Freak Angels webcomic
I was mistaken a while ago that Freak Angels was going to be an Avatar book whereas it will be a web comic (likely collected once the foaming at the mouth Ellis fans cry for it). The artwork by Paul Duffield looks amazing but the story seems like such a typical Warren Ellis book. Watch the main character KK come up with the best one liners, the smartest person amongst her peers and save the day. I hope I am very wrong! More here:
http://www.freakangels.com/
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February 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Not even remotely interested *shrug*
February 15th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
You know, I am not a huge Ellis fan of late. I used to be a raving Ellis fan (ask William S) but for the first time, I am interested… although I do think it has TONS to do w/ the wicked artwork!
I do want to see how this experiment works out for Ellis and Co.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I’m definitely not ANTI-Ellis, but he’s just another writer to me these days. I’m enjoying Thunderbolts, but it’s not blowing me away.
Honestly, I think Ellis has already done the stuff that’s really going to blow my mind with Transmetropolitan and whatnot. Now… he’s still good, I definitely don’t avoid his stuff, but I also don’t buy stuff based on his name.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
The arts delightful to look at, simple, elegantly beautiful. I some how like what appears to be the main character even thought you don’t know much about her.
As long as the ‘book’ doesn’t turn into one of his usual rant books, which more and more resemble the scruffy bearded homeless guy with pee dribbling out one pant leg standing on the street corner screaming schizophrenic tirades against which ever oppressor is dominating him at that time. Which you know he changing in time with the huge digital display of TV on the side of the electronics shop across the corner. He stands there wobbling about wreaked with spasms brought on by a whole pharmacy of drugs the state run mental institution is spending your tax dollars to supply him with and something blue he found under a sink screaming and screaming what he’s desperate for you to see as the truth.
But really all you want to do is look at the pretty pictures of boobs and gunshot wounds he scrips in to ever other scene and who the hell really understands what he’s going on about anyways. You just want to see how bastardly his character is going to be.
Yea if this doesn’t turn out to be one of those books then this might be something monumental.
But then I realize this is Warren Ellis and he disappoints me over and over.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Man, and here I thought Ellis was not unlike the mighty Metatron - now he appears to be branded a one trick pony and *gasp* a source of disappointment?
Where is the praise for this mighty smoking figure who has created word combinations of ecstatic agony? Wherefore has he been forsaken? Is there some new dogma for which I was hitherto unawares? If there is no enlightenment in Ellis what path should I now walk?
Yours in comic confusion.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Hey DR,
You can either walk blindly with Ellis or not. You will notice that this post was the most positive I have been on him for a long while. People get/make reputations and they need to excel in order to change perceptions - that I know from personal experience.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Mr RJP,
That was a nice, moderated reply… which is too bad ’cause I was hoping that I’d be stirring the pot a bit (not even one “F” bomb!). I’ve heard too many high praises at late night coffee outings to believe that Mr. Ellis has become just some other comic book writing guy.
Are comics truly that much of a “But what have you done for me lately” industry? Actually… don’t answer that - of course it is.
DR
PS: Skrulz @re dumb. lol.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
DR -
Fuck you and Fuck Ellis! That better?
Seriously, though - in any industry, you’re only as good as your last product. Why would I waste my money on a subpar book by Ellis just because he wrote Transmetropolitan back in the day?
Again, that’s not to say Ellis is a bad writer now - I’m just not nearly as impressed as I used to be with him.
As far as high praise in coffee houses, just because alot of people like someone doesn’t mean they’re god. Alot of people liked Britney Spears back in the day, too.