Novi Warren Ellis

[Dreamlord]

OK. Ovako.

U pitanju je novi Warren Ellis maxi series od 12 issue-a, pod imenom Jack Cross... Crtez na ovom serijalu je vlasnistvo za mene licno neimpresivnog Gary Erskine-a ali uvek dajem sansu svemu sto Mr. Ellis napise. E sada konkretno issue #1 putuje prema meni dok ovo pisem ali da dam mali summary.

U pitanju je spijunsko-akciona prica o Jack Cross-u, coveku koji dobija drugu sansu i izlazak iz zatvora u nameri da pronadje odbeglog kontraobavestajca. Cela radnja je smestena u post 11.9. Ameriku gde se vodi tajni rat obavestajnih sluzbi. Na prvi pogled deluje kao price teorije zavere ali nisam imao prilike da procitam prvi issue pa ne mogu da dam komentar na to...

Ajmo ljudi. Komentari ako je neko citao ovo i da li vredi da se pukne lova za pretplatu na svih 12 issue-a.

Pozdrav

[maccak]

Znam da si ti već surfao i ovo već gledao, ali postavljam zbog drugih, a i da ovaj topic malo živne

[maccak]

The one thing scary times need is a scary man. In a new ongoing thriller from Warren Ellis, Jack Cross more than fits the bill. Perhaps he's even scarier than the America he lives in.
There's a war in the streets and a war in the shadows. While terrorists are whacked, buildings are blown sky-high, and suitcase nukes are sought, the nation's intelligence agencies take turns spooking the hell out of each other. Enter Jack Cross, political activist and the maverick's maverick. An old flame finds and pulls him out of official non-existence to break a rogue agent who turned on his own Homeland Security anti-terrorist team. For the job he gets two million and two more years of freedom. With total carte-blanche to get the job done, Jack shows up at a DHS facility, where it doesn't take long for him to peg the rogue as a CIA plant. "There's only been one war since 9-11," he says after a bit of torture, "and that's been between the intel agencies." But perhaps there's a war going on inside Jack, too.
It only takes one panel, in which a DHS suit sneers, "America doesn't need people like you," to which Jack responds, "Are you sure about that?" for Warren Ellis to show the spine of Jack Cross' character. He's classic Ellis—an outsider with his own code willing to go where insiders won't—in a classic Ellis plot—one in which the world we carelessly take to be real is but a curtain, pulled back, after much ass-kicking by the protagonist, to reveal something much darker, dangerous and more screwed-up than we could imagine. Except for one or two new character wrinkles, it's standard Ellis stuff. And yet, Jack Cross works for me because of something else that's classic Ellis—Jack Cross himself has a distinctive voice. It's techy and hard-boiled at the same time, with definite anti-authoritarian undercurrents, as well as a streak of a personality disorder. I like it. I wish more writers, particularly a few with well known names, understood as Ellis does that how main characters sound distinguishes them for the reader as much what they look like or what they do.
On other matters of technique, there's not much suspense in Jack Cross, and the torture runs perhaps a page too long, but Ellis' economical set-up and pacing are otherwise well done. And the theme he touches on—that terror doesn't just take place on a grand stage, but also in those little, hidden places we might not choose to consider—is intriguing from a political as well as a psychological point of view. It's particularly driven home on the last page. Instead of a cliffhanger, we get something that tides us over to issue #2 just as well—a powerful glimpse at the war Jack wages with himself.
I've liked Gary Erskine's work in the past, particularly on The Filth and City of Silence. The illustrations in Jack Cross #1, however, are largely unimpressive, feeling done-by-the-numbers at times and rushed at others. His characters seem anesthetized, and often, the bottom of page 9 for example, are rendered as little more than posed action figures, sometimes with closed eyes and mouths while speaking. While there are only a few pages of true "action," for the most part Erskine's images convey little energy or movement, and in the second half of the issue some of his up-angles on faces are distorted. Adding to the lifeless, rushed feeling of the art, a panel at the bottom of page 12 is simply duplicated in smaller scale on page 13. Then there are those bizarre bullet effects on pages 2 and 3, as if the characters, instead of being shot, are about to ignite in a blaze brought on by spontaneous human combustion. However, in the final pages, once Jack has done his thing, Erskine settles in and shows more consideration for his characters, capturing some unexpectedly complex emotional reactions in the midst of the scene's calculated violence.
Not as manic and chock full of bizarre ideas as Desolation Jones, nor as slick and inspired as Global Frequency, but certainly not as dry as Ocean, with Jack Cross Ellis offers an interesting take on the domestic spy game that has enough character potential to bring me back for issue #2.

[sandman]

Ne marim nesto za Ellisa i davno sam prestao da pratim negovu hiper-produkciju (mada, priznajem, Jack Cross mi na prvi pogled deluje znatno bolje od uobicajenog proseka) ali da je covek institucija, jeste. Nedavno je otvorio forum na kome su ucesnici scenaristi, crtaci, urednici, bojdzije, tuseri i drugi manje ili vise bitni za industriju. Na sajtu mozete naleteti na postove faca kakve su Andy Diggle, Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith ili Ed Brubaker i procitati njihovo misljenje sta je od stripova popularno ove nedelje, koje mange preporucuju ili kako na koji nacin razlazu ideje u scenario (ako su scenaristi)

U svakom slucaju, vrlo intrigantno

http://www.the-engine.net/forum/

[maccak]

Sa gmail naloga (USERNAME:blrk001, PASSWORD:stripovi.com) možete skinuti kompletnu prvu epizodu ovog stripa.

[sandman]

Moram da priznam da sam se navukao na ENGINE forum pa evo jedne vesti za fanove Ellisa (iako ja nisam): najnovi Ellisov i Bill Templesmithov naslov FELL #1 lansiran pre neki dan u Americi u novom formatu - 16 stana stripa za tricavih dolar i po! Vec se najavljuje citava kanonada jeftinih izdanja u ovom formatu i spekulise da li ce Bendis i Brubaker iskoristi ovaj format da se vrate noir stripovima u autorskom vlasnistvu kakve su pisali na pocetku karijere.

[DušMan]

Bill Templesmith? Benov brat ili greska u kucanju?

[sandman]

Primedba na mestu. BEN TEMPLESMITH, covek je radio Hellspawn, 30 Days of Night i sve spin-offove i prakticno lansirao Stivea Nilesa, po meni krajnje osrednjeg scenaristu. Priznajem da sam radoznao da vidim sta ce doneti saradnja sa ipak bar dve duzine jacim Ellisom

Bill Templesmith (sest i po) i dalje pokusava da dosegne tehniku svog znatno popularinjeg brata ali mu krede u boji i nerazumevanje vaspitacica otezavaju posao  

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Eh Ellis... ni on ni Morrison ni Ennis davno nisu napisali nesto sto valja...mozda se Morrison jos malo drzi. Gaimana da ne pominjem.

[maccak]

Sad sam bio na IMAGE COMICS sajtu i vidio najavu za Ellisov Fell 03, mislio sam da je to  strip iz ovog topica kad ono međutim...