Written by Warren EllisArt by Gianluca Pagliarani
I think this issue was much better than the last, and that this might be the best of the Warren Ellis series published by Avatar in the last few years. So much effort has been put into developing Ignition City as a setting that I sincerely hope this is not going to be a one-off mini-series.
The notion of a settlement of ex-space adventurers and random aliens being 'like Tangiers' is a fertile one for many stories, especially from someone like Ellis, whose love of the genre is so well known.
In this issue, Mary learns a great deal about the city, and has an interesting talk with Gayle about why she has chosen to stick around, instead of moving off-world. This becomes an opportunity for some visually stunning flashbacks. In fact, the general look of this book keeps getting better, as Pagliarani takes the inherent optimism of space travel and dirties it up quite a bit.
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