Wow, just wow.
Yeah, there's actually some incredible writing in the warhammer 40k universe.
And Helsreach is still one of my favourites. Pretty much anything Aaron Dembski Bowden writes is so much fun to read. These days I've moved away from most of both the warhammer worlds (40k and the old world), but I'll pick up anything with that man's name on it.
If you've ever wondered how that people can read these books. Aaron's work will show you.
He writes the most human and relatable Marines I've ever read.
There's so much depth to the character of Grimaldus in Helsreach that it was an eye opener, since this book I haven't been able to enjoy alot of the 40k fiction that I enjoyed previously.
It shows you that even with the melodramatic bombast that alot of this setting is, its vicious bolter-porn, the oceans of mindless brutality; the writing can work with that rather than just adhere to it like some mindless drone.
Seeing one of Bowden's best stories being given so much love in Richard Boylen's animation is nothing short of awesome. It brilliantly captures the introspective doom-laden feel of the book.
I can only hope that Richard can keep this up, because I'd love to see more.
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