City of Silence
Image Comics.
City of Silence (3-issue mini; done and solicited for Epic in mid-90s,
but the company folded; published by Image in 2000; w Warren Ellis; a Gary
Erskine). [From Image Comics: The future is bad for
you. In a place where everyone has the technology to create brand-new, weird
sciences ten times a day, there are policemen who will hunt you down for
having a bad idea. They are the Silencers. And the investigation of a dead
kid with a silicon pentagram on his neck opens up a whole box of bad ideas
upon a city that only survives through silence... Issues #1-3 of the mini-series
are collected into this trade paperback. Originally created and produced
in the mid-Nineties and prefiguring his Transmetropolitan in its approach
and themes, City of Silence is among Warren Ellis' first work for American
publishers with artwork by Gary Erksine. Never before collected into one
volume, this tech-noir masterpiece has waited patiently for the times to
catch up with it. Now, it's finally run out of patience.] 