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misterfix's review
3.0
I am sorry but I must agree with the majority of other reviews - Smoke solid and Ashes inconsistent and all over the place. Sometimes the different artists helped and other times it felt forced as if they couldn't afford or schedule to have a consistent artist. Ending of both series were disappointing. On a positive note Smoke is gorgeous and engaging, with believable characters and a story that was unusual yet believable. Was truly rooting for Alex and hoping that Smoke would deliver the goods but... nope.
stewartfritz's review
2.0
"Smoke" is so much better than "Ashes". Unfortunately, this means that basically you're left with a pretty meh overall title because the great first half ends on a sort-of cliffhanger that's not well resolved in the mediocre second half. The art is decent in the first book, but in the second book ranges all over the place from reasonably good to pedestrian to downright terrible. Given the praise for this one I was expecting a lot better.
stgts's review
1.0
The good things in this book - the ideas that are never followed through, Nathaniel's inventive digital space - are so dragged down by the muck, the distractingly different changes in the art, the incessant picking at the dignity of anyone who is not a loner black-ops assassin. You could call that tragic, I guess, but it's hard not to feel like all the things I really enjoyed in this book are essentially accidents, which makes Kieron Gillen's fawning preface even more distasteful. My assumption is that he spent two pages mythologizing the author because he didn't have anything nice to say about the book either.
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