Pipeline - May 20, 2014

[CBR News]

Augie takes a look at "the most Warren Ellis comic of 2004," and the McSpidey Chronicles continue with the web-slinger on an adventure in Chicago.


Full article here.

[dancj]

I found New Maps of Hell to be a huge disappointment.

The dialogue was great, but the story was so decompressed to the point where it felt like nothing had actually happened.

[Old Bull Lee]

I want to like Warren Ellis, but there are two things about him I've never been able to get around:

1) Like Joss Whedon, most of his characters speak in the same style of dialogue, which happens to sound a lot like the writer.

2) I think he comes up with some neat sci-fi ideas, but he tries to dress them up with a lot of big words and real-world concepts to make them seem more sophisticated than they are. The stories around the simple ideas are good enough that they don't need the dressing.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

I agree with the decompression. Maybe reading it in one sitting makes it feel better? I imagine it would have been frustrating to have read it from month to month when it originally came out. As a speedy read through the whole thing at once, though, it's somewhat more acceptable.

Oddly enough, I have the original issues. I must have bought them as they came out at the time. I don't remember ever reading them, though. Maybe I did. I have no idea.... Probably not a good sign.

-Augie

[dancj]

I only read it in TPB as well - and I'm not normally bothered by decompression. I just felt this one took it too far.