Black Gas #1 Avatar Press

Picked this up on a whim after seeing Warren Ellis' name on the cover, and boy am I glad! From the get go the book feels like a familiar slasher horror film, smart-ass comments coming from a teenage couple as they stroll up the docks of a tiny island off the east coast of America. The characters and their roles within the book are instantly recognisable, though they don't feel like standard, cookie-cutter cliche slasher characters. They're likable and uncontrived. The dialogue is consistently fantastic, each character definitely has their own voice and th pacing of the book is spot on. This was a fantastic set up issue, I'll certainly be following the rest of the series and I urge everyone else with smidgen of bloodlust to join me.