Warren Ellis is damn good writer. Which is why I sometimes don't like him putting images in my head, which happens a lot with Fell.

Ellis seems to look for and find all the messed up crapped people do to each other, which he jots down for use in a story elsewhere. Fell really brings this stuff out because it's about Snowtown, a part of the city, where all the human trash has been place. Think ghetto on Riker's Island and you get the idea. It has its own rules and brand of crazy and the rest of the city is only too glad to leave it there.

In Fell #6, the main character, Detective Richard Fell, takes a personal day, since his boss has decided to learn magic to deal with the crime in Snowtown. Yeah, it's that kinda book, BUT GOOD. He tries to spend with a woman he's interested in. Naturally he gets caught up a case, a domestic one, involving a mother, a father and a kid. It's a messed up situation, one of those things you might read about from a social worker's case notes. Just another slice of human cruelty, served up in well told story.

So yeah, it's good, like all of Fell has been. But I'm starting to dread it each mouth, 'cause it likes to linger in dark places.

Here's a link to the first issue, all online.