Friday, March 17, 2006

Comics Rundown: Fell #4


NIXON NUN MUST DIE.

Not buying this book is inexcusable. It's two dollars. It's a complete story. And it will hurt you. This book will hurt you, because after a few issues of the punishment that this series dishes out, you will realize two things:

1. People hurt other people.
2. There's nothing you can do about it.

Detective Fell has those steaming facts and a floating corpse shoved in his face in #4. And cuts a deal (more like a threat) with Snowtown:

"Every time you take one... I'm going to take one back."

Greasy crime fiction, with no real answers, based on real events that Warren Ellis dug up on some awful, mindbreaking newsfeed.

Templesmith offering up foggy streets that look like they want to mug you and cut your face off.

The format works. The story feels satisfying when you get to the end. Nine panels per page. I'm excited for Matt Fraction's Casanova series using the same price/format.

Two dollars.

No excuse.

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