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Aetheric Mechanics (2004)

by Warren Ellis(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1592910483 (ISBN13: 9781592910489)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Avatar Press

review 1: Re-read. Major plot spoilers occur...Aetheric Mechanics is a short black and white comic (called a graphic novella) with nicely detailed art and I'd consider it to be a modern day steam-punk Sherlock Holmes concept used with derivatives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original cast. The thrust of the plot was one I found where a derivative of, say, Dr. Who shows up needing to fix the universe, but the twist at the end has Holmes killing off the "Doctor" so that the literary Doyle characters can continue on living. Afterward Holmes seeks to solve the problem "Dr. Who" was working on so hopefully the knock off wasn't in vein. In typically Ellis fashion, he brings his own smart voice and makes a convincing Sherlock Holmes.
review 2: The art is lovely - black and whit... moree line drawings with few blocks of black ink - it looks like a complicated colouring-in book, actually - and the steampunky Edwardian age plus airships is great fun. The story lets the art down. The characters are shamelessly Sherlockian - Doyle's immortals with the serial numbers filed off. However, the plot is weak. The resolution feels hasty. The story is not as good as the art that tells it. less

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