A review by jaironside
Angel Vol. 1: Being Human by Gabriel Cassata, Bryan Edward Hill, Joss Whedon, Dan Panosian, Roman Titov, Gleb Melnikov

3.0

I had an easier time with this than the Buffy reboot in some ways, because it's so far off Angel's origin story that it wasn't competing for space with my head canon. They've steered away from from the Romany curse here (as some with Romany connections, I found this didn't actually improve anything. Better, more thoroughly researched representation would have been better IMO.) Anyway, Angel is less directionlessly bad here, instead being more focused and big scheme evil (remember in the series that he's far more like a serial killer and murder is his art, which actually makes him more terrifying) which I found a little trite. And consequently he seems even more irritatingly whiny with a soul - seriously how many times can a character say they deserve torment in one graphic novel? So the ambivalence continues. By and large I enjoyed it but more as a light diversion than a serious competitor to the original.