false <![CDATA[Fell Volume 1: Feral City]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170227506m/43722.jpg 43722 3 Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something. 1188881 6 6 2007 Fell Volume 1: Feral City total:718|5:352|4:253|3:95|2:16|1:2| 718 3091 842 86 5 2 false false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 23:29:57 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 00:12:19 -0700 2008
Fell: If you retrieve that piece of ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 11:48:37 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 11:53:10 -0700 2007
The setting is a creepy suburb called Snowtown, a dark, bleak place overtaken by urban decay. Fell is a detec...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 15:26:34 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 13 14:57:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 17:09:20 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 07:15:27 -0700 2007 warren's so good at what he does that it is incredibly subtle here, in these 8 nine panel 16 page short crime stories about a cop actually trying to do his job in an abandoned, blighted urban environment. you could be distracted by the recurrent ellisisms, (tough, damaged protagonists, extem...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 13:32:22 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 13:43:57 -0800 2009 1.5 i think
Warren Ellis's writing is often full of everything that lurks in the shadows and goes bump in the night. He explores the underbelly from the underbelly's point of view. That's what Snowtown is, from the perspective of detective Fell. Everyone is hiding some...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 06:20:33 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 06:44:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jul 12 10:52:33 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 10:55:24 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 07:00:50 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 07:04:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 03 22:16:21 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 22:21:18 -0700 2009 Feral City is the way that ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 09 17:49:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 17:52:17 -0700 2009
This is a dark, gritty, disturbing world that Ellis and Templesmith have created. Everyone has his or her own twisted secret.

I do not recommend this for anyone who...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 12 07:40:31 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 07:52:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 22 08:45:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 09:48:25 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 08:45:37 -0700 2009
Fans of Ellis's writing will find a lot to love, here: a flawed hero who wins some and loses some, odd and sometimes disturbing facts se...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 20 05:16:43 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 05:26:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 04 16:28:22 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 16:58:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 08:21:35 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 08:23:51 -0700 2008 I could learn to hate this town."
Life in Snowtown leaves its mark.
No-one knows that better than Richard Fell, late of the NYPD, transferred to the dead-end, no-hope nowhere of Snowtown for reasons only later revealed.
Tasked with solving crimes in a place where murder i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 21 17:09:16 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 17:12:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 14 07:45:27 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 07:47:45 -0700 2009 Transmetropolitan. Ellis’ hard-boiled detective Fell and Templesmith’s visuals are a perfect match, combining to make me all kittenish on the inside. Might benefit from a less episodic format but who am I to argue with genius? Good stuff, and fulfi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 22 13:59:41 -0700 2007 Tue May 13 16:40:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 23:35:28 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 11:56:10 -0700 2008
This starts with the basic city gone completely to hell idea. Its place in the United States or world is not really clear. In this case it...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 03:43:57 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 03:49:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=43722