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While I'm a huge fan of Ellis' work in general, I fall firmly in the camp that believes that his best work is his earlier work. Lazarus Churchyard is the easiest to find of that particular era of his writing and it's well worth the hunting down. (It's in print.) His early stuff has such a burning, wrathful passion that it's amazing. Unfortunatly, a lot of his really good early stuff was in various superhero books that are a) hard to find and b) not very approachable when you do find them. Druid, Hellstorm, Doom 2099... there was such a vitality and energy to his writing back then. The same holds mostly true for Stormwatch (which is also in TPB) as well.
Early Ellis work, even up to and including earlier Transmet, has this air of betrayed optimisim that hasn't really carried over into his later work. While Planetary is brillant and a technical masterpiece; it, along with most of his recent work, dosen't have the spark of passion that his earlier work carried.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
And back to the topic at hand, you might want to address his shift in writing style in recent years. It's the most obvious, of course, in Transmet. |
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