Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral
district whose police roster numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs).
Dumped in this collapsing urban trash zone, Richard Fell is starting all over again.
In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows

to be true: Everybody's hiding something. Even him.

Homicide Detective Richard Fell just transferred from  'over the bridge'  to the Moon St. precinct in  Snowtown .
Detective Fell's  investigation technique is based mostly on his talent as an observer of small details,  which comes handy right away, since he has no sooner moved into his new apartment before one of his  neighbors drops dead, apparently of natural causes. Fell suspects that the poor guy might have been murdered .

Shortly after he goes to Moon St. precinct (which, by the way, it's the only precinct in Snowtown) where he meets Lt. Berard (the classic, disillusioned and fatalist police Lieutenant) and a secretary/typist  that keeps complaining about her husband leaving her for her dog .

Leaving the precinct Fell goes to Idiot's Bar, a seedy dive, where he manages to impress the cute owner/bartender named Mayko who takes him to her home at the end of her shift where, instead of getting sex,  Fell gets branded .

Smartly he leaves. On his way home Fell witnesses an attempted robbery, kicks the wannabe robber's butt,  recognizes the victim as the daughter of the guy who dropped dead in his apartment building earlier that day . Walking her home the two talk and , during that talk, the girl gives Fell a hint that'll enable him to prove that her father  didn't die of natural causes and also find  the killer.

"Fell" is the newest monthly ongoing series published by Image Comics and yes, you didn't read wrong, the cover price is only $1.99. It's true the comic book is 'only' 24 pages - cover included -and the story itself is 'only' 16 pages, but in those 16 pages Warren and Templesmith manage to put as much, or even more, story than the average 22 pages comic book.

Writing : we know Warren Ellis knows how to tell a story and Fell #1 is not an exception .

Art : Ben and Warren work "Fell" in the classic nine panels grid, but that takes nothing away from Ben Templesmith's art, in fact quite the opposite.

The art on this issue is more clean than Ben's art on 30 Days of Night series and its sequels, but still of great impact, dark, moody... a perfect

fit for the story.

The last 4 pages of this issue contain afterwords by Warren Ellis.Even that a very interesting read .

The score: 5 out of 5