Dark Angel

While I remember the original “Dark Angel” series being published (with legal issues resulting in the book’s first title “Hell’s Angel” getting removed), and that Bryan Hitch worked on the book, I knew nothing about the character prior to reading “Revolutionary War: Dark Angel.” I appreciate the work that Kieron Gillen and Dietrich Smith put in for introducing Dark Angel to new readers like me, but at the end of the day this is a comic that probably is more entertaining if you were already a fan. “Revolutionary War: Dark Angel” has Gillen spend a fair amount of time introducing the character to the readership; the deal with Mephisto that her father made, the things she has to do in order to pay off the debt, the fluctuating nature of her power levels. If this was the first issue of an all-new “Dark Angel” series, I would have been a little more impressed at how much back story was crammed into this comic because it presumably would be able to move forward from here unencumbered with