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Excellent premise and thoughtful writing - of *course* having the power to fly should have a physical cost. Why has no one thought this super-powers stuff through like Ellis before?
Ellis does these themes well: coping with disfigurement, newfound/not-understood powers, control of the masses, hypocritical hero complex.
I'm always game for a good run with messed up "heroes". ...more
Ellis does these themes well: coping with disfigurement, newfound/not-understood powers, control of the masses, hypocritical hero complex.
I'm always game for a good run with messed up "heroes". ...more
This is part two of Warren Ellis' three part thematically linked group of stories on the super hero in society. Black Summer showed us both the good and the bad that could come of those with powers trying to right the world to the way they thought it would be.
Again, here as in Black Summer the road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions. Arguably there is no good or evil, but layers of people, governments, and possibly corporations all seeking control, power and wealth. In some ways the story do ...more
Again, here as in Black Summer the road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions. Arguably there is no good or evil, but layers of people, governments, and possibly corporations all seeking control, power and wealth. In some ways the story do ...more
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