A review by zach_collins
Gun Machine by Warren Ellis

2.0

Better than the juvenile Transmetropolitan, but this will probably be my last time to read Ellis. Some great dialogue (swearing is truly a lost art, and Ellis is one of the few writers I know of who can still get some mileage out of those tired four-letter words) but the characters were just blah and the the mystery/investigation was anything but thrilling. When it became obvious what the killer was doing and why (spoiler alert, creating gun art because he was crazier than a snow-cone salesman in Siberia) I hoped Ellis would focus more on the humor, but nope, just steadily trudging toward the end with very few surprises and about as many laughs. Oh well.