Cemetery Beach

So yeah I just finished the explosive breakneck sci-fi action thriller Cemetery Beach written by God himself Warren Ellis with fast fun and fresh art by Jason Howard, published by Image comics, now I have a lot of love for this creative team as I absolutely love their other book Trees, but this book kind of bucks the trend of Ellis' new style of moody slow-burning narratives and goes full-on non-stop action and mayhem like The Raid mixed with Fury Road after 5 Red Bulls, and I have to say it's a total blast from start to finish! The story for this one is about an army recon spy sent to an off-world colony established in secret, he gets caught and makes a quick escape with a local subversive named Grace Moody, the rest is them cutting a bloody chaotic path to Cemetery Beach and back to earth! I love this, as the book in a few ways reminds me of another newer book by Ellis, Shipwreck only cranked up to 15 with nothing but nos in the gas lines! I can't recommend this highly enough!

I was surprised by the number of critical reviews of this comic. Lots of people put it down for lacking substance or emotional depth. In an edition of Orbital Operations, Ellis’ fantastic weekly newsletter, Ellis said of Cemetery Beach, “…this one all started with Jason and I finishing up volume 2 of Trees and my saying, “You want to go into volume 3, or do you want to do a palate-cleanser kind of thing?” And Jason sobbing “oh god yes please.” We decided to do an action piece. Jason likes to moodboard, in a way, and sends me art and photography he likes that sort of surround a space he’d like to play in. In the meantime, I was working out how to do an action piece that would also be an appalling punishment for Jason.”I think Cemetery Beach is exactly what it set out to be, a delightfully relentless, Fury Road-ish chase across a 1980s-ish dystopian sci-fi off world colony where everyone is at least as mad as the Mad Hatter. The art is fantastic and, so help me, whenever Warren Ellis puts words to paper or screen, I’m there to read them and I’m never disappointed. No matter where he takes me, I always feel I’m in good, unrelentingly creative hands. And no matter where his stories are set or who is doing the talking, there’s something about his dialogue that feels like home sweet-snarky home.

"Utopia" comes from the Greek ou-topos meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere'. Yep, that sounds about right.Picture if you will; in the 1920s, a group of industrialists and scientists discovered a method to travel to another world. Not a very *good* world, but for some(many) of us, "another" is reason enough.It takes about 100 years for the world they left behind to realize this, and send a somewhat suicidal specialist to see what those people found.And so begins Warren Ellis' version of Mad Max: Fury Road; A man, a woman, a world that has literally gone mad, and a nonstop chase across what is ultimately dubbed Giant Toilet Planet. There will be fistfights, knife fights, gunfights, and every single vehicle shown *will* explode.I hope Ellis returns to this world to tell more stories just as I hope George Miller returns to his wastelands to do the same, but my only real question is, "Why hasn't Amazon Prime Video made a series out of this?"

Here we have a world created by outer planets colonization. The other colony grew separately from our society and thus our main character has a adventure. It feels like the greatest action movie. Can't wait for the next volume.

This is different than a lot of other work by Ellis in that it starts in the middle of the action rather than slowly builds a world and characters and conflicts.The art is decent - there are a great many chase and fight scenes and lots of explosions. There are just enough sci-fi elements and societal criticism to give it the distinctive Ellisian flavor. A fun book. Not deep. Quick and easy.

Fast paced. Fun read with clever dialogue. Left me wanting more!

Quick and non-stop. Great illustration and dialogue for a fast paced story. Very, very happy. Like a fractured action movie, in the best way possible.

A Terran spy, a murdering criminal. Both team up on a lost colony full of insane inhabitants. Ellis has all the action and violence he's known for, but the story is just ok.

Cemetery Beach is a fantastic Warren Ellis-written comic. Full of classic Ellis dialogue parts, and cover-to-cover action. The art by Jason Howard is a lot of fun. The story might really appeal to long-time fans of Warren Ellis stories. It might be a little inscrutable to readers new to Ellis.

An und für sich eine gute Storyidee.Leider ist die Umsetzung eine schier endlose Wiederholung von schiessen, rennen, etwas explodiert und es geht wieder von vorne los.Der eher krude Zeichenstil reisst es dann leider für mich auch nicht raus.