Tag Archive | "Warren Ellis"

Mr Ellis heads to Hollywood

Sunday, October 11, 2009

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Warren Ellis already has his Wildstorm series’ Red (with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman) and Ocean optioned and in development with film studios but neither of those movies will feature Ellis in any writing capacity. Instead, Ellis is getting his first crack at transferring his characters from page to screen with one of his lesser [...]

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Talk Like Warren Ellis …..

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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Talk Like Warren Ellis: One of those daft, funny for a few moments things, but if you haven’t already seen it, someone’s generated a webpage to mashup Warren Ellis’ Twitter outpourings so each time you reload you get this sort of thing: And that’s five minutes of your day gone. Hope you enjoyed it.

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Supergod – new from Warren Ellis. Meet the messiah…..

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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Over at the Previews site, Warren Ellis has a little introductory essay for his new Avatar series: Supergod. Now, anyone reading the reviews over the years will realise I have a love/love/hate/disappointment relationship with Ellis’ work. Most of the time he’s good, sometimes he’s great, sometimes it’s just not good enough. And it’s his Avatar [...]

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Anna Mercury – big ideas & big hair in Ellis’ return to form.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Anna Mercury Volume 1: The Cutter by Warren Ellis & Facundo Percio Avatar Press. Available as a hardcover and softcover edition. I’ve already reviewed Anna Mercury twice; (issue 1 and issue 2), so I’ll be quick here. This is some of what I said about issue 2: With Anna Mercury #1 I put forward the hope that this [...]

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I had a horrible nightmare, I dreamed that Marvel brought back those hideous foil covers…..

Sunday, July 12, 2009

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…. Oh God help us, it’s not a dream. In a week where DC released the first issue of the huge Wednesday Comics; something different and rather exciting,  Marvel are bringing back something that became the byword for over-hyped, over-priced non-event comics. The Foil cover is back. The press release: “Marvel is pleased to unveil the special variant [...]

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