Ignition City #1
Avatar Press
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Gianluca Pagliarani
Inker(s): Chris Drier
Colourist(s): Digikore Studios
Cover Artist(s): Gianluca Pagliarani & Chris Drier
$3.99 US
Summary
Where did the space heroes go to die? A major new series by Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics, in the alternate-world style of the award-winning Ministry Of Space and Aetheric Mechanics – a retro-punk ‘future of the past’ where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. 1956. Personal space flight is becoming illegal all over the world. Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has to journey to Earth’s last spaceport, the island of Ignition City, to recover her dead father’s effects – and discovers, there in the lawless interzone of the ramshackle settlement raised inside the ring of launch pads, that her father died on the wrong end of a ray-gun. She’s not going to leave until she finds out who killed Rock Raven, but there’s a lot of people who’d rather feed her to the recycling chipper first!
Ignition City #1 Reviews
All critic scores are converted to a 10-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...Ignition City offers an interesting new world for Ellis to explore. I'm not immediately sold on the series in the way I was with Planetary, Transmetropolitan, or many of Ellis' best works, but it's a good start.
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If you have a hankering to see a Buck Rogers stand-in lament no longer being in the future and drinking himself to death as a way of forgetting the present, or ever wanted to know what eating food in pill form would do to bowel movements, then, hey, Ellis and Pagliarani deliver.
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Ignition City has a lot of characters in it who seem to be able to contribute to a decent series, and while it is taking more than a single issue to get off the ground, Warren Ellis has something of interest.
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Despite being a bit tedious, I found myself turning the last page, wanting to find out more. For a first issue, it’s not bad….but for Warren Ellis? I expect a little more.
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I couldn’t help but notice that the score given to this book is 5.8, but none of the reviews are below 7. If averaged they equal 7.4
Now I don’t know what algorithm is being used here, but I doubt it’s supposed to give a number 1.2 points less that the lowest review.
Thanks for bringing this bug to my attention. It’s been fixed.