In an Ornette Coleman style

Warren Ellis & Ben Templesmith: Fell Volume 1 - Feral City
(contains Fell #1-#8)

Some artists are doing their best work when they're constructing a set of formal strictures or rules for a given piece, not to lay down a new dogma, but to try out new ways of doing things.
My favorite example of this is Ornette Coleman, never afraid to try even the most absurd things (like recording with his twelve year old son as a drummer) and weird or great enough to develop his own musical system, Harmolodics. And, you know, that's how you get to be one of the great musicians alive.
Warren Ellis, too, seems to thrive on following strong formal concepts. Case in point is the first trade of his and artist Ben Templesmith's "slimline" book Fell. The formal rules: Every single contains 16 pages of story, each single is a self-contained story. Each page is based on a three times three grid.
The protagonist is Detective Richard Fell, transferred "over the bridge" to a "feral city" called Snowtown, where most social structures are in decline or already destroyed. Ellis uses his character and this place to tell slightly weird, tightly paced minimalist stories with dialog as good as he has ever written and a sense of rhythm one does not find too often in comics.
Just as good is Templesmith, avoiding to clutter the page with too many details, nonetheless always showing the telling details. Somewhere between his first outings and a million 40 Days of Night books, the artist seems to have solved the mystery of human expression and body languages without developing a "realistic" style. Nearly as great as Guy Smith.
So this is as good as comics get.