The first volume in the series might have felt like a bit of a jump from the very end of the series, but Whedon and his team has produced a series of vignettes that explains what happened to each of the major characters (as well as the city's citizens) the night Los Angeles fell to the forces of Hell. What set them up on the path that led them to make the choices they have made?

The hardest part of the end of the series was that it just ended with a cliffhanger. Angel and his friends were literally just taking up arms to fight the incoming darkness. There was no indication of what was going to happen to them and to the city at large.

This volume does a great job of explaining how they all went off on their own paths. It captures their feelings and their choices.

Each vignette is beautifully presented with a different illustrator. It appeared to me that the style of art was perfectly chosen to go with each character and their individual tale.

The only tough part about this volume is that it really just looked back to connect the dots. It did not really bring the story that had started in the first volume forward. This was particularly rough since the last one ended with a cliffhanger of its own.