Doktor Sleepless Review, or without love you can never learn to hate

If there is one thing Warren Ellis can do, it's take stock character archetypes, and give them a nice little twist. The characters themselves aren't anything new at their core, really. You have the mad scientist, the femme fatale assistant in provactive clothing, and the uptight police commissioner. But it's the delivery of these characters that makes them great. The idea of a mad scientist with a radio show, for instance. There are a lot of similarities with Transmetropolitan, an earlier work of his. The dystopian future, the city filled with all kinds of perversion, and even the mannerisms of the main character are similar.But just because Doktor Sleepless may act like Spider Jerusalem, he is nothing like him. He isn't in search of the truth, or some other noble ideal. He wants to destroy the world for revenge. The three gears logo they used was the perfect choice, since it's the best representation of the Doktor's mind. Gears constantly turning in a war machine to bring down the world. And with Warren Ellis writing it, we at least know our inevitable destruction will be enjoyable.