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A bit back I was pointed out at this comic as being great. The comic at hand is Fell and the issue I was pointed out was #6. I bought it, and it was every bit it was promised to be. Today I’ve read most of the issues available minus #5. Guess gonna have to wait until the graphic novel appears…

The comic is created by Warren Ellis and the art is by Ben Templesmith, the same of 30 night days and it is published by Image comics.
The basic plot is about Richard Fell, a detective that is transfered to Snowtown from a city over the bridge. It is not quite clear why he is transfered, other than something to do with an injured partner. Snowtown is everything you don’t want a city to be, everything is corrupted, vicious, violent, did I say violent?

Then of course there is Fell. An incredible good cop that does everything needed to be done in order to get the bad guys out of the street. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter whether is the guy of the specific crime at hand (issue #4).

The most current issue just hit stand this week. It is issue number 8. It goes out from the normal 9frames / page layout (mostly), it is great!.

In this issue, our hero logs the happening of one night in snowtown. Even though there is a main story, it is background. The issue is about everything that happens at Snowtown in one night. And shit do things happen in one night!. There are so many small stories. My favorite is the guy that steals mannequins for sexual pleasure, the whole story is told in three frames; but it feels complete. Or the short story about the girl that couldn’t open the door to her apt because his boyfriend was being eaten by a boa constrictor, told in two frames. Just genius!. The rest, is a guy that kills his father, a little girl that witnesses the murder of both parent, a guy passing as terrorist to hide the body of a girl he raped and then kill, etc… just in 16 pages. The common thread is so well kept throughout and the art, as usual, is just great.

If you get the chance go to your local comic store and drop $1.99, that’s it, the cheapest comic in the stands right now, the bus might be more expensive.

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If you thought Rocky Balboa or Rocky VI was testing our patience for sequels, think again. Die Hard 4, with a 52 year old Bruce Willis is here:

At least he has the sense to play the father of a teenage girl. The girl gets kidnapped by, get this, an Internet-based (whatever the hell that means) terrorist organization and all hell breaks loose with the loose cannon that is John McClane. And speaking of Rocky, our buddy Stallone (age, 60) is not satisfied still. He’s reprising his other action hero, Rambo in John Rambo (what’s with the full name of characters in movie titles?) aka Rambo IV, due next year. I can’t wait.

Did I mention Indiana Jones IV, Shrek III, and Pirates of the Caribbean III? At least with Indy IV, they made a good decision by casting the wonderful Cate Blanchett. I just hope there are no love scenes between her and grandpa Ford.

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The third issue is out and it is extremely disappointing. When I started reading the series I got very excited because it was aimed to give depth to the story and to the characters; and I was expecting the quality of the script and vision the movie had given us.

The first issue was interesting, the atmosphere was there, the format was working. The second issue, the story got better, the art was still good. Sloth, though the art style is interesting and likeable, the story is terrible. It is so bad that is not worth even talking about it. What I had believe would have been one of the most interesting stories to tell, turned out to be boring and so naive and shallow I couldn’t even give it to other people to read.

The good thing, I guess, is that there is no way the next one is worse.

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