![]() ![]() ![]() Aside from his highly skilled line-work and amazingly expressive characters he successfully mixes styles more than any over. Williams art is praised high and low and for very good reason. So I guess I wish I was a sharp-tongued loner equally skilled at kicking arse and taking names. To me heroes resonate best when they ring some aspirational bell inside you. ![]() Many criticise Ellis for writing the same type of protagonist time-after-time, yet I enjoy them so much that I cannot agree. Jones is yet another acerbic Ellis character, foul-mouthed yet fearless, his strange appearance and gruff manner hiding the heart within. ![]() Trapped there alongside many other ex-secret service types from around the world, LA operates as a type of holding cell for out of work spooks. In typical Ellis fashion this story is not for the faint-hearted, covering as it does Hitler’s secret sex tapes, the LA Porn Industry and an alcoholic Englishman tortured well past the edge of his humanity. There is a femme fatale, a client with hidden motives, a hard-bitten hero and a mystery that needs unravelling. Michael Jones, sole survivor of the Desolation Test is a private investigator in Los Angeles. Williams III with colours by Jose Villarubia and lettering by Todd Kleinĭesolation Jones is a detective story, one that tells a familiar tale. Written by Warren Ellis and drawn by J.H. ![]()
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