Strange Killings
This is actually a trade from Avatar Press, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Mike Wolfer. All black and white, 144 pages and generally fun stuff.
Its a story dealing with combat magician William Gravel who has been resurrected in the new Gravel mini series
The short version of the story is that a group of assassins who used to be under Gravel’s command kill a senator and pin the blame on him, so he kicks their asses. The End.
This might not seem like that much story to fill 144 pages, and to be honest a writer of Ellis’ skill could probably give us the same story in a third of that, but this book feels deliberately decompressed in the action scenes. Whereas normally writers spend 6 pages on a conversation when they are accused of decompression, this book gets that out of the way and can spend 3 pages on one kick to the head. Quite unlike any pacing I’ve read before and I really enjoyed it. That said, this comic book slomo combined with the running up walls and acrobatic gun-play do lend themselves to obvious comparisons to The Matrix and the cynic in me was seeing the whole thing as a bit of an extended movie pitch… but when the ride was this much fun, who cares?
Its a story dealing with combat magician William Gravel who has been resurrected in the new Gravel mini series
The short version of the story is that a group of assassins who used to be under Gravel’s command kill a senator and pin the blame on him, so he kicks their asses. The End.
This might not seem like that much story to fill 144 pages, and to be honest a writer of Ellis’ skill could probably give us the same story in a third of that, but this book feels deliberately decompressed in the action scenes. Whereas normally writers spend 6 pages on a conversation when they are accused of decompression, this book gets that out of the way and can spend 3 pages on one kick to the head. Quite unlike any pacing I’ve read before and I really enjoyed it. That said, this comic book slomo combined with the running up walls and acrobatic gun-play do lend themselves to obvious comparisons to The Matrix and the cynic in me was seeing the whole thing as a bit of an extended movie pitch… but when the ride was this much fun, who cares?
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