Angel: After the Fall is a comic book published by IDW Publishing. Written by Brian Lynch and plotted with Joss Whedon, the series is a canonical continuation of the Angel television series, and follows the events of that show's final televised season. Angel: After the Fall sees the heroic vampire, Angel, coping with the apocalyptic aftermath of the television series after he took over and subsequently betrayed the demonic law firm, Wolfram & Hart.

The city of Los Angeles has since been sent to hell by Wolfram & Hart as a result of Angel's actions. The series follows his attempts to rescue the people he has sworn to protect. Issue #1 was released on 21 November 2007.

Originally intended as a 13-issue limited series, After the Fall expanded into a 17-issue Angel series and then later turned into an ongoing series, where different writers will come aboard. It continued from the eighteenth issue under the new title of Angel: Aftermath, with new writer Kelley Armstrong. Brian Lynch has confirmed to be back after that for a one-shot Gunn issue (#23) and to join Juliet Landau for a two-issue story about Drusilla (#24 and #25).

In addition to this, Angel: After the Fall has also spawned one spin-off of its own, Spike: After the Fall which bridges the gap between Spike's "First Night" mini-arc and his first appearance in "After the Fall". Following the success of Dark Horse Comics' ongoing series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, an official continuation to the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, series creator Joss Whedon wished to continue the story of Buffy spin-off Angel in the same medium. In September 2006, comic book writer Brian Lynch met Joss Whedon by chance in a restaurant near his home where he told Whedon about the imminent release of a spin-off comic by himself and artist Franco Urru, Spike: Asylum, published by IDW and based upon the character of Spike, a central character in both Buffy and Angel.

To Lynch's surprise, Whedon was thrilled with Spike: Asylum, and Joss felt confident he had found a writer capable of capturing his characters' voices in the new medium, and was impressed with Franco's unique style. Whedon would later email Lynch, asking to meet up with him again in the same restaurant. Working together, the two plotted the events of a now 17-issue limited series for a continuation of the Angel saga, drawing from elements of Whedon's plan for a sixth televised season of Angel and several ideas proposed by Lynch.

Whedon gave Lynch the freedom to write the series himself, only overseeing the project as if in the role of an executive producer.

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