Tag Archive | "Warren Ellis"

Two new Warren Ellis series…..Ellis and Oeming’s Half Moon and Ellis and D’Israeli’s SVK

Sunday, March 27, 2011

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Oooooooh, a new science fiction series by Warren Ellis with art by Michael Oeming. Sounds great and damn, those early sketch ideas from Oeming look delicious. Would it be ridiculous to hope he keeps that loose with the finished artwork? The series got announced almost as soon as it had been agreed by Ellis on his website [...]

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Resurrection time…. forgotten pieces from Vertigo’s past

Friday, March 11, 2011

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Vertigo Resurrected: Shoot and other stories Written by Warren Ellis, Brian J. Bolland, Brian Azzarello, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Steven T. Seagle, Peter Millgan, Bill Willingham and Bruce Jones. Art by Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, Brian Bolland, Essad Ribic, Frank Quitely, Jim Lee, Tim Sale, Eduardo Risso, Bill Willingham, Bernie Wrightson, Tim Bradstreet. DC/Vertigo Vertigo [...]

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It’s all gone a bit non-astonishing…..

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic By Warren Ellis and Phil Jiminez (with Andy Lanning – inks and finishes) Marvel Comics I read Exogenetic late one night/early one morning, deep into that time when I should really have been asleep in bed rather than drifting in and out of consciousness on the sofa. And that was why, when [...]

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Moments Of Moore, Moments Of Ellis…. and (ahem) Moore fallings out….

Saturday, January 8, 2011

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(Captain Britain – “Waiting for the End of the World” (1983), artist: Alan Davis – from the “A Moment Of Moore” blog.) Is this some sort of trend developing? …… first of all, on New Year’s Eve, we had “A Moment Of Moore“, then less than a week later “A Moment Of Ellis” appeared. Both [...]

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Graphic Novel Classic Library: Planetary – Wildstorm’s best.

Friday, December 31, 2010

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Planetary Written by Warren Ellis, Art by John Cassaday, Colours by Laura Martin, David Baron DC Comics / Wildstorm (Planetary Absolute Editions 1 & 2 – The entire series in two beautiful oversized hardcovers) Although it started in April 1999, various problems with the series meant that the final issue; 27, was eventually published in [...]

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Ellis on ageing action heroes..

Saturday, October 23, 2010

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Nice piece in the Guardian today by Warren Ellis talking about the older heroes of his graphic novel Red, and the film adaptation that is, as they say, playing on a cinema scene near you right now. It’s a more thoughtful piece than you might expect from Ellis, although he still reverts to type late [...]

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Ellis in Wired – and why comics sales figure make book people weep….

Friday, September 3, 2010

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The latest issue of Wired has regular columnist Warren Ellis talking Comic-Cons, digital and sales figures for comics. If I had more time this weekend I’d be writing a lot more about this, and I’ve still got to organise the several thousand words of thoughts about digital publishing and the future that I’ve been promising [...]

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iFanboy looks at classic Warren Ellis

Thursday, September 2, 2010

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The iFanboys crew discuss the work of Warren Ellis from around the year 2000, a vintage year for the writer with Planetary, The Authority and, my personal favourite, Transmetropolitan:

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More Pekar tributes….. and Helen Mirren

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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I didn’t intend to feature stuff from ComicTwart this week, as I’ve linked them a few times in the last couple of weeks, but these Pekar tributes are just too good not to show you…. (Art by Francesco Francavilla and Mr Hawthorne) There’s also news over on Comics Beat regarding Harvey’s funeral and a request [...]

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Forbidden DC to be published….

Saturday, July 24, 2010

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Earlier this week we got the news that DC/Vertigo were looking back through the archives at material they’d passed on for one reason or another and have had a change of heart. First up is Warren Ellis’ Hellblazer story “Shoot”, which was spiked after the Columbine shootings and never published. Over at Warren Ellis’ blog he [...]

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Helen Mirren with an assault rifle?

Friday, July 2, 2010

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Oh yes. If for nothing else, RED, the upcoming movie with Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren playing ex-CIA operatives, is going to be worth watching just to see Helen Mirren toting heavy weaponry. Here’s the trailer (alternative links – You Tube, Apple Trailers): For those that don’t know, RED is [...]

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Imagining New Worlds with Warren Ellis

Sunday, May 30, 2010

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Over on his Whitechapel Forums Warren Ellis has started another of his fun Remake/Remodel contests: “You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for #223 of something called NEW WORLDS. You have been told that NEW WORLDS is the most groundbreaking, forward-looking, ambitious and original science fiction magazine in the world. And that’s it. [...]

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Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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A trailer from the forthcoming documentary, directed by Kevin Thurman, on that upcoming and apparently talented young chap,  Warren Ellis (via Kev at Robot 6):

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Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island issue 1

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island issue 1 (of 4) by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres Avatar Press “This is a secret history. Everything I tell you is true. Ionic air propulsion. Electrostatic levitation. Electrogravitics. The Biefield-Brown Effect and electro-fluid-dynamics. Nothing here is invented. It simply appears to be uchronic, counterfactual, sitting [...]

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Ignition City – half a western Flash Gordon from Ellis

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Ignition City by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani Avatar Press After choosing Warren Ellis as my favourite author for the 5th anniversary post of the FPI blog I can’t help but feel very let down by him after completing Ignition City. It’s a classic example of the sort of writing he’s sometimes capable of, especially [...]

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