Ignition City #4 (OF 5)
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Where did the space heroes go to die? A major new series by Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics -- a retro-punk 'future of the past' where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. Mary Raven has to die. Today might be Mary Raven's last day on Earth, trapped on the last spaceport where no-one cares about murder and the only real currency is fear. She has her dead father's raygun, and that's enough for space hero turned arms dealer Lightning Bowman to want her dead. But she also has her dead father's diary. And now she knows something no-one else in the settlement does...and they'll want her dead for that, too...
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Gianluca Pagliarani
Price: $3.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 0.91%
Reviews
| User | Added | Spoilers | |
| Quinn | 07/30/09 | No | Read Review |
| vadamowens | 07/29/09 | No | Read Review |
| shenanigans | 07/29/09 | No | Read Review |
Comments
I just finished reading the first one and loved it. I will be done with #2 & #3 by Wednesday! Can't wait. :D
Posted by AmirCat on 07/27/09 at 08:17 PM
this book smells funny but reads wonderfully!!
Posted by edward on 07/27/09 at 09:07 PM
@edward It does smell funny. Many of the independent books do. (IDW, Boom...)
Enjoying this book, not loving it though.
Posted by PraxJarvin on 07/27/09 at 09:09 PM
@prax: yes, it does smell funny, doesn't it?
yes it does
it does, doesn't it?
i'm liking this thing.
Posted by edward on 07/27/09 at 10:41 PM
All those Avatar books smell like love to me. I agree with prax though. I'm not loving this, but I think I will by the end of this arc.
Posted by vadamowens on 07/27/09 at 10:52 PM
LOOOOOVE this book.
LOOOOOVE Avatar. They have been rockin latley.
Posted by doddzilla on 07/28/09 at 02:52 AM
Absolutely loving this. I must agree that Avatar has been killing it lately.
Posted by kwisdumb on 07/28/09 at 03:30 AM
My first Avatar book was Crossed #1, which I totally and completely hated (admittedly, I was unprepared for how disturbing that book intended to be). The fact that I can now smell that distinctive (and terrible--seriously, they can't fix that?) Avatar paper smell and not have it bring up unpleasant and unwanted imagery is a testament to how much I've enjoyed Ignition City. Any chance Ellis will return to the world of Ignition City when this series wraps?
Posted by mrlogical on 07/28/09 at 09:44 AM
@Vadamowens
Actually the Avatar books smell like cancer causing asbestos, but I do enjoy this issues.
Posted by AmirCat on 07/28/09 at 12:14 PM
@mrlogical It will be continued the same as Locke & Key, in seperate arcs.
Posted by vadamowens on 07/28/09 at 01:11 PM
The preview is great: http://www.avatarpress.com/2009/07/27/ignition-city-4-preview/
I also love Avatar's comic viewer, I'd seriously pay for comics through that.
Posted by MacAoidh on 07/28/09 at 08:32 PM
Oh, apparently it's a service called Issuu.com for online magazines etc. Should definitely be more widely used...
Posted by MacAoidh on 07/28/09 at 08:37 PM
It's been suggested to me the smell is because they're more freshly printed than your DC/Marvel books when you get them. In the future, people will lament the days when their Avatar books smelled fresh.
Posted by southbymidwest on 07/28/09 at 10:44 PM
They smell like someone put their love all over them!
.......er
Posted by cromulent on 07/29/09 at 12:24 AM
Doh, I buy my books from HeavyInk, and my shipping status for this issue just got bumped from shipping today to "running late from publisher." Late for everyone, or just late for me/my store?
Posted by mrlogical on 07/29/09 at 03:21 PM
I made this my potw entirely based on smell.
Posted by shenanigans on 07/30/09 at 02:25 AM
IT SMELLS OF SCIENCE!
Posted by Heroville on 07/30/09 at 02:11 PM
@mrlogical Late for you. My store had it.
Good issue. 4/5. Nothing special. "Science Will Fuck You!"
Posted by PraxJarvin on 07/30/09 at 06:05 PM
@ Heroville... perfect.
Posted by ButchCassidy on 07/30/09 at 08:45 PM
5/5 for sure, but not the strongest issue of the run. I felt like it was missing some of the magic from the first few issues, but it was still spectacular. After DETECTIVE COMICS and PROOF it's not really a contender for POW, unfortunately.
SCIENCE WILL FUCK YOU.
Posted by kwisdumb on 07/31/09 at 05:01 AM
Warren Ellis comics always have the best lines.
Posted by theegreatone on 08/11/09 at 01:50 AM
Ignition City has been a great series. I often hear complaints about Avatar's coloring, but in this case I see no problem at all. It's a beautiful book.
Posted by J4K3 on 07/27/09 at 07:25 PM