| SCARS |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|11:54 pm] |
Scars is getting a second printing.
Scars, for the record, is awesome. It's one of the best comic books Warren Ellis has written, but for some reason resides in an under-the-radar spot of his body of work. It's not the madcap political satire of Transmetropolitan, the hard-edged sci-fi of Lazarus Churchyard, nor the quite frankly batshit-insane bombast of Nextwave.
It's a very simple story about a guy who has the misfortune to be the homicide detective on call the night something unpleasant turns up in a couple of cardboard boxes on the doorstep of a charity shop. It's the case that hits close to home, and the final test of a man who is so terribly trying to do the right thing while tightrope-walking on the edge of his own psychological abyss.
It came out around the same time as his action/horror series Strange Kiss, plus a bundle of smaller Image Comics miniseries that were variously about mechanical battlesuits, cyberpunk hell on Earth, and embittered former spooks trying to fight back against the agency's attempts to jerk the chain once more. Somehow, amid these, Scars got lost. It was a simple story about a guy trying to do his job without losing his mind first. No sci-fi, no monsters, no weird sex or conspiracy theories. Just the story of a man trying to make amends with his own personal demons.
It's bloody amazing. If you like good comics, give it a whirl.
(ALSO: I've been away for the past just-over-a-week celebrating our wedding anniversary in Las Vegas. I employed my mentally-ill skills and ploughed through 440 Livejournal posts, three hundred and fifty e-mails, and four hundred RSS updates, so I'm pretty well up to scratch.) |
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Way back when, I had to order the first print from my local comic book shop because they had never heard of it.
I'm going to re-read it now. | |
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