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Just finished the TPB of the first arc and wow can JHW draw a death scene. Those two shootings in the last issue were among the most beautiful things ever drawn in comics. And it's not just the death scenes that were great, all the art was really fantastic, even the less obviously standout stuff like the porn star talking issue. It's the facial expressions that make her into a character not just a voice for Ellis' copy and paste.
I haven't read any Ellis in a long time, so this felt fresh, even if it was clearly revisiting a lot of his classic tropes. Robina as young female assistant to the old bastard protagonist was the most obvious. It may be a bit hypocritical to critique Ellis for this sort of repetition when I love Grant or Alan Moore's recurring character archetypes, but the simple fact is Ellis's works just aren't as ambitious as a Morrison or Moore piece. He's more like Garth Ennis, you know what you're getting going in. Read him every once in a while and you're cool, but read too much and you realize everything's spins on the same concepts.
But, this confirms I'll read anything JHW draws. |
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