Clockwork Angels

Stefano

at 5:05 pm

Review by Stefano for Clockwork Angels
Rating: (1 / 5)
As a steely stainless fan of Warren Ellis’s, I bought this book in the same moment I noticed him presented as “Author”. That is true in a very very VERY marginal (and unsatisfactory) measure: he simply writes the introduction to this comic. As an addictional delusion, his review is (incredibly!) a strong eulogy for the artist, of whom Warren (tu quoque!) appreciates the courage, the graphic skill and the sensibility for feminine psychology. None of these traits justifies the reading (and even less the buying) of this comic: the drawing are quite awful (as if someone’s trying to copy a manga style lacking the minimum skill required), the story goes here and there with no real reason and dialogues are verbose and superfluous, rich of ostentatious witticism. Ellis will keep on being my favorite writer, but his opinion, in this case, is absolutely wrong. Keep your money and your time.