The Spire #5

[laughing_tree]

For me it’s a ragged pulp-up of 2000AD‘s “fuck-you” to the Rules Of Genre, China Mieville’s elaborately febrile imagination and Nausicaä-era-Miyazaki’s attention to detail, with a dusting of Gormenghast and Dune over the top. But comics are at their best when neither artist not writer has a controlling interest in the outcome, and the work winds-up being greater than the sum of its collective schizophrenic influences. -- Si Spurrier