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Fell Vol. 1: Feral City Paperback – Illustrated, June 5, 2007

by Warren Ellis (Author), Ben Templesmith (Illustrator)
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  • Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something.
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    Image Comics
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    June 5, 2007
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    1582406936
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Warren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, MINISTRY OF SPACE and PLANETARY, and the author of the New York Times-bestselling GUN MACHINE and the “underground classic” novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name. Warren Ellis is currently writing a TV pilot for Universal Cable Productions and working on a non-fiction book about the future of the city for Farrar Giroux Straus. His next book will be the novella NORMAL, also from FSG.A documentary about his work, CAPTURED GHOSTS, was released in 2012.Recognitions include the NUIG Literary and Debating Society’s President’s Medal for service to freedom of speech, the EAGLE AWARDS Roll Of Honour for lifetime achievement in the field of comics & graphic novels, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2010, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the International Horror Guild Award for illustrated narrative. He is a Patron of the British Humanist Association, an Associate of the Institute of Atemporal Studies, and the literary editor of EDICT magazine.Warren Ellis lives outside London, on the south-east coast of England, in case he needs to make a quick getaway.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Image Comics; Illustrated edition (June 5, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1582406936
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1582406930
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.2 x 10 inches
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Warren Ellis is the author of the Amazon Top 100 2016 book NORMAL and the New York Times- bestselling GUN MACHINE, the writer of award-winning graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, PLANETARY and FELL, and is the creator and writer of global top ten streaming hit show CASTLEVANIA on Netflix.

The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name, its sequel having been released in summer 2013. His GRAVEL books are in development for film at Legendary Pictures. IRON MAN 3 is based on his Marvel Comics graphic novel IRON MAN: EXTREMIS. He's also written extensively for VICE, WIRED UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters.

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Warren Ellis lives outside London, on the south-east coast of England, in case he needs to make a quick getaway.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully different!
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2011
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Warren Ellis(Transmetropolitan, Iron Man: Extremis) and Ben Templesmith(30 Days of Night, Welcome To Hoxford) are both favorites of mine; and they both shine brightly here. This is one of the coolest graphic novels I've ever read. I've tried to find something out there that is similar to this, and I have yet to find anything. It's just so unique. It has this David Lynch-esque feel that gives off a weird, surrealistic vibe. It's this strange detective/crime drama with a dose of suspense, horror, mystery and bizarre humor injected deep into its muscle, releasing each ingredient at all the right times. Ultra cool stuff here.

Ellis scripts this story with a tantalizing plot, intrigueing characters, dialogue that is quirky and compelling, and fantastically odd atmosphere. There is nothing bad to say about his writing when it comes to this book. I would say that is true for most of the graphic novels he's written; although this book is probably my favorite.

Templesmith's artwork perfectly compliments the tone of the book. He has a very stylized look to his work that really plays up the surrealistic, hazy feel of the story. The whole thing kind of feels like a dream. This fits beautifully with Ben's expressionistic style. The avant-garde nature of it focuses more on creating an emotional experience in the reader rather than focusing on a more physically realistic, more 'house style' appearance. His art is realistic enough, but it distorts things a bit to evoke mood. I like it, and it works well here. I can't think of another artist who I would want to see on this title. Which brings me to the one downside to reading this graphic novel. There is no volume two. And to my knowledge, there isn't one in the works. I read somewhere that Ellis had the next several issues(I forget how many exactly) stored on file in his computer. Then for reasons I can't remember(it's been awhile since I read about it), they were lost. This led Ellis to just give up on the title and move on to other things. This is HUGELY disappointing! There are so many questions I had about the characters and what was going to happen next. The story is left open-ended, and finding out after reading it that it would stay that way was really upsetting. Part of me wishes I could go back and just never read this story to begin with because the pain of knowing that it will not be finished is so strong. In the end, however, it is just too brilliant a book to not want to have read - despite the open-ending.

So, if you can handle reading a graphic novel that will completely suck you in, taunt you with a longing to want to find out more, then just end without ever getting answers to the bountiful questions you will no doubt have, then I would highly recommend you check this one out. If, on the other hand, you are the kind of person who will go completely off your rocker knowing that you will never get anymore of this extremely addictive story, then I'd suggest that you maybe skip it. Still, having read it, I have to give it 5 stars. Though the fix is short and leaves you feeling like you're going to get severe withdrawals unless you get another fix really fast, the high is so amazing that I think it's worth the suffering.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, Moody, Disturbing, Fascinating...a look into the Dark Human Heart
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2007
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I noticed issue #1 of this comics series at my local comics store and, though at that time I had never heard of Ellis or Templesmith, I was attracted to it simply by the beauty and atmosphere of the cover.

When I read the first issue, I was hooked, and began to get the following ones. Then, I decided to wait for the bound edition, and pre-ordered it as soon as amazon.com allowed. Only cause I prefer bound to individual. Easier to shelve for me.

This series grabbed me because the art got my interest. I like Templesmith's style. I'm not art major or historian, so don't ask me to explain what it's like. Do a google and find panel examples from the series. It's a very evocative style, with this really cool use of colors that pop for emphasis--red in this panel, white in those.

It's the story of a cop who--and we don't know why--has done something that he thinks is right (but got him into trouble) in his previous town and is sent "across the bridge" to Snowtown. Snowtown is like the worst urban landscape from various major cities mashed together. No one seems to be undamaged. No one seems to be normal. Fell seems to be the most together of the lot, but he's harboring dark bits, although we sense a moral core. Or, as Mayko, his barkeeper girlfriend says, he's a good man--but one who sometimes does not so good things for the right reasons, we sense and, later, see.

He lives in a place void of real light--Snowtown seems to be enshrouded with some miasma of muted colors. His boss is a loony. There are only a couple other detectives (3 and a half to be precise, cause one lost his legs) on the Snowtown force. But Fell becomes a one-man crusade to make a damn difference. And we see him solving cases using his key talent: the ability to read people. He's observant and he's somewhat fearless. And Snowtown needs him.

But there may be something very much larger than Fell and darker than night hovering over this accursed place, that does make one think of hell.

But the worst parts of urban environments can seem like hell to its residents and the cops who have to work the darkness.

I really want to see where the characters of Fell and Mayko go, and what is the thing that controls this Inferno.

Interesting stuff. Visually very cool and very noir.

Mir
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N. Durham
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2008
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Warren Ellis' (Transmetropolitan, Thunderbolts, Desolation Jones, Astonishing X-Men, this list can go on and on...) brilliant crime fiction saga Fell is something you have to read to believe. Revolving around the incredibly skilled Detective Richard Fell, who has been transfered to Snowtown: a crime-ridden wasteland from which there may be no escape. As the area around him decays with every passing minute, Fell makes a number of encounters (most frequently with an eccentric bar-maid) with the townspeople, and comes to one conclusion in the end about them all: everybody is hiding something, including himself. Peppered with fantastic dialogue, Ellis manages to make Fell one of his most intriguing works of crime fiction, with Fell himself being one of his most interesting character creations. Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night) provides his typical dark and moody artwork, and it more than suits the atmosphere of the universe that Ellis crafts here. All in all, the first volume of Fell is a brilliant piece of crime fiction from one of the true modern day comic book masters, and it more than deserves your attention.
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C. Derick Varn
4.0 out of 5 stars Gritty
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2018
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Warren Ellis's detective story here is gritty, episodic and bleak. Dell'S atmosphere is dark, it's character design is vaguely ugly, and the citizens of Snowtown are just this side of hell. The problem, however, is that Fell doesn't seem to develop much as a character so far,and the love story at the core feels a bit unexplored.
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S. J. Hannaway
5.0 out of 5 stars Downbeat Cop Saga
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2023
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Really good piece of writing, the stories are great if a little depressing but you know what they say, if you can’t stand the heat don’t go near the fire ~
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Inigo
5.0 out of 5 stars Buena atmosfera gracias a Templesmith
Reviewed in Spain on December 31, 2017
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Comic muy bueno.
Te introduces en la atmosfera con buenos dibujos por parte de Templesmith. La historia es tranquila como su personaje principal.
Buena compra y buena edición.
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Jan-Niklas Bersenkowitsch
5.0 out of 5 stars Acht Episoden aus der weißen Hölle
Reviewed in Germany on July 2, 2013
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Wenn die Hölle ein richtiger Ort wäre, käme Snowtown ihr wohl am nächsten. Wahnsinnige, Suizidgefährdete, Perverse und unzählige gescheiterte Existenzen scheinen sich Zuhauf in dieser kleinen Stadt auf der anderen Seite einer Brücke zu häufen und niemand scheint freiwillig dort zu wohnen, wenn er keine finsteren Absicht hegt. Welche Sünde Detective Richard Fell wohl auch begangen hat ( er selbst sprich noch nicht darüber), er muss sich nun auf jeden Fall damit abfinden in Snowtown für eine Weile seinen Dienst schieben zu müssen. Er ist ein guter Cop, einer von den Besten und vielleicht kann man ihn als Segen für diesen Pfuhl der Verdammnis empfinden oder als eine schwere Prüfung für ihn, in deren Verlauf sich die Frage stellen wird ob ihn Snowtown nach einiger Zeit endgültig brechen wird...

"Fell: Feral City" ist eine Sammlung von acht kurzen Episoden, die sich alle mit verschiedenen Erlebnissen aus dem Polizistenalltags Richard Fells befassen. Die Episoden sind alle recht düster und reichen von bizarr bis hin zu zutiefst verstörend und zeigen ein finsteres Bild dieser Welt auf, dass jedoch nicht ganz ohne Hoffnung ist. Denn auch wenn Fell nicht immer gewinnt, so ist und bleibt er doch als Verkörperung der Gerechtigkeit eine Art Hoffnungsschimmer, selbst in einer solch stilisierten Vorhölle wie Snowtown eines ist. Es hilft auch sehr, dass er selbst eine recht sympathische Persönlichkeit ist, jemand der vielleicht etwas zu verbergen hat und dem manchmal das Temperament durchgeht, der jedoch alles in allem ein guter und anständiger Mensch ist, der noch nicht ganz Zynismus und Verzweiflung versinkt. Dadurch sind die Geschichten nicht ganz so trostlos und düster und es macht sogar Spaß sie zu lesen.

Was auch hilft ist der Humor, der hier und da an genau den richtigen Stellen aufblitzt. Zwar ist es die bizarrste und schwärzeste Art von Humor die man sich vorstellen kann, aber sie bringt einen durchaus zum lachen und lockert das bedrückende Gefühl, welches man teilweise beim lesen verspürt, durchaus auf, sodass man nicht allzu deprimiert ist.

Vom Inhalt her ist "Fell" also anständig gemacht und dürfte mit zum Besten gehören was der bekannte Comic- Autor Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitian, Planetary, Freakangels) jemals geschrieben hat, was bei einem so gewaltigen Output wie seinem durchaus ein Kompliment ist, doch wie sieht es zeichnerisch aus?

Vorhang auf für Ben Templesmith, dessen Zeichnungen fernab der Realität und mit ihren starken Farben regelrecht surreal wirken. Die von ihm gezeichneten Menschen sind oft nichts anderes als abstrakte Karikaturen mit oftmals deformierten Extremitäten, die scheinbar schon im nächsten Moment zu verschwinden gedenken. Und sie passen wie die Faust auf's Auge zu den inhaltlichen Aspekten Fells, geben ihnen erst recht jene alptraumhafte Atmosphäre, die Mister Ellis wohl beim schreiben vorschwebte und sind damit die perfekte Wahl für diese Serie gewesen. Hässlicher und düsterer geht es wohl kaum und anders soll es wohl auch nicht sein.

"Fell" ist damit also eine perfekte Krimiserie im Episodenformat (was auch beabsichtigt und von Anfang an geplant war) und wenn man einmal angefangen hat möchte man am liebsten, dass es ewig so weitergeht. Doch abgesehen von den bereits existierenden acht Episoden sind nur acht weitere geplant, womit die Serie wohl bald ihr Ende finden wird (sollte Mister Ellis es bald mal schaffen die restlichen sechs Episoden fertig zu schreiben und bei Mister Templesmith einzureichen), aber so bleibt es ihr wenigstens erspart eines Tages ihren Reiz und ihre Persönlichkeit zwischen zu vielen Episoden zu verlieren.

Und mit dem was man hat, hat man zumindest schon einen sehr guten Sammelband, einer sehr guten Ausnahmeserie, die zum immer wieder lesen einlädt.

5 Sterne und das mehr als verdient.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mindblowing
Reviewed in Canada on May 24, 2013
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The art style, characters, and story blend perfectly together. The chapter deal with mature themes but handle them tastefully. They content is not meant to be horrifying or shocking. Instead, it is an aid to draw you into the world Templesmith and Ellis have created.
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Ventura Angelo
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece dark crime novel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2010
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meet Richard Fell, a detective tranferred (or demoted?) to a grim, desperate town where crime, poverty and utter moral misery and decay have engulfed the city in a poison worst than the smog and the grime. Richard Fell finds himself in a destitute police department run by a bonkers lieutenant and short of personnel, yet he doesn't lose his determinatio and his acrid humour, covering an inner vulnerability. and indeed, Richard fell seems to have an secret in his past, like many characters in Ellis' series. The art is utterly surreal, and the story athmospheric, sometimes horrific, sometimes melancholic.. With freakangels and Transmetropolitan, one of Ellis' masterpieces.
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