warren ellis Archives

Working its way around the world, until it hits the US and goes official, it looks like Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato's Thunderbolts run that span out of Civil War will be hitting 99 cents on Monday morning… it's already at 69p in the UK. And it's joined by Warren Ellis Forum member Matt Fraction with[...]

We present a complete, never published, never-to-be-published, issue of Ghost Rider 2099 written by Warren Ellis. Salgood also has an his own personal anthology project, the 52 page Revolver, for sale digitally $2 for the high resolution PDF, and free if you buy it in print for $15… Take a look, it's really pretty. [...]

We're getting a new Iron Man film next year, Iron Man 3, based in part on the Iron Man: Extremis arc by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov. The thing is, ongoing franchise superhero comic don't often get a sales bump from movies The product available is too vast, too wide, there's little to make a convincing[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. You know, at this rate, Warren Ellis may leave comics for crime fiction and not look back This January sees the release of his second novel Gun Machine from Mulholland Books, his second full-length prose work since 2007's Crooked Little Vein Although primarily known for his comics work, in particular[...]

Julian Simpson is a British TV writer. Episodes of Doctor Who such as Almost People and Rebel Flesh as well as episodes of Hustle, Spooks, Hotel Baylon,

Sitting behind me at the cinema was long-time Judge Dredd artist Cam Kennedy, who nodded, "that's my girl!" EllisWatch: Warren Ellis schools those making comics available on digital platforms a very simple and blindingly obvious lesson. I can't even make out some of the logos here.  Thank god for the handy text underneath each one.  Although I'd[...]

Still. But if you, like me, would prefer to have all of  Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's Freakangels in print, in a box set and on your shelf, then now is the time Amazon have dropped the price from $100 to $58, ahead of it's sale date in November. Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born[...]

convention being held in Northampton this weekend is teasing that people should bring their Transmetropolitan trades along… could Warren Ellis be a surprise guest? (UPDATE: Nope… Darick then?) ClotWatch: A British doctor is using comics to spread the word about the clotting aspects of a generically available drug, and how it can save lives. Last week, he[...]

So, as well as that Iron Man Season One original graphic novel by Howard Chaykin and Gerald Parel, we have; Doom 2099: The Complete Collection by Warren Ellis, the first comic where he started to show his big world changing ideas that would be revisited in works like Stormwatch and The Authority. Doom 2099 24-39, material from[...]

If you ever needed any more proof that we're back in the  nineties, Warren Ellis is writing a new book featuring a die-cut cover Only problem is, it's not a comic book. Here's the UK cover for Gun Machine, his new novel, featuring a hole in the middle of the cover, indicating a gun shot, and[...]

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No one redefined the comic book landscape quite like Alan Moore in the 1980s, and the year 1985 was one of the most creative of his career.  He'd taken Saga of the Swamp Thing to new levels of horror and brilliance.  He'd introduced the world to John Constantine, a magic con man and later, Hellblazer. [...]

For the fourth (I think) time. Originally spinning out of Dave's time at Quality Communications working on Warrior, he and Garry Leach created Atomeka, to publish A1, containing the creator owned work of Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Brian Bolland, Warren Ellis, Steve Pugh, Ted McKeever, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Phil Winslade and many more, in a[...]

And that it is by Jeph Loeb and Dale Keown. UPDATE: Yes, this piece may have originally mentioned Warren Ellis No he's not on it Looks like it may have been an echo from an earlier proposed version of the project… Warren tells me "I don't think I actually know what that is  Nothing to do[...]

55% off. That's your magic number. The Justice League: The Complete Series is now on DVD from Amazon, reduced from the $99.98 retail price to $44.99,

Based on initial ideas by Stan Lee and John Byrne, it saw creators such as Peter David, Warren Ellis, Rick Leonardi, D'Israeli, Humberto Ramos, Pat Mills and Chuck Dixon recreate Marvel superheroes in an increasingly sci-fi background. It had some highs, it had some lows, it met its end when Marvel radically contracted their sales and[...]

For some reason that I forget now, for the last couple of days, Bleeding Cool has been covered with pictures of people's dental photography. Well trust Warren Ellis to go one better By posting the following... One emergency dental surgery later… That's a cracked & infected wisdom tooth that had to be extracted in three pieces[...]

Lots of news from Kapow today, including tidbits from Warren Ellis, Mark Millar, Charlie Adlard, and much, much more  Next week BC hits Phoenix Comicon, which includes the BC Fan Awards, so go vote before it's too late. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Recolouring Of The X-Force Omnibus Coming at some indeterminate point, an X-Force Omnibus collecting Rob[...]

Warren Ellis has been talking plenty at Kapow, in London today Lots of questions, lots of answers, lots of laughs, an unlit cigarette and a can or three of Red Bull. Amongst the jollity, he talked more about Gun Machine, his upcoming novel That it is centred on a cop who discovers an apartment full of[...]

Horrible." I have a notion that I had and was trying to put together with Warren Ellis right before "Avengers" came in an usurped my life for two years, and that's what I want to go back to It's called "Wastelanders."  It's riskier than "Dr Horrible." There is no soundtrack album It's not kid-friendly[...]

Warren Ellis' new novel is now on Amazon US and Amazon UK, the latter of which has the following description. This morning Detective John Tallow was bored with his job. Then there was this naked guy with a shotgun, and his partner getting killed, and now Tallow has a real problem: an apartment full of guns[...]

Avatar's no stranger to the superhero genre, with groundbreaking series by such industry stalwarts as Warren Ellis (Black Summer, No Hero, and Supergod) and Christos Gage (Absolution) The new Penn-penned Hero Worship series promises to fit the Avatar house style: risk-taking tales that encourage fans to think differently about the cape & cowl crowd. Here's a[...]

Where's my fucking jet pack?" — Warren Ellis Given how many stories in comic books involve time travel, a significant number set in the future, it's telling how often we get it wrong And I'm not even talking about the far future, thousands of years hence No, we're equally incompetent about the near future. Sure, there's the[...]

Linda Ge writes for Bleeding Cool. Deadline and Warren Ellis himself have revealed that VFX guru Tim Miller will direct the big screen adaptation of Ellis' comic book series Gravel for Legendary Pictures. Gravel tells the story of William Gravel, a British Special Air Service member who is also a Combat Magician, one who dabbles in dark[...]

I attended my first comics convention in 1989 when I was in my mid-twenties – I didn't know a single other person there… in London at the time, there really wasn't (in my experience) a way of getting to know other people who read comics other than if you happened to see someone at one[...]

A classic science fiction conspiracy written by Warren Ellis gets new life, in fully-painted color, thanks to the brand-new, remastered edition of ATMOSPHERICS, which hits store shelves everywhere today. Illustrated by Ken Meyer Jr., ATMOSPHERICS is a terrifying alien tale of a mystery woman questioned by equally mysterious authorities as a witness… or perhaps an active[...]

By Brandon Graham and SImon Roy, it has, however, the visible and vocal support of the likes of Warren Ellis Oh, and Bleeding Cool But, until you read it, it may have the taint of Extreme – which may have dragged retailer orders down, as they recall the later copies of Prophet back in the[...]

In the comic Planetary, writer Warren Ellis uses similar ideas when talking about Fictionauts, characters who use a machine to enter fictional realms and bring back artefacts A key difference though is that Ellis hasn't made this part of his personal philosophy, unlike Moore and Morrison. So what does these theories consist of? The metafiction is[...]

Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island, out in softcover and hardcover from Avatar Press tomorrow Here's the solicits… From the sparking-mad mind of Warren Ellis, the creator of TRANSMETROPOLITAN and PLANETARY, comes an electrical romance of a pirate utopia thwarted!  In the London[...]

EllisWatch: Warren Ellis is being interviewed on stage tomorrow by Lenny Henry, as part of the UK premiere of Captured Ghosts, a documentary on his work and life I'm in it somewhere. MooreWatch: Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore about his new novel. "Without giving away too much of the plot, it's a historical fantasy [...]