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Global Frequency #5 - Big Sky

rexpop

15:54 / 02.03.03

Probably the best one of the series so far. While Ellis doesn't quite pull the concepts, it was a welcome change of pace from the previous issues. Gives me hope for the rest of the series.

For the next volume (if it happens) I would hope that Ellis would farm out the writing on each issue as well as the art. Would be curious to see what a Morrison or Moore could do with the concept for an issue.

Comments anyone ?.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

16:45 / 03.03.03

Hands-down the best issue to date. Ellis does some great writing about magic, it's a topic he used to have a passion for. Between that and the art, I think this was the most solid issue so far.

neuepunk

20:47 / 03.03.03

Muth, magic, and snowy Norway. What's not to love?

Mister Six, whom all the girls

16:18 / 06.03.03

Sorry, this is getting to be old news, but I just read it last night.

Muth is great. So great that if he didn't draw this issue, it'd be worthless. I mean, I liked it, don't get me wrong, but... nothing really happened, did it? It's that weird Ellis thing where he writes the aftermath of a story, "you really should have seen all this shit, it was crazy," the story says, but we get people in rooms, doing magic tricks with coins, wrinkling their brows and walking in the snow.

Again, I liked it, but... what did I like?

Whay's so wrong with a comic where people do things and we, the readers, get to see them do it?

I dunno.

Mr Tricks

18:38 / 06.03.03

Ditto Mr. 6,

The Art... FAB. nice Ambiance & charactor interaction... but as I was reading it I kept noticing that as the pages flipped by I wondered how the story would be resolved or if this story would be continued.

felt like neither.

H3ct0r L1m4

04:30 / 07.07.03

this is old old news but since I posted a long reply on the 'You're On...' thread, can't help myself today: while this issue hardscience-talk and art were great, it felt like a Scooby-Doo episode in the end.

FinderWolf

13:48 / 19.08.04

I thought Ellis didn't believe in magic and viewed his comrades Moore and Morrison as a bit deluded? This issue made me think it was Ellis' attempt to make magic more down-to-earth and comprehensible to himself, maybe to figure out why people he liked and respected so much would believe in something he thought was rather loony.

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