Well, I’ve decided that I’m done with Angel, since I was never that big a fan of the character in the first place, and I need to save my money. But I wanted to first read the exciting two-parter about Drusilla, which is partially written about Drusilla’s actress, Juliet Landau. Sometime after her last appearance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Drusilla was found injured and subsequently taken in by a mental instution, where the doctors believe that she is delusional about her vampireness. She is totally nuts, but that’s one thing she’s not nuts about. No amount of medicines work on her either. She ends up killing the one doctor who believes that all the manpower they use on her is a waste, and she ends up killing basically everyone in the institution. So now, she’s loose. However, one of the guards in the hospital seemed to have some idea of who she really was…
I have not been a fan of Brian Lynch’s work on Angel basically from day one, but maybe Juliet Landau’s superb understanding of the character has overriden his bad writing skills. This issue was extremely fun, especially seeing how all the doctors reacted to her. She’s still as bonkers as ever, and Landau definitely understands her own character after all that time working with her. As for Franco Urru, his work is a lot better than what he normally produces, to the point that I can actually recognize Landau in Drusilla’s face in some of the panels. Basically, this is a fun little romp with Drusilla that is well worth me waiting two more issues to cancel my subscription. Fans of the character will love this story. I’m just so glad that Lynch wasn’t writing this by himself, or it might have just been “a colossal waste of time.”
Plot: 8.3 Art: 7.9 Dialogue: 8.2 Overall: 8.2
