Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic)

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Strange Bedfellows


Publisher IDW Publishing
Format Soft cover, 104 pages, Full color
Publication dates March 2002
Number of issues Angel #4, 10-11, 17, + TV Guide short
Creative team
Writer(s) Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski
Penciller(s) Eric Powell, Christian Zanier, Marcin Mariano
Inker(s) Eric Powell, Andy Owens, Derek Fridolfs
Colourist(s) Guy Major, Lee Loughridge

Strange Bedfellows is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Angel television series.

Contents

[edit] Story description

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Angel and his various sidekicks must face a vampire brothel, in which the bloodsucking madam tries to lure Angel into unholy congress with his own kind, demon home-invaders and other dark forces.

[edit] Angel #4

Comic title: The Changeling Wife
In Los Angeles, things can often not be what they seem. Angel attempts to help a woman who is trapped in an abusive marriage, however Angel is not seeing where the danger really lies

[edit] Angel #10

Comic title: Strange Bedfellows, chapter 1/Love for Sale, part one
A Californian congressman is robbed and killed by a woman of the night, a front-page sleaze scandal emerges with a scary twist: Cordy has a vision of the congressman just before his death, it seems the prostitute who murdered him was not human. Angel must find the inhuman assassin.

[edit] Angel #11

Comic title: Strange Bedfellows, chapter 2/Love for Sale, part two
The investigation into the killing of Congressman Charles continues as as Detective Kate Lockley becomes involved in the case, Angel and Wesley continue their attempt to discover the vampire-prostitute known on the streets by the name of Candy. They find a vampire bordello controlled by an ancient and seductive vampire has her eyes on Angel. He must face both a large group of vampires, and a battle the much stronger force of lust.

[edit] Angel #17

Comic title: Cordelia special
The Angel Investigations office has been blown up after the events of To Shanshu in L.A.. The dark forces have discovered where Angel and Wesley live and are now forced to stash their demonic items at Cordy's haunted apartment. Dennis makes his presence felt.

[edit] Trivia

  • Characters include: Angel, Cordelia, Doyle, and Wesley
  • TV Guide short originally in black and white, colored for the TPB.
  • Strange Bedfellows is the largest and final Angel TPB of Dark Horse's Angel volume one comic series.

[edit] Continuity

[edit] Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon
Buffy/Angel comics such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy merchandise.

[edit] Timing

  • Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
Location, time
(if known)
Buffyverse chronology: Fall 1999 - December 1999
(non-canon = italic)
L.A. 1999 Angel comic: Doyle: Spotlight
L.A. 1999 A1.01 City of
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.01 The Freshman
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.02 Living Conditions
L.A. 1999 A1.02 Corrupt (unaired)
L.A. 1999 A1.02 Lonely Hearts
L.A. 1999 A1.00 Unaired Angel pilot
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Not Forgotten
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.03 The Harsh Light of Day
L.A. 1999 A1.03 In the Dark
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.04 Fear, Itself
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Blood of Carthage
L.A. 1999 Angel graphic novel: Surrogates
L.A. 1999 Angel comic: Strange Bedfellows story, Angel #4
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy video game: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Game Boy Color)
Sunnydale, 1999 Tales of the Slayer: All That You Do Comes Back..
L.A. 1999 A1.04 I Fall to Pieces
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.05 Beer Bad
L.A. 1999 A1.05 Rm w/a Vu
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy books: Lost Slayer series
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.06 Wild at Heart
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Oz
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy book: Oz: Into the Wild
L.A. 1999 A1.06 Sense & Sensitivity
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.07 The Initiative
L.A. 1999 A1.07 Bachelor Party
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Close to the Ground
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Soul Trade
L.A. 1999 Angel graphic novel: Earthly Possessions
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Redemption
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Shakedown
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Hollywood Noir
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Avatar
L.A. 1999 Angel book: Bruja
L.A. 1999 Angel book: The Summoned
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.08 Pangs
L.A. 1999 A1.08 I Will Remember You
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.09 Something Blue
L.A. 1999 A1.09 Hero
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.10 Hush
L.A. 1999 A1.10 Parting Gifts
Sunnydale, 1999 B4.11 Doomed
L.A. 1999 A1.11 Somnambulist
  • Here are all the Angel comics listed chronologically:
Angel comics


Comics in order of Buffyverse chronology

Doyle: Spotlight | Surrogates | Earthly Possessions | The Changeling Wife | Hunting Ground | Love for sale | Past Lives | Cordelia special | Autumnal | Long Night's Journey | Spike: Old Times | Spike: Old Wounds | Spike: Lost and Found | Spike: Shadow Puppets | Gunn: Spotlight | Wesley: Spotlight | Illyria: Spotlight | Connor: Spotlight | Spike: Asylum | The Curse | Old Friends

Comics with unknown/varying chronology

Spike vs Dracula #1-5 | Masks | Auld Lang Syne

[edit] See also


Buffyverse & related topics
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