IDW Publishing announced that it will expand its hit comic series Angel: After the Fall with special interim issues, a new spinoff miniseries and new artists. The series, which picks up the story of the TV series Angel from the end of the fifth season, has sold out several first printings of its five issues so far. Issues six, seven and eight will begin a special three-part stories-within-the-story adventure, "First Night," IDW said.

Issue six looks at Spike (featuring art by David Messina), Connor (art by Stephen Mooney) and Lorne (art by industry legend John Byrne). All the stories in the issues will feature a framing sequence starring Betta George (the breakout star of the Spike: Asylum miniseries), illustrated by Tim Kane.

Spike will get his own miniseries in July, Spike: After the Fall, written and illustrated by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru. The four-part series begins in July and picks up Spike from the end of "First Night" and explores his changing relationship with Illyria.