 Later, to make it up to IDW, Whedon and Allie granted permission to use Willow (IDW only has rights to "Angel" characters) in Lynch's ongoing series, "Spike".However, Whedon requested oversight of the character's actions within the "Spike" series.Consequently, this leads to a bridging between the continuities of the Dark Horse "Buffy" series and the IDW "Angel" and "Spike" series (of ambiguous continuity) because the first arc of the "Spike" series acts as a prequel to the "Twilight" and "Last Gleaming" arcs of "Season Eight".