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[[File:Fell_-1_cover_9146.jpg|frame|Detective Fell]]
▲{{quote| "You hear that? Every time you take one... I'm going to take one back."}}
One day, [[Warren Ellis]] thought to himself that comic books were, comparably, a pretty expensive hobby. Spend the same amount of money on a movie or book, and not only would you be entertained for a longer period of time, but you'd get a whole story arc, to boot.
Picking up artist [[Ben Templesmith]], fresh from an exhausting run on ''[[
Fell is a [[Police Procedural]] centering around a detective who transfers to the slum-like Snowtown, a so-called "feral city" - largely lacking an organized government providing such things as running water or child protection services, populated by drug dealers, murderers, psychopaths, man-eating packs of de-domesticated dogs and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|one crazy nun]]. There, he must deal with a [[Crapsack World]] of [[Black and Gray Morality]].
Templesmith's murky and unsettling art lends a complementary mood to the [[Darker and Edgier]] comic. However, Detective Fell is not an [[Anti
Fan reaction to ''Fell'' has been largely positive, not in the least due to an appreciation of Ellis' desire to keep prices down but still deliver a complete story with good art, and not resorting to cliffhangers or slow pacing to increase profits.
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* [[Arc Words]]: Arc symbol, which is a protection symbol that is burned onto Richard Fell's neck in the first issue and seen scrawled on structures across Snowtown.
* [[Autopsy Snack Time]]: In one scene, the coroner of Snowtown eats his sandwich above a cadaver. One of the sandwich's tomatoes falls onto the cadaver; however, [[Nausea Dissonance|this doesn't stop the coroner from picking it back up and eating it.]]
* [[Crapsack World]]: Snowtown is an incredibly grim place. Somehow, Fell doesn't let that get to him.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: The suicide bomber, at least initially.
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* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Detective Fell shot a man who was in the process of filling a grocery store's produce with sharp objects. "It was self defense. He was armed, after all, with Death Bananas."
* [[Klatchian Coffee]]: The "Death Coffee" from Mr. Yang the Food Pervert. ''"He melts a Hershey Bar into a pot of filter coffee, pours a 16oz and then drops a depth-charge of espresso on it. And maybe crystal meth. I don't know what feels worse: having one Death Coffee per day, or skipping it."''
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