Fell #9
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Ben Templesmith
Warren Ellis is a Science Fiction freak and often brings that to his creation of his comics. The man who once championed the trade paperback and brought back the wide screen format, as well as likely wanted to fuck his cell phone if his story topics are any indication, has gone out and created the perfect budget comic. That comic, as you can no doubt tell, is Fell. The comic is 16 intensely paced pages that make up a complete story for only $2.00. And it’s the best comic on the market today.
Richard Fell is a detective who was unceremoniously transferred to the worst part of the city where decadence and decay is the rule and decent, hardworking people the exception. Fell is the possessor of a keen analytical mind, but as he spends time in Snowtown, the craptacular town in which he is now forced to reside and work in, he begins to see the law and justice in different ways. This isn’t going unnoticed and Fell’s slow transformation is the main subplot of the entire series. Naturally, it doesn’t affect a jump on reader and each issue is still complete on its own.
This issue features Fell attempting to be a hostage negotiator. This isn’t his job, but as he had a half a day training, he’s the best Snowtown has. Naturally, the hostage situation ends up quite disturbing and in an interesting twist, nothing goes remotely right. It’s just that kind of book. Fell does his best with the situation though and the haunting art gets across the trauma perfectly.
Ben Templesmith draws in a strange, angular, noir style for this book and it looks striking. The entire city is visually warped, just as every character comes across in perfect humanity. Fell’s perspective is something else entirely, almost impossible to explain, simple, but deep analysis.
This book is $2.00. That’s the cheapest book the market. This book is phenomenal. It’s the best book on the market. With $2.00 you get a complete storyline from the best book on the market. Get it? Good. Get it!
