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 in the break of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 8, 2010
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 with Avatar, who [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 25, 2010
It’s hard for me to believe but today marks the fifth birthday of the Forbidden Planet blog. It’s a peculiar feeling because in one way it doesn’t really feel like it’s been five years since I posted that first blog item but on the other hand it also feels like we’ve been a part of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 21, 2010
Here’s the promo art for the forthcoming “Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis” by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews….. Cyclops and Storm seem somewhere about 7ft tall, Storm appears to have forgotten most of her top and, from that waistline, hasn’t been eating properly either. And poor Emma Frost has suffered from some really bad plastic surgery that’s taken [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 20, 2010
Just how long before someone makes a working model of this? And then how long before Ellis sticks it on here?
Continue reading...Thursday, December 24, 2009
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes by Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi Marvel I enjoyed, and wrote about the first issue of this storyline when it came out here and this collection basically gives us more of the same, which is to say more of Ellis’ voice through the medium of Marvel’s mutant team. Everything you’d expect to find in [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 11, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 6, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Sunday, August 23, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 12, 2009
…. 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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