A review by trike
The Wild Storm Vol. 1, by Warren Ellis
3.0
The [b:WildC.A.T.S: Cover-Action-Teams|22061386|WildC.A.T.S Cover-Action-Teams (Colección Libros Image Wildcats, #1)|Jim Lee|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1452101669s/22061386.jpg|694092] and related books came out in a time when I was no longer reading comics. Going to work, getting a mortgage, other old people stuff, that’s what I was into then. Well, not “into” but certainly “doing”. I have since read a couple collections of [b:Planetary, Volume 1: All Over the World and Other Stories|209966|Planetary, Volume 1 All Over the World and Other Stories|Warren Ellis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1374683466s/209966.jpg|423192] and [b:The Authority, Vol. 1: Relentless|546887|The Authority, Vol. 1 Relentless|Warren Ellis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1518640805s/546887.jpg|534153], but I don’t recall much about them. Interdimensional snarky superheroes and space adventurers or something.
So this reboot is neither triggering fond nostalgia nor angering me for its sacrilege. It’s just an interesting sci-fi story about superscience and the corporate battles between international tech companies. (Apple, Microsoft and Samsung, perhaps?)
To that end it was fairly interesting, but hardly ground-shaking. The snark is still there, but then it’s Warren Ellis, so of course it is, but this is really just the set-up for the story. The characters are introduced and the world is explained, and then... cliffhanger!
The art is fine and stuff, but I’ll have to read the next installment to see how this plays out.
So this reboot is neither triggering fond nostalgia nor angering me for its sacrilege. It’s just an interesting sci-fi story about superscience and the corporate battles between international tech companies. (Apple, Microsoft and Samsung, perhaps?)
To that end it was fairly interesting, but hardly ground-shaking. The snark is still there, but then it’s Warren Ellis, so of course it is, but this is really just the set-up for the story. The characters are introduced and the world is explained, and then... cliffhanger!
The art is fine and stuff, but I’ll have to read the next installment to see how this plays out.