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Top 10 #5
Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct
The officers of Precinct 10 must band together to rid the city of a mysterious force that is terrorizing the residents of Neopolis.
128 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2006
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Paul Di Filippo
518 books186 followersPaul Di Filippo is the author of hundreds of short stories, some of which have been collected in these widely-praised collections: The Steampunk Trilogy, Ribofunk, Fractal Paisleys, Lost Pages, Little Doors, Strange Trades, Babylon Sisters, and his multiple-award-nominated novella, A Year in the Linear City. Another earlier collection, Destroy All Brains, was published by Pirate Writings, but is quite rare because of the extremely short print run (if you see one, buy it!).
The popularity of Di Filippo’s short stories sometimes distracts from the impact of his mindbending, utterly unclassifiable novels: Ciphers, Joe’s Liver, Fuzzy Dice, A Mouthful of Tongues, and Spondulix. Paul’s offbeat sensibility, soulful characterizations, exquisite-yet-compact prose, and laugh-out-loud dialogue give his work a charmingly unique voice that is both compelling and addictive. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Philip K. Dick, Wired Magazine, and World Fantasy awards.
Despite his dilatory ways, Paul affirms that the sequel to A Year in the Linear City, to be titled A Princess of the Linear Jungle, will get written in 2008. He has two books forthcoming from PS Publications: the collection entitled Harsh Oases and the novel titled Roadside Bodhisattva. His 2008 novel Cosmocopia is graced by Jim Woodring illustrations.
Paul lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
The popularity of Di Filippo’s short stories sometimes distracts from the impact of his mindbending, utterly unclassifiable novels: Ciphers, Joe’s Liver, Fuzzy Dice, A Mouthful of Tongues, and Spondulix. Paul’s offbeat sensibility, soulful characterizations, exquisite-yet-compact prose, and laugh-out-loud dialogue give his work a charmingly unique voice that is both compelling and addictive. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Philip K. Dick, Wired Magazine, and World Fantasy awards.
Despite his dilatory ways, Paul affirms that the sequel to A Year in the Linear City, to be titled A Princess of the Linear Jungle, will get written in 2008. He has two books forthcoming from PS Publications: the collection entitled Harsh Oases and the novel titled Roadside Bodhisattva. His 2008 novel Cosmocopia is graced by Jim Woodring illustrations.
Paul lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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November 30, 2019
As an enormous Top 10 fan, I have to ask: what the hell even is this? This was written a few years before the never-collected-in-paperback Top 10 Season Two, yet is set 5 years in the future after that series. There's no discernible reason Di Filippo jumped that far into the future, but there's also no discernible reason for almost anything that happens in this book. It's muddled, directionless, and pointless. It feels like a terrible first draft. Which makes me ask, why bother? Was this just some cash grab by America's Best and/or DC Comics, hoping to keep the franchise alive? If so, then why not try to make it, y'know, good?
Like I said, this thing is a mess. Di Filippo misses the tone of the series by a mile, writing mostly bad superhero puns instead of doing any actual world-building, and flubbing the dialogue nonstop. He also expands the world of Neopolis in a way that makes it include not just superheroes and fantasy characters, but basically anything that has ever existed in fiction, including literal cartoon characters and characters from novels. It actively screws up the foundation Alan Moore laid, and doesn't even do anything with any of it.
Another massive problem is the plot. Moore's Top 10 was carefully crafted and structured, weaving in and out of the various officers' lives while also having them deal with very specific superhero-based crimes. The story built on itself, and the threads began to weave together into a very satisfying whole. With this, Di Filippo just throws everything he can think of at the wall, but never explores any of it or how it affects the characters personally. He also has an ungodly amount of action occur offscreen, instead opting to have characters constantly spewing exposition to catch us up. It's simultaneously maddening and boring.
So, if you haven't picked up on it yet, I hated this. It feels like a betrayal of everything I love about this series, and I simply cannot recommend it.
However, if you have access to the single issues, Zander Cannon and Gene Ha's follow-up series I mentioned, Top 10 Season Two, is actually a great sequel to Moore's run. It picks up right where the original leaves off, and really focuses in on the characters in a way that I found satisfying. It's incomplete, and feels like it was prematurely canceled (which may also explain why it was never collected), but it's a far worthier sequel than this nonsense.
Like I said, this thing is a mess. Di Filippo misses the tone of the series by a mile, writing mostly bad superhero puns instead of doing any actual world-building, and flubbing the dialogue nonstop. He also expands the world of Neopolis in a way that makes it include not just superheroes and fantasy characters, but basically anything that has ever existed in fiction, including literal cartoon characters and characters from novels. It actively screws up the foundation Alan Moore laid, and doesn't even do anything with any of it.
Another massive problem is the plot. Moore's Top 10 was carefully crafted and structured, weaving in and out of the various officers' lives while also having them deal with very specific superhero-based crimes. The story built on itself, and the threads began to weave together into a very satisfying whole. With this, Di Filippo just throws everything he can think of at the wall, but never explores any of it or how it affects the characters personally. He also has an ungodly amount of action occur offscreen, instead opting to have characters constantly spewing exposition to catch us up. It's simultaneously maddening and boring.
So, if you haven't picked up on it yet, I hated this. It feels like a betrayal of everything I love about this series, and I simply cannot recommend it.
However, if you have access to the single issues, Zander Cannon and Gene Ha's follow-up series I mentioned, Top 10 Season Two, is actually a great sequel to Moore's run. It picks up right where the original leaves off, and really focuses in on the characters in a way that I found satisfying. It's incomplete, and feels like it was prematurely canceled (which may also explain why it was never collected), but it's a far worthier sequel than this nonsense.
February 20, 2020
This is just... It's bad. It's really not good. Jerry Ordway's art is solid but not a great fit for the setting, the classic Top 10 easter egg design doesn't land, and most importantly Di Filippo's sense of the humanity of these characters, the love and acceptance that is absolutely core to every other set of stories in this world, is just absent. Everyone is judgmental and that is played as both humorous and correct, when it's alien to the city.
Avoid at all costs.
Avoid at all costs.
September 9, 2020
So far removed from the original series, shouldn't have been written?
August 4, 2018
I liked it. I’m a big fan of top ten and I thought they did a good job carrying on with the characters. At only 5 issues it’s a quick read and worth your time if you like top ten. 4 stars.
August 4, 2008
Fun, but not as strong as the original Moore Top 10 stories.
Characters all sound right, and there are some good new characters and 'cameos' in the art, but it doesn't add up to a satisfying whole.
Mostly I liked the small side stories, but not the major one. It felt too shoehorned in and typical super hero, than the unique cop TV show meets Justice League feel of the Moore stories. That and it felt rushed.
With a better big ending story this might have worked.
Characters all sound right, and there are some good new characters and 'cameos' in the art, but it doesn't add up to a satisfying whole.
Mostly I liked the small side stories, but not the major one. It felt too shoehorned in and typical super hero, than the unique cop TV show meets Justice League feel of the Moore stories. That and it felt rushed.
With a better big ending story this might have worked.
November 10, 2018
A bit of a mish-mash of a plot but nice characterisations and some lovely Ordway artwork.
April 1, 2021
Reprints Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct #1-5 (October 2005-February 2006). The 10th Precinct is rocked to its core when Traynor finds himself fired and a new hardline chief is put in charge of the department. With an entity called the Hell Ditch Pilgrim seemingly infiltrating Neopolis, the public is demanding answers and the officers are in a race to get them.
Written by Paul Di Filippo, Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct is an America’s Best Comics limited series published under Wildstorm. Following Smax, the series features art by Jerry Ordway.
Top 10 was my favorite series of the America’s Best Comics. It took the best aspects of Powers and combined it with NYPD Blues and all the problems of police officers. When America’s Best Comics kind of shuttered and Alan Moore left the project, Top 10 was the series I was most sad about losing…but at least this volume feels like a mini-wrap-up.
The series still has edge, but it feels like it has lost some of the “dirty factor” that Alan Moore brought to it. Alan Moore never shied away from pushing the boundaries of comic books and what could be told in them, and this feels below his level of push and grit. The story isn’t as big as the stories presented in the first run of Top 10 and I just wanted a bit more from it (or a longer series).
Part of the joy of Top 10 is the art. It isn’t because the characters are amazingly designed (they are good), but it is the fun of tearing apart each page to see what references you can find on it. Be it an appearance by Machine Man (called Rikby-2001), the Scooby-Doo gang, Dick Tracy, and Tintin, the series dives deep into cartoon and comic book history for its background references. It is the type of series that is primarily enjoyed by a well-read comic book or pop culture fan (I mean, Joe is turned into a robot from Silent Running and receives drugs from Tik-Tok of the Oz books…that’s funny).
Top 10 is a book that I hope will still pop up on occasion when people look at fun and thought out comic books. It isn’t top tier Alan Moore and this isn’t a top tier aping of Alan Moore…but it is still in the spirit of Alan Moore. The story is left with a bit of a cliffhanger in the questions of what some of the character’s futures hold, and I wish that there had been a direct sequel. Top 10 did return in a 2008 mini-series Top 10: Season 2.
Written by Paul Di Filippo, Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct is an America’s Best Comics limited series published under Wildstorm. Following Smax, the series features art by Jerry Ordway.
Top 10 was my favorite series of the America’s Best Comics. It took the best aspects of Powers and combined it with NYPD Blues and all the problems of police officers. When America’s Best Comics kind of shuttered and Alan Moore left the project, Top 10 was the series I was most sad about losing…but at least this volume feels like a mini-wrap-up.
The series still has edge, but it feels like it has lost some of the “dirty factor” that Alan Moore brought to it. Alan Moore never shied away from pushing the boundaries of comic books and what could be told in them, and this feels below his level of push and grit. The story isn’t as big as the stories presented in the first run of Top 10 and I just wanted a bit more from it (or a longer series).
Part of the joy of Top 10 is the art. It isn’t because the characters are amazingly designed (they are good), but it is the fun of tearing apart each page to see what references you can find on it. Be it an appearance by Machine Man (called Rikby-2001), the Scooby-Doo gang, Dick Tracy, and Tintin, the series dives deep into cartoon and comic book history for its background references. It is the type of series that is primarily enjoyed by a well-read comic book or pop culture fan (I mean, Joe is turned into a robot from Silent Running and receives drugs from Tik-Tok of the Oz books…that’s funny).
Top 10 is a book that I hope will still pop up on occasion when people look at fun and thought out comic books. It isn’t top tier Alan Moore and this isn’t a top tier aping of Alan Moore…but it is still in the spirit of Alan Moore. The story is left with a bit of a cliffhanger in the questions of what some of the character’s futures hold, and I wish that there had been a direct sequel. Top 10 did return in a 2008 mini-series Top 10: Season 2.
May 25, 2018
Neopolis- that super-city refuge for superheroes, villains and those with special powers and abilities.
Precinct 10- home of the finest police force in all of Neopolis.
Top 10 is back in this new series from Di Filippo and Jerry Ordway (Superman.) Taking the reigns from the legendary Alan Moore (Watchmen) and the superb Gene Ha (Batman: Fortunate Son) is no small feat. But this duo gets the job done in a mighty way.
Neopolis is besieged with a terrifying vision of a grim reaper like entity. As the Top 10 investigate, the mystery deepens with a new drug for robots is hitting the streets and Precinct 10 undergoes a change in leadership. The team had better act fast to tie all the loose threads together as the mass hysteria behind these terrible visions is spreading fast!
This story may not have been 100% as good as the Alan Moore run. But it was quite entertaining and it was great catching back up with so many unforgettable characters.
This is a book that you may want to re-read at least once. Almost every panel is filled with Easter Eggs, cameos, and inside jokes. Ordway crafted it so that you would find something new with every read. He is a master!
A really fun read with an intriguing array of plot twists and multiple story lines. This would make a great Netflix series!
Precinct 10- home of the finest police force in all of Neopolis.
Top 10 is back in this new series from Di Filippo and Jerry Ordway (Superman.) Taking the reigns from the legendary Alan Moore (Watchmen) and the superb Gene Ha (Batman: Fortunate Son) is no small feat. But this duo gets the job done in a mighty way.
Neopolis is besieged with a terrifying vision of a grim reaper like entity. As the Top 10 investigate, the mystery deepens with a new drug for robots is hitting the streets and Precinct 10 undergoes a change in leadership. The team had better act fast to tie all the loose threads together as the mass hysteria behind these terrible visions is spreading fast!
This story may not have been 100% as good as the Alan Moore run. But it was quite entertaining and it was great catching back up with so many unforgettable characters.
This is a book that you may want to re-read at least once. Almost every panel is filled with Easter Eggs, cameos, and inside jokes. Ordway crafted it so that you would find something new with every read. He is a master!
A really fun read with an intriguing array of plot twists and multiple story lines. This would make a great Netflix series!
September 20, 2018
The existence of this book made no sense to me at all until I started reading how the ABC comics imprint was sold without Alan Moore's knowledge, then it was all to clear.
Alan Moore's history reminds me of Ayn Rand's book the Fountainhead. Everything he creates, either DC or Hollywood wants to steal it and turn into mediocre drivel. If you don't believe me, watch the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film, read any of the Watchmen sequels or look at how quickly DC messed up ABC comics.
Other than the artwork, I don't have a single nice thing to say about this book. The charaterisation is the worst part, anything interesting of the original cast is stripped down to bad cliches. The plot almost goes somewhere, almost.
What Alan Moore and Gene Ha created is so unique and wonderfully stylish that this book is laughable by comparison. It lacks any subtlety, depth or humour. A big fat no from me.
Alan Moore's history reminds me of Ayn Rand's book the Fountainhead. Everything he creates, either DC or Hollywood wants to steal it and turn into mediocre drivel. If you don't believe me, watch the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film, read any of the Watchmen sequels or look at how quickly DC messed up ABC comics.
Other than the artwork, I don't have a single nice thing to say about this book. The charaterisation is the worst part, anything interesting of the original cast is stripped down to bad cliches. The plot almost goes somewhere, almost.
What Alan Moore and Gene Ha created is so unique and wonderfully stylish that this book is laughable by comparison. It lacks any subtlety, depth or humour. A big fat no from me.
May 10, 2023
Di Filippo kind of gets the characters of some of the heroes, but he gets none of the dense and intriguing storytelling of Moore's original. Instead, we get musical chairs of partners, a muddy, meandering, mostly uninteresting set of plots, and an ending that has at least two different major elements that come absolutely out of nowhere. Overall, not worth reading, so thank goodness it's five years forward so it could be skipped on future reads if desired. [1/5].
December 21, 2019
Vergissing
February 19, 2020
Que manera de desperdiciar un buen material.
August 26, 2022
Parafraseando a Gandalf:
«¡Huid, insensatos! »
December 1, 2020
Engrossing environment and a pretty good story until the ending which was very unclear.
Very good art with lots of interesting background objects and characters.
Story had places where it jumped forward in time and it had me checking to make sure I hadn’t skipped a page. It was annoying and made the story feel rushed.
Not really sure what happened to the Mayor or Police chief.
Very good art with lots of interesting background objects and characters.
Story had places where it jumped forward in time and it had me checking to make sure I hadn’t skipped a page. It was annoying and made the story feel rushed.
Not really sure what happened to the Mayor or Police chief.
April 26, 2011
Top Ten: Beyond the Farthest Precinct is like a slap in the face to Alan Moore and Gene Ha, the two minds behind the original Top 10 series. After reading all the way through, I feel like the new writer understood some of the characters, but none of what made the original series so good. Yes, Shock-headed Pete is still a bigot. Yes, Dust Devil still loves his mommy. Yes, Jack Phantom is still gay and yes, Caesar is still a dog. But beyond those sorts of basic facts, the heart of Top 10 is lost. The characters are inept and whiny. They go places for all of five frames where a single piece of plot drops in their lap and they banter about other things. Motivation, conscience, integrity is all thrown right out the window.
The biggest examples of what is wrong with this story can be found at the beginning and at the end, each time at a picnic. In the opening scene, as the Top 10 characters enjoy a picnic, a small group of ants being lead by one diminutive person in a helmet approach a table of food. In the next panel, Jack Phantom callously smashes the little group with a fly swatter. That's homicide. She just killed someone, right in front of everyone. But instead, it's played off like some sort of joke. A light bit of comedy.
Di Filippo seems to have completely forgotten that these characters are supposed to be law enforcement in a world full of super-powered people. Instead, he writes BtFP like it's a world full of Looney Tunes. Whereas the original Top 10 cameoed super heroes from other super hero comics, in BtFP we get cameos of boggle-eyed dogs, cats and Disney characters, dinosaur cops, skeleton cops and Skeletor from He-Man. A baboon with an exposed red bottom is mayor. The new chief of police is a guy wearing some sort of antiquated boiler system in place of a robotic suit. Seriously, Paul? He looks like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz.
The final nail in the coffin for this graphic novel is at the end, when the Top 10 crew are once again enjoying a picnic. Earlier in the novel, a giant talking catfish is caught who apparently is wanted in connection with some crimes. Well, forget about courthouse justice, the Top 10ers just grill him up and eat him. No lawyers, no judges, no jury or conviction. just a death sentence.
Did I mention that the primary antagonist of the story is ridiculous? The explanation is incoherent and if you know the history behind the character, you're going to scratch your head in confusion, it's all so baffling.
The biggest examples of what is wrong with this story can be found at the beginning and at the end, each time at a picnic. In the opening scene, as the Top 10 characters enjoy a picnic, a small group of ants being lead by one diminutive person in a helmet approach a table of food. In the next panel, Jack Phantom callously smashes the little group with a fly swatter. That's homicide. She just killed someone, right in front of everyone. But instead, it's played off like some sort of joke. A light bit of comedy.
Di Filippo seems to have completely forgotten that these characters are supposed to be law enforcement in a world full of super-powered people. Instead, he writes BtFP like it's a world full of Looney Tunes. Whereas the original Top 10 cameoed super heroes from other super hero comics, in BtFP we get cameos of boggle-eyed dogs, cats and Disney characters, dinosaur cops, skeleton cops and Skeletor from He-Man. A baboon with an exposed red bottom is mayor. The new chief of police is a guy wearing some sort of antiquated boiler system in place of a robotic suit. Seriously, Paul? He looks like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz.
The final nail in the coffin for this graphic novel is at the end, when the Top 10 crew are once again enjoying a picnic. Earlier in the novel, a giant talking catfish is caught who apparently is wanted in connection with some crimes. Well, forget about courthouse justice, the Top 10ers just grill him up and eat him. No lawyers, no judges, no jury or conviction. just a death sentence.
Did I mention that the primary antagonist of the story is ridiculous? The explanation is incoherent and if you know the history behind the character, you're going to scratch your head in confusion, it's all so baffling.
November 4, 2012
I was really looking forwards to more Top 10 when I bought this... and obviously the writers were too. A little too much.
This book reeks of what's called "Running the Asylum", when the fans of a show/book/franchise wind up at the reigns creating more. Sometimes it works out really well, other times not so much. And this is one of the other times.
There are a lot of well intentioned moves here that just don't pan out. One character is resurrected after her poignant death in the original, and this action just totally undercuts the quality of the original. Yes, I really wish she hadn't died too, but bringing her back to life with a 1 speech bubble hand wave is not the way to go. In a similar vein, there's a really ham fisted romance with Jackie. Again, it's well intentioned, I want to see "happy endings" for these characters too, but Top 10 was too complicated for "happy endings". It was a comic about cops, people just doing their jobs, getting on with their lives, and that was one of its great strengths, and perhaps the reason its creators chose to discontinue it without a lot of ceremony. There wasn't going to be a nice bow you could wrap around the end of it and say "it's finished!", because work and life just go on.
The point where the book lost me was near the end, after quite a tangled, poorly thought out plot, one of the characters announces that another has become a "Science Hero" and is famous. This really feels like it's flying in the face of what Top 10 was about. The characters in Top 10 might have had super powers, but they were not super heroes. They were just cops. Several of the most famous "Science Heroes" in the original turned out to be a ring of sex offenders. Making the Top 10 characters into heroes would be like making the characters of NYPD blue into celebrities.
There are lots of little things here and there that just don't feel right too. On every page you can't escape the feeling that something isn't quite right, and it isn't the Top 10 we know.
To be fair, I do think that a lot of people involved in this book were trying very hard, and there are touches of quality, some lines that made me chuckle, some decent art. But they were trying to fill some very big shoes, and they just didn't manage it.
This book reeks of what's called "Running the Asylum", when the fans of a show/book/franchise wind up at the reigns creating more. Sometimes it works out really well, other times not so much. And this is one of the other times.
There are a lot of well intentioned moves here that just don't pan out. One character is resurrected after her poignant death in the original, and this action just totally undercuts the quality of the original. Yes, I really wish she hadn't died too, but bringing her back to life with a 1 speech bubble hand wave is not the way to go. In a similar vein, there's a really ham fisted romance with Jackie. Again, it's well intentioned, I want to see "happy endings" for these characters too, but Top 10 was too complicated for "happy endings". It was a comic about cops, people just doing their jobs, getting on with their lives, and that was one of its great strengths, and perhaps the reason its creators chose to discontinue it without a lot of ceremony. There wasn't going to be a nice bow you could wrap around the end of it and say "it's finished!", because work and life just go on.
The point where the book lost me was near the end, after quite a tangled, poorly thought out plot, one of the characters announces that another has become a "Science Hero" and is famous. This really feels like it's flying in the face of what Top 10 was about. The characters in Top 10 might have had super powers, but they were not super heroes. They were just cops. Several of the most famous "Science Heroes" in the original turned out to be a ring of sex offenders. Making the Top 10 characters into heroes would be like making the characters of NYPD blue into celebrities.
There are lots of little things here and there that just don't feel right too. On every page you can't escape the feeling that something isn't quite right, and it isn't the Top 10 we know.
To be fair, I do think that a lot of people involved in this book were trying very hard, and there are touches of quality, some lines that made me chuckle, some decent art. But they were trying to fill some very big shoes, and they just didn't manage it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 19, 2011
I doubted my judgment when I finished this book and thought, "That was, well, OK, I guess." The first two collections of Top 10 comics were just so fantastic that I couldn't imagine that this mediocre mess was part of the same canon, and so rather than trust my judgment, I wondered I had missed something in this volume. Turns out I had not. I am in agreement with all the low reviews posted here: without Alan Moore at the helm, the storytelling drops several notches, in terms of complexity, allusion, depth, wit, etc. (I am also unimpressed with DiFilippo thus far. I have read two collections of his fiction and just don't see what all the fuss is about.) As others have noted, there were lots of visual jokes in the background, and the art was (mostly) as good as in the other Top 10 books, but as for the story itself? Meh.
February 28, 2011
You could tell this one was not written by Alan Moore. The plot lacked the complexity and nuance of intertwining plot lines, and it no longer had the episodic nature of a day in the life of the officers. The original would have some officers dealing with the utterly mundane, while others were dealing with horrifically stressful and dangerous cases. This did not offer that, and the ending relied on a very poor deus ex machina. A shame, since the characters were developed well enough in the original that it seems like so much more could have happened with them.
March 13, 2008
As usual the Top 10 characters were great and the art was a lot of fun with all it's special "guest appearances" although they may have been a bit overdone. Unfortunately the story on this one was just ok it had a kind of deus ex machina ending and the pacing seemed off, like he ran out of the room and skipped to the end.
I'm not sure they needed to add new heroes to the mix either but at least they were fun.
I'm not sure they needed to add new heroes to the mix either but at least they were fun.
September 17, 2014
The new team that took over this comic has made it all about inside jokes in the drawings and has abandoned good storytelling. Also, speaking of the drawings, sub par compared to the original team. If you're going to continue a story at least make it worthwhile, not Tin-Tin and Popeye jokes! Oh, and I hate it when comic series try to integrate things in our world into theirs, ie 9/11 and Harry Potter... sheesh.
August 10, 2008
I love Top Ten, but after rereading this series in one sitting, I've decided that Di Filippo either needed to make the story a full twelve issues long (as opposed to five), or cut a LOT of things out. So much effort is spent on wordless panels of story that receive next to no explanation. Here's hoping that "Season Two" will be a step up.
October 17, 2008
Seemed imaginative, particularly the characters, but was very wtf. I was completely confused by the world and story and learned only after reading it that it's the fifth volume in a series, by a new author taking over the series to boot. Okay, then.
October 2, 2010
The dialogue is awkward, the characters don't look or sound like they should, and and half of the plot goes nowhere. The background in-jokes are too much to the fore, and the balance of the plot is way off. Dreadful.
June 25, 2012
This was just meh. It felt like a TV show where the original creator is gone and others are writing--the pieces are all there, but the magic is gone. I put it down halfway and almost didn't finish it.
November 9, 2014
Pur essendo una buona storia, si nota l'assenza di Moore ai testi. I richiami, le citazioni, appaiono vuote, prive di quell'ironia che aveva caratterizzato la prima, originale miniserie, dedicata ai poliziotti del 10° distretto.
January 21, 2008
Alan Moore n'est plus au scénario. La série prend sa vitesse de croisière mais perd de sa capacité à étonner.
July 30, 2008
The author of this should be shot and his corpse should be left in the street for crows to gnaw
April 28, 2009
That's it, that's the ending? What a let down. The only reason I'm giving 3 stars is that the writer was overall true to the characters.
September 7, 2009
not as good as the first to books or top ten, still better than preacher
January 21, 2011
Without Alan Moore, there was an expected drop off in the writing and story, but still a decent effort that continues the adventures of the Science Heroes in the 10nth Precinct of Neopolis.
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