Tag Archive | "Warren Ellis"

How do you like your superhero comics? Clever and stylish or fighty fighty fighty?

Saturday, April 7, 2012

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Secret Avengers Volume 3: Run The Mission, Don’t Get Seen, Save The World Written by Warren Ellis Art by Jamie McKelvie, Kev Walker, David Aja, Michael Lark, Alex Maleev, Stuart Immonen Avengers Vs X-Men Issue 1 Story by Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Hickman, Matt Fraction. Script by Brian Michael Bendis Art by [...]

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Will Kirkby’s excellent Ellis Station Ident

Saturday, March 17, 2012

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That is just epic! Will Kirkby art for the reopening of Warren Ellis’ website…. “Good morning, sinners.  Today’s Station Ident, combined with a Three Panels I invited him to do last year, is by Will Kirkby, whose work in comics and illustration you can discover at his blog and at his online store.” Of course, you already know [...]

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Leah Moore on women and comics

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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The debate on gender and comics – both representation of gender and the gender divides in readership – is pretty much a perpetual, ongoing discussion in the comics world, but over on Warren Ellis’ site the excellent Leah Moore posts a guest blog discussing female readers and fan girls, not just in the regular comics [...]

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Secret Avengers 17 – Ellis, Walker. Not so good. Not Walker’s fault.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

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Secret Avengers #17 By Warren Ellis and Kev Walker Marvel I looked at Secret Avengers 16 for a few reasons ….. because it was in the middle of the new DC 52 and I felt guilty, because it looked like a standalone series with short, self-contained, relatively continuity free stories, because it had a great [...]

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Three Panels Open… Warren Ellis gives his blog over to artists…

Sunday, September 18, 2011

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Ellis has always been generous with his time and his influence, championing causes, artists and comics over at his site. And he’s at it again with “Three Panels Open”. Exactly what it says – three panels, do what you want…. and here’s a few of the best: Annie Wu: PJ Holden: but possibly best of [...]

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Secret Avengers – Ellis and McKelvie. Two very good reasons.

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Secret Avengers #16 By Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie Marvel Comics Why? Because I’m feeling slightly guilty over the amount of DC coverage we’ve been putting up recently. Because it’s Warren Ellis writing and Jamie McKelvie drawing. Because it’s got the Beast and Black Widow in. Because I’ve always been a Marvel boy at heart [...]

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Dr Sketchy’s does Transmet

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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(the always charming and friendly Spider Jerusalem by Ellis and Robertson) A sadly far too brief video giving us a tiny glimpse into the Transmetropolitan themed Dr Sketchy’s Anti-art achool which was staged to promote the Transmetropolitan Art Book for charity. Ryan Keely portrays the Filthy Assistant Channon, while acclaimed queer adult star/icon Jiz Lee [...]

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Freakangels – an ending….

Saturday, August 6, 2011

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Haven’t finished Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield’s Freakangels yet – have fallen rather behind on it to be honest…. but yesterday saw the publication of the 144th and final episode…. quite an acomplishment. Congratulations to Ellis and Duffield, good show for Avatar for hosting the thing…. and here, should you need reminding is the first [...]

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Ellis on pitching, foot races and DC…..

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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Over at his website, Warren Ellis is having a think about the iffy subject of the foot race, as recently highlighted by DC’s new 52 issue relaunch/reboot thing. Now, I know the idea of pitching for things is a common one in a creative industry. But it’s usual to at least let the bloody poor [...]

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Warren Ellis & Matt Brooker’s SVK – a near immediate sell out

Sunday, July 10, 2011

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3500 copies of the first print went in less than 48 hours. Berg are rush releasing a second print very soon. And at £10 per 40 page comic …. that’s not a bad little return. What’s the betting we’ll see another issue, or maybe another project from BERG very soon? SVK is written by Warren Ellis [...]

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Ellis on Marvel & DC’s Digital Strategies….

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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Late on this…. apologies. But it’s always fun to read what Warren Ellis thinks of the current goings-on in the comic industry (even if he wrote them a couple of weeks ago. Round One: DC…… wherein he makes a good point about DC’s digital strategy being all about attempting to reach out to those potential [...]

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SVK

Thursday, July 7, 2011

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BoingBoing reports on SVK, a new comics project from Warren Ellis, D’Isreali and London design studio Berg. From the official description: “First and foremost SVK is a modern detective story, one that Ellis describes as “Franz Kafka’s Bourne Identity”. It’s a story about cities, technology and surveillance, mixed with human themes of the power, corruption [...]

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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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