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Scars Publisher Comments: «Warren Ellis' brilliant, six-issue crime opus, Scars, with the stunning art of Jacen Burrows, is available in this deluxe trade paperback with a brand-new cover design! How much of a monster do you have to become to hunt monsters? John Cain has been working Homicide long enough to get hard to pretty much anything; even wrenching personal loss. But everyone has a limit, and today it's gotten too much to bear. Today, he gets assigned something that finally breaks through his defenses - a child killing that hits horribly close to home. Until today, he's been a good cop, a cop who goes by procedure because it's the best way to ensure that scum go to prison. Now, he makes the parents of the victim a chilling promise: he will find the killer using any means necessary. And the killer will not get away with it - no matter what it takes!» + ревью на The X-Axis |
Reload The Big DataBase of Comic Books: «Reload is an espionage thriller that tells the story of Secret Service Agent Chris Royal and his mad scramble to find the woman who assassinated the U.S. President.» Amazon.com: «The story of Reload begins with the assassination of the President of the United States and continues to get more intense. The assassin is incredibly well trained, and someone in the government seems to be covering for her. (And it's not the reason you think.) One secret service agent is stuck between stopping the assassin, who continues to attack government agencies, and the government he's trying to save. Despite the short length of the story, Ellis manages to drop clues as to where he's going, and gives enough characterization that you care about the people involved.» |
MEK The Big DataBase of Comic Books: «Mek is a tale of revenge set in a not-too-distant feature, where robotic enhancement has become the latest trend.» The X-Axis: «Ellis has had an interest in hi-tech body modification for a while now. It was pretty apparent from the earlier concept-driven issues of Transmetropolitan and it's been cropping up increasingly in his weblog. It's certainly an interesting subject. Yes, this sort of extreme body modification is currently the province of a miniscule fringe of, at best, eccentrics. But it can be seen quite legitimately as an extension of existing body-art modifications such as piercing and tattooing, meeting halfway with self-mutilation. It's a potentially fascinating subject. The story sees Mek activist Sarissa Leon returning to her home city to investigate the death of her ex-boyfriend RJ. She's been away for a few years and has drifted out of touch with the Mek culture on the street, where she's now seen as an outsider.» |
Two-Step The X-Axis: «Two-Step is another of Warren Ellis' oddball miniseries for WildStorm. It's an alternate London of 2001, and online cam-girl Rosi Blades is getting bored with her audience and her city. Until she stumbles upon zen gunman Tony Ling, who livens up her day tremendously. This book reads like self-parody. The obsession with London. The chainsmoking lead male in a black suit and tie. The clever-clever internet-oriented mobile technology that Ellis bangs on about incessantly in his blog. The sci-fi pseudo-journalism. The cynical yet broad comedy. It ticks the boxes for an awful lot of Warren Ellis cliches.» |
Википедия:
«Tokyo Storm Warning is a three-issue comic book mini-series published in 2003 by WildStorm imprint Cliffhanger. It was written by Warren Ellis, with art by James Raiz and Andrew Currie.
Plot
The comic takes place in an alternate time line where after the capture of u-234 on 14 May 1945 and the discovery of it's nuclear cargo (intended for the Japanese atomic program in Tokyo) the US decides to use it's first A-Bomb on Tokyo to prevent the Japanese developing their own device. Following this Japan finds itself plagued by giant monsters and the appearance of giant battle robots within the city of Tokyo, over the next sixty years.»
+ ревью на The X-Axis:
«Tokyo Storm Warning is a song by Elvis Costello, and if you ask me, it's not one of his better ones. Goes on for bloody ever, and it's way too repetitive. It's also the name of the latest Cliffhanger miniseries, which writer Warren Ellis describes as "a gentle piss-take of the giant robot genre played straight."
Not a genre I really follow, to be honest. Which leaves me uncertain whether Ellis has undershot on the "piss-take" part of it and just produced a straight pastiche, or whether there's something going on here on a subtle level I don't get. Whichever one it is, the book really just reads to me like a straight giant robot book. Sure, it's got a sense of its own ridiculousness, but doesn't the real thing?»
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