The series may always be about Angel [David Boreanaz] finding his niche in the modern world and becoming content with his past. But all the supporting characters, who continue to be added to with caring and depth, struggle with their own identities. No one is left without scars in the Joss-verse. The underlying fact that everyone seems to have father-issues is a recurring joke among cast and crew. Knowing how closely he guards his future plans we opted to ask Joss, looking at a possible future which of the characters did he think we would least likely recognize from their current self? "Of a possible future? Well, Fred [Amy Acker] might actually get a little saner," he joked but quickly got serious as he added, "I think Wesley [Alexis Denisof] is somebody who's really gonna get to blossom. I think Cordelia [Charisma Carpenter] already has," he admitted, "in a sense that she has become a responsible person and we're gonna see more of that. But Wesley is a guy who's always been a bit of a buffoon and now that he's been given control of the group I think, more and more, we'll start to see him as we did at the end of last season where he is really a force to be reckoned with." Joss couldn't help but insert, "Hopefully he'll still fall down occasionally because Alexis is really funny when he does that."

"I knew early on that I wanted to be an artist." ~ JW

Heading into the current chapter of Joss, the Compendium we commented on the resounding approval from fans worldwide in regards to his first foray into comics with FRAY. Succeeding with a richer and more deeply written story lines and character involvement he may or may not wish to apply that to the new Angel comics series he's also penning or he may go into yet another creative direction. "The Angel comic series is a different animal," he explains. "It's less 'completely my baby', you know it's very collaborative with me and Brett [Matthews] and the mandate was really, 'Let's make a comic book out of Angel instead of a drawn version of the show.' " The first Angel comic series found a devoted following much as the Buffy comics have and with 17 successful issues under its belt why would Joss decide to try and add a little edge to the book? "Because we felt like [previous writers] felt a little constricted and were sort of doing what the show did; hanging out in the office and stuff like that. And I'm like, 'It's a comic book and he can jump from rooftop to rooftop and we can have a twenty-foot lava monster, which we can't afford on the show, so let's start building it like a comic. Let's try and give it that kind of energy, let's make it a little sexier in that sense.'

"Writing comics is just extraordinary fun . . . you just feel like, 'I'm a genius!' "

Once again, Joss seems to have found an element he loves. He has always had a love for comics but now that he's getting to sink his own teeth into it is he getting the thrill from the experience that he hoped he would? "I'm loving life," he enthused. "Writing comics is just extraordinary fun and when you get art back from guys like Karl, you just feel like, 'I'm a genius!' It's really wonderful. It's like television," he offered, "it's got that constant feedback. Everything you put in you get back. You know when I see the actors doing my work on the TV show like, not 4 years from now with a lot of executives in the way but right away. And the same thing with the comic book, there's no better feeling."