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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6144148" data-attributes="member: 70">Started The Immortality Engine, by George Mann, last night.  It's OK so far; neither memorable nor terrible.  It does does have the stereotypical Victorian Steampunk characters from Central Casting: the Bold And Forthright Gal Friday Who Goes Into Dens of Iniquity With Aplomb In Search of Justice And Her Employer; the Opium-Addicted Genius Detective Who Employs the Gal Friday And Is Secretly Happy That She Goes Into Dens of Iniquity Looking For Him; and the Upright And Proper Detective From Scotland Yard Who Goes Hrumph And Has A Mustache And Does Not Think It Is Proper That Gal Friday Should Go Into Dens of Iniquity.Just once I'd like to see a central female character walk into a Den Of Iniquity, roll her eyes, and say something like "This is it?  Six kids with the trots and no washing machine; THAT'S a proper mess"  or "Is that a dead body? That's hardly nothin' at all!  My Uncle Dafydd was dead in his barn a week in August heat; THAT'S a proper stink".Edit: As it is Wednesday, I'm mostly reading comics.  Fearless Defenders, Uncanny X-Force, Wolverine and the X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, Astonishing X-Men: Monstrous TPB, New Mutants: Date with the Devil TPB, and a bunch of freebies/leftovers the store owner threw in my bag.</blockquote>