7 posts tagged “warren ellis”

Yes I know I haven't been doing much of late...

We've been away on holiday but something that I was sort of involved with last week was Avatar's promotion of Freakangels Episode 50.

No I wasn't a guest writer or artist... no one would want to see that but I have been the poster Boy(?) with my kids for the installment.

Read it all at the link below.

http://www.avatarpress.com/2009/03/27/freakangels-50/

From WarrenEllis.com

Dan Curtis Johnson:

Let’s face it. You’re in a blog rut.

Most of the time, you write about more of the same kinda stuff that you usually write about.

Maybe it’s your day-to-day life, the stuff you did. Maybe it’s topical news response. Maybe it’s short fiction. Maybe it’s re-linking random stuff you see on the internet. Maybe it’s LOLCAT porn. (I hope it’s not LOLCAT porn.) Maybe it’s here on LiveJournal, or it’s over on Vox, or Blogspot or Blogger or Blogblog or Postablogablowablog, or WordPress or Facebook or FacePress or FacePlant or maybe it’s just your Twitter account. It’s what you’re comfortable with, I know, I know…

…but why not try doing something different, just for a day?

Two weeks from today, Tuesday January 27th, is Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday. Carroll, you’ll recall, wrote about a girl who fell down a rabbit hole and found herself in a place where all the rules had changed. In two weeks, on Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday, you should do the same.

That’s right: the 5th Annual Rabbit Hole Day is coming.

When you wake up on the 27th, instead of writing about your usual work and school and politics and friends and news and stuff, experience life down the Rabbit Hole and write about the work, the school, the politics, the friends, the news, the stuff that you find there instead. Travel through time. Turn into an animal. Flee from assassins. Talk to your goldfish. Conquer Greenland. Sprout some extra limbs. Learn how to walk on water. Marry an insect.

Take a break from the Every Day and write about your Rabbit Hole Day. Your normal life will be waiting for you when you get back.

Once again Derek is joined by Damian and Brian from Kryptographik in taking a look at Black Summer issues 2 and 3, created by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, published by Avatar Press. We also talk about collecting multiple covers, separating cinematic storytelling from movie pitch comics, realistic body types in comics and why big breasted women aren’t necessarily unbelievable.

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FORTHCOMING: a 576-page signed & numbered hardcover book collecting STRANGE KISS, STRANGER KISSES, STRANGE KILLINGS, THE BODY ORCHARD, STRONG MEDICINE and NECROMANCER.

Welcome to Heavenside Episode 3 arrives with Damian talking about the Third Issue of Warren Ellis’ ongoing series Doktor Sleepless.

In this episode I discuss Tulpa’s and what versions of John Reinhardt are out there, The Doktors passed and we touch on what had happened with his parents and we get to meet the man who tried to raise John after the death of his parents.

All that and a Zombie Maker!

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Look for the Darkening Sky!

If any of you didn't know Warren Ellis is actually doing a new webcomic called Freak Angels which can be found at Freakangels.com. Now if you haven't seen it then here's what it's all about:

"23 years ago 12 Strange children were born at exactly the same moment. 6 years ago the world ended. This is the story of what happens next."

Now if that isn't enough to entise you as it was for me, basically in this post apocolyptic society it's not what we are always expecting for something set in that kind of world. There is no deserts there are holes of humanity struggling for a way to survive in a hostile world.

What has happened is the "Freak Angels", who are the ones that were all born at the same time, have made a lift for themselves in Whitechapel and are mainly keeping to themselves. Until a girl with a shotgun comes storming in and accusing them of killing her relatives.

Now there are only 2 episodes up so far but in each episodes there are 6 pages per episode so your getting a good chunk of the story for your veiwing pleasure.

The art is fantastic. Paul Duffield does a great job of bringing this story to life. It doesn't feel out of place and also the way he does the steampunk elements like the water powered Gyrocopter and the way you can get a sence of what is happening off panel is something that you don't see that often espesially in a web comic.

As always Warren Ellis' storytelling is dragging me in and wanting me to know what is going to happen next. What more can you say about the man that hasn't already been said. As most Warren Ellis fans know he is a big fan of the Steampunk genre and there are elements that have been show that makes you wonder what people are doing for technology within this post apocolyptic world and I'm sure as the story goes on we will find more if it.

Also another bonus for there is a page transcript offered for those that are interested.

Overall this is something I'm going to be reading for a long time and I hope that it will be collected at a later date so I can have this to put on the shelf!