Reviewed By Eric Switzer. “Nameless” #2 is 20 pages of high-concept round table discussion of celestial warfare bookended by cannibalistic body horror…on the moon. I wanted to lead with that because like all Grant Morrison books you are either in or you’re out, and I am so definitely in.
WRITTEN BY: Grant Morrison
ART BY: Chris Burnham
PUBLISHER: Image
PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE: March 4, 2015
So Nameless’ purpose becomes pretty clear when he meets the rest of the team tasked with saving earth from a heavenly asteroid: he is the occultist expert there to protect them from whatever manner of cooky space deities that support the asteroids cause to destroy all life on Earth. I guess they decided they were out of their league when one of their best and brightest started taking off heads and writing bloody words on the wall in angel language. Yet some of the crew is skeptical about Nameless’ abilities and expertise. Morrison wouldn’t be analogizing any scientific controversies would he?
As much as I love Burnham’s frames it couldn’t quite keep me engaged with the endless chit chat that took up the bulk of the book. Morrison has some of the best prose in the business but this thing was just too dense. If nothing else, these quieter moments allowed for the insane violence and robot space dragon fight to really shine. Chris is just the man to match Morrison’s eccentricities.
I have no idea whats going on here, let alone where things are going. I’m intrigued and entertained for the most part, and most of all I trust these guys to deliver. One of the first novels I read growing up with a dark fantasy book by Simon R. Green called “Agents of Light and Darkness” in the “Nightside” series. Since then angel stuff has always given me a boner. I’m really hoping to see some Tyreal-style Angelic badasses in this book, but if nothing else I can count on seeing a bunch more really insane and disturbing shit. Isn’t that worth your $4?
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Eric Switzer is an aspiring filmmaker and screenplay writer living in Los Angeles. His work tends to focus on the lighter side of entropy, dystopic futures, and man’s innate struggle with his own mortality. He can be found on twitter @epicswitzer or reached via email at ericswitzerfilm@gmail.com.