Book Reviews Of The Month – Driver For The Dead #3

*** Minor Spoilers
Hotwire: Deep Cut #3
Written By Warren Ellis
Art Contributions by Steve Pugh
Reviewed By Benjamin Leff
Recently, I read Hotwire Deep Cut: Book #3 From Radical Publishing. Here’s a breakdown of the story. The time is in a post-apocalyptic future where ghosts are everywhere. Cities have been able to control them, creating either antennas that put out radio waves that keep them away or with new ceramic cases that keep them locked in. The main character is Alice Hotwire who is trying to capture a dead soldier in a robot’s body carrying a woman who recently died. Hotwire is trying to do this with a group of hired security called Bear Claw trying to test a new weapon as well as stop this dead soldier.

I liked the fact that they give you a quick review of what happened in the first two books on page one to make sure you’re somewhat up to date. The art on it’s own was very well done and very detailed and the voices matched the characters with the accents matched with what was going on. But that’s about the most I can say about the book.

As I read, the story started getting disjointed and I couldn’t keep track of who’s doing what. Hotwire is jumping out of an air vehicle with two large items with equipment for her but in the next few frames, she’s on the ground and nothing is mentioned of what happened to them. My theory on something like that is if you establish something, use it. Now I did say that I liked the art, it’s the same style that’s going around. But in here it didn’t work, there’s so much going on in each frame that it becomes very cluttered and hard to follow.

In my humble opinion, I’m not expecting this to keep going but it’s a way to kill time if you want to read it.