One of the best parts about being a vampire is you can live forever. But even that’s put to the test went you put yourself in danger – especially, when it’s something the scope of World War 1.
Created by Joss Whedon, the character of Angel was born in the television series Buffy The Vampire Slayer and blossomed in his own self-title series. When it finished, the vampire found new life in comics. In addition to a regular ongoing series at IDW, Angel has also starred in several miniseries including the recent Angel : Blood & Trenches mini by cartoonist John Byrne.
Byrne is one of the most well known creators in the comics medium, having worked on nearly every major American superhero including the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Superman and even co-wrote the first issue of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. In recent years he’s called IDW his home, doing work on the creator-owned series FX and several Star Trek stories. But in this, his first jaunt into the Whedon-verse, Byrne takes the character of Angel back to the early 1900s to explore vampires in World War I. This story combines the creator’s interest in the era, with Angel and Byrne’s own deep familial connection with the war itself.
In Angel : Blood & Trenches, Angel is on the trail of experiments by the WW1-era Germans in the use of vampires as soldiers in their attempted conquest of Europe. The series is a rollicking adventure on its own, as well as hinting back to why Angel was so reluctant to work with the U.S. during WW2 as seen in the episode “Why We Fight”.
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