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A review by kaleovens
Gun Machine by Warren Ellis
3.0
Warren Ellis loves beautiful metaphors, weird history, smoking, violence and weirdos who threaten each other.
I like reading those things, so I liked this. But it's a minor work. It has the sharp deja-vu feeling of a two-parter episode of CSI.
'Weird psycho with plan versus tired over-educated cop' as a trope has very little juice left in it. Ellis successfully squeezes a little more out of it, but I'm a bit disappointed he even tried.
Ellis's comic work was characterized by it's ambition. But his prose writing so far has been pretty timid.
Mr. Ellis: please write another book, and take some more chances. Bigger scale and characters who want things other than a nap and a smoke.
I like reading those things, so I liked this. But it's a minor work. It has the sharp deja-vu feeling of a two-parter episode of CSI.
'Weird psycho with plan versus tired over-educated cop' as a trope has very little juice left in it. Ellis successfully squeezes a little more out of it, but I'm a bit disappointed he even tried.
Ellis's comic work was characterized by it's ambition. But his prose writing so far has been pretty timid.
Mr. Ellis: please write another book, and take some more chances. Bigger scale and characters who want things other than a nap and a smoke.