BleedingCool: Where he learnt that in August Dark Horse will launch a new Angel & Faith comics series, written by Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs.

This will run alongside Buffy Season Nine, written by Joss Whedon and Andrew Chambliss and drawn by Buffy Season Eight regular Georges Jeanty.

AssignmentX: “If we called it ANGEL – Season 6, that would negate what IDW did,” Allie says. “And if we call it Season 7, then that retroactive say that what IDW did was Season 6. It is really complicated and confusing at once marketing Buffy – Season 9 and ANGEL – Season fill-in-the-blanks. We are generically referring to what we are doing as Season 9 and all of these books fit together. They will have a slight cohesion, maybe more cohesion than when the two shows were on the air but not so much that Spike will be flying his bug ship back and forth from one book to another. It won’t be constant cross-over land.”

What do you think? Are you happy with this turn of events? Rather have seen Faith go on to something else?

PopMatters: Many viewers recognize the on-screen synergy between your Mayor Wilkins and Eliza Dushku’s Faith. Can you talk a little bit about how that chemistry came about during rehearsals and/or during filming?

Harry Groener: Well, she’s such a lovely girl. We got along right from the beginning. She’s very sweet and smart and very professional and really had a handle on the part. It was actually quite simple. There was nothing really to do other than show up and sort of understand. We both enjoyed that relationship and that story line. It was full. There was a lot going on, whether it was written on the page or not. And that’s, again, in the writing. When you can look at a scene and you really get what’s going on, there’s more to play than the written word. And that is a testament to Joss. To the degree that here’s Faith, and she’s this tough, leather-wearing vampire killer [laughs]. At the same time, there’s this wonderful scene when the mayor puts her up in an apartment, and he gives her all that kind of stuff. He buys her this beautiful, little summer frock. He says she’d look so pretty in this and gives it to her. And she actually tries it on and wears it for him as the daughter. For Faith to actually do that and not say, “What the hell’s going on!” The fact that she did that means she did understand their relationship, and there wasn’t something kinky and weird going on. There wasn’t. There wasn’t anything kinky and weird. It was pure, as pure as those two people could be in how they felt about each other, in what she was to him and what he was to her. That was very clear and pure and good—[laughs] on a certain level, right?! But I thought that was very, very sweet for Joss to come up with that [scene with the dress]. It made the story richer. [Dushku] was delightful to work with, and she’s a lovely woman. She made my character very, very easy to play.

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