Creative Staff:
Script: Victor Gischler
Art: Will Conrad
Colors: Michelle Madsen
Letters: Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt
What They Say:
“Lost and Found Part Four”
Faith decided to stay in the employ of Deepscan when she found out that her next mission concerned the missing Riley Finn—a guy with whom she has a past. Now, Faith and a team of Slayers search the South American jungle for Riley, his wife, and a missing tycoon, Walt Zane. In London’s Magic Town, Angel does his best to aid the people transformed by the magical virus he helped cause—currently he’s occupied with the request from an old Wiccan friend, Amy Madison.
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
These characters always think they have every situation covered, every move planned. The problem is that they don’t. They’re thinking one move ahead, maybe, and the enemy has a step up on them. A theme, if you can even call it that, throughout Buffy and Angel is that there’s really not much of a plan ever. They run in, they kill bad guys, they get out hopefully unscathed.
We haven’t reached the moment of conclusion for either Angel or Faith in this issue, but we’re certainly close. Something big is going to happen in the next issue for both Angel and Faith. Thus far, the comic has only been ramping up and we’ve finally reached a climax. Faith’s saved Riley and Angel’s squaring off against Amy.
The decision on both sides is a moral one, Angel trying to prevent something bad and Faith trying to right what’s wrong. Both, as usual, paths of redemption. There’s not much to talk about in this issue because a large part of it was just action, stymied by the fact that there’s two main characters and two main stories in one comic.
There’s a shot on page six-ish, when Angel is fighting Amy and he gets frozen, and I absolutely love it. Artwork like this makes me excited to read comics instead of watch live action TV or movies, and is probably why I like animation so much. Admiring drawings like this is something I could do all day.
In Summary:
As a transitionary issue before the big ending, I really liked this. It left woefully little to talk about because they’re trying to do so much in 20 pages when this could really use two separate comics or at least 30 pages. But it’s still ramping up to something really exciting between Angel and Amy and Faith and Riley.
Content Grade: B
Art Grade: A
Released By: Dark Horse
Release Date: December 3, 2014
MSRP: $3.50