduced into the comics.

Simon | July 28, 10:43 CET

those pages sold me. that was some good looking stuff.

espalier | July 28, 13:24 CET

Great interview and loved the preview pages.

Buffyfantic | July 28, 13:30 CET

Eddie Hope at least looks cool. Let's hope he's got an interesting personality as well.

Invisible Green | July 28, 14:47 CET

Which new comic-introduced characters have the fandom generally not liked ? I've heard that some of the newbies in "Aftermath" were unwelcome, but then you look at Buffy Season 8 and everyone seemed to have appreciated Renae. Satsu's reception was mostly warm too, no ?

Did people who hadn't read Spike: Asylum like Betta George ? Maybe not right away, but once "After the Fall" concluded ? There's a lot the comic gets away with that I can't see working on screen, even with a bigger budget for effects (or he could've been a puppet).

Kris | July 28, 17:05 CET

Spider, Satsu, the new characters from Aftermath.

Simon | July 28, 17:49 CET

Congrats on the interview Pat. Very interesting. I love Messina's work. Cant wait to read all these.

angeliclestat | July 28, 19:26 CET

I'm leaning toward ambivalent myself. I'll give it a chance but I'm not exicited about it.

resa | July 28, 19:43 CET

There's a new write-up of IDW's panel at Comicbookresources, with new details about the main Angel comic and Spike's spinoff series:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22293

Perseo | July 28, 20:52 CET

Spider was odd and went unexplained for a good long while(why she spoke that way, what she was supposed to be), but such a non-entity, barely there in the comics to a degree that she just didn't bother me. Just one out of Spike's entourage that happened to get named. The only people I can see getting annoyed at her are overprotective Spike fangirls (I dunno why though, 'cause despite being capable of attachment, he's shown himself to be a horndog a lot of the time too--witness banging Harmony as soon as he's corporeal in Angel Season 5--so random demon fling isn't surprising).

Kris | July 29, 10:37 CET