Cemetery beach

Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, the creative team behind Trees, reunite for a new series: Cemetery Beach. And I’m gonna stop there - I could describe the setup, the characters’ names and blah blah blah but it really doesn’t matter. All you need to know is that, against a futuristic backdrop, two char Leggi tutto

Not Warren Ellis’s best work, unfortunately. The plot is very thin, the entire book is basically one long chase scene and there are some interesting world-building ideas here, but they’re barely explored during the course of the series. Jason Howard’s art is wonderful though, and if there’s a silver Leggi tutto

Books that review themselves: "You know, at some point along the way, this stopped being fun." This book-long chase scene/shoot-out just ground me down. Any interesting bits were drowned out by gunfire and crashes.

What's with the low ratings here? Cemetery Beach was simplistic, sure, but it was also fast-paced, riveting, and brilliantly illustrated. The sci-fi concepts, though occasionally borrowed, felt fresh and exciting in this iteration. We're dropped without explanation onto an alien planet discovered in Leggi tutto

Hope you like explosions. I like explosions, they're okay, but this book taught me that they quickly become boring. So a small group of rich entrepeneurs, scientists and industrialists worked out space travel in the 1930s, and they tootled off and colonised a planet. That sounds interesting, doesn't Leggi tutto

What a hilariously deflated effort from Ellis, starting off with excellent action and old-school sci-fi vibes and ending up a 6-issue-long chase sequence with barely any stakes and a hilariously underdeveloped plot. Basically, it feels like the first 20 minutes of an okay sci-fi movie and the payoff Leggi tutto

Es un poco sangrante que Ellis abandonara Inyección o Trees para hacer un tebeo tan vacío como este. Una persecución bien dibujada por Jason Howard, con viñetas repletas de dinamismo y una secuencia de la acción ejemplar, pero una trama y un escenario exiguos que me llevan preguntarme a santo de qué Leggi tutto

So back in the 1920s, a small group of scientists find and operate a way to travel off world. They discovered a new planet and set up a colony there. Overtime, I guess this event was lost or forgotten about. Fast forward to current times and they have learned about this. They sent a recon man, Mike