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4. Fell

Oh, god, yes!

Fell is a dark, dour detective tale riddled with creepy symbolism and human drama. The book tells the story of Detective Richard Fell, a police detective forced to work in Snowtown as punishment for an unknown event. Snowtown is a bad bad place and Fell has to force himself through each day of dealing with it. Between suicide bombers, branding, and those goshdarn dogs, he has his work more than cut out for him.

Plus, the Nun. The Nun is terrifying.

Master writer Warren Ellis crafts a great character and mythology but artist Ben Templesmith really sells this book with his beautiful and haunting art. Templesmith is best known for 30 Days of Night, but I’d say Fell is a much better example of his craft, especially the use of the nine panel grid. As a comic book process dork, nine-panel grids make me lose my mind.

Odds of returning: 1 in 5. The series would have wrapped up some time ago if Warren Ellis’s laptop hadn’t been stolen with the scripts for the final issues on them. He and Templesmith have said that they’re working on the rest of the book, but at a slowed-down pace. But there’s always a chance the book will simply be left by the wayside, especially since that exact thing happened to Ellis’s other series, Desolation Jones.