A review by pearseanderson
Blackcross by Warren Ellis

4.0

I was thrown into this story, discovering pretty quickly that it was connected preestablished superheroes because I felt like it was all a soft reboot. But it was a good soft reboot. Ellis promised a lot: a mysterious location, a small town, complications, but that wasn't really here. These events could've taken place anywhere, and they followed a pretty simple origin-story background. But DAMN was that origin-story setup rewarding, to see strangers come together and discover their backgrounds and powers and whatnot. So it was fun, but when I finished I tried to see if there was a continuation, but I couldn't see. It just ended. All these interesting characters and a small series of conflicts and then one (maybe?) dies and the others do . . . what? What's going on?

So structure/infodumping: brilliant—it confused me but filled in enough that I didn't have to read other comics
Plot: eh
Coloring/art: brilliant
Ending: what?