If After the Fall does a strong job recreating its source's pulpish wit, after three issues, it remains to be seen whether Whedon and company can also be true to the original series' more emotionally somber moments (cf., the death of Cordelia Chase, the eviction of Winifred Burkle's soul). Though Angel's milieu has never seemed as resonant as the one Whedon created for his Buffy, the Vampire Slayer - adolescent hell is more experientially recognizable than urban Hell, after all - it has had its strong dramatic moments. Of all the graphic novel offshoots to shoot off from this entertaining teleseries, After the Fall is truest to its world, but we've still got an ish or two to go, I suspect, before we'll know whether this comic book series can fully capture its vampire hero's wounded heart.