Season 8 #1 starts a year and a half post-Chosen. And yeah, After the Fall exists all within a matter of moments following Not Fade Away. Thing is - IDW hasn't caught up to the Season 8 comics. So the motivation for Angel-as-Twilight hasn't been established yet. And I don't think Joss is overly concerned with lining up his story with IDW's. I think he's co-opted Angel for Season 8 and I speculated in the past that Joss helped out with AtF as a behind-the-scenes deal so that he could use Angel (and Spike) in Season 8. The Angel license IDW owns would prevent him from doing so, but because he loaned them his name (which equals sales) and helped plot out After the Fall (which is the only truly godo thing they have going imo), he earned back the usage of some choice characters. So far, Angel appears to be used here. Not sure who else might appear. I'm hoping for Spike and I'm hoping it's in the final five issues written by Joss. Because Spike!Joss is my favorite Joss - see: Hell's Bells cute scene, end of Beneath You, The Gift, Once More With Feeling, Chosen, even back in Becoming and on and on.
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Season 8 #1 starts a year and a half post-Chosen. And yeah, After the Fall exists all within a matter of moments following Not Fade Away. Thing is - IDW hasn't caught up to the Season 8 comics. So the motivation for Angel-as-Twilight hasn't been established yet. And I don't think Joss is overly concerned with lining up his story with IDW's. I think he's co-opted Angel for Season 8 and I speculated in the past that Joss helped out with AtF as a behind-the-scenes deal so that he could use Angel (and Spike) in Season 8. The Angel license IDW owns would prevent him from doing so, but because he loaned them his name (which equals sales) and helped plot out After the Fall (which is the only truly godo thing they have going imo), he earned back the usage of some choice characters. So far, Angel appears to be used here. Not sure who else might appear. I'm hoping for Spike and I'm hoping it's in the final five issues written by Joss. Because Spike!Joss is my favorite Joss - see: Hell's Bells cute scene, end of Beneath You, The Gift, Once More With Feeling, Chosen, even back in Becoming and on and on.