I think the only Warren Ellis work I've read is his three-issue mini-series Mek. The first two issues of that were really great. Then came the final issue, which felt like the Matrix sequels, celebrating a violent and exciting Carrie-esque climax and avoiding the thematic material built up in the first two issues.
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
Mal ,'Serenity'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Invisible Green - Mar 02, 2006 12:43:49 pm PST #8522 of 10001
Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2006 1:36:24 pm PST #8523 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Or, if your doctor says your blood pressure is dangerously low, read a Dave Sim afterword.
P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2006 1:57:18 pm PST #8524 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Even if I do think that Spider sometimes looks like Pete's evil twin.
I was thinking the good twin, personally.
§ ita § - Mar 02, 2006 2:00:08 pm PST #8525 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So there's a good twin and an adorable twin? Is that how that works?
P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2006 2:07:21 pm PST #8526 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So there's a good twin and an adorable twin? Is that how that works?
I can hear him make the squinchy face from all the way across the lake.
Atropa - Mar 02, 2006 2:11:12 pm PST #8527 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So there's a good twin and an adorable twin? Is that how that works?
mops water off of keyboard
I'm so going to call him that. And then hope that my powers of cute will save me from retaliation.
Strega - Mar 02, 2006 2:20:43 pm PST #8528 of 10001
a violent and exciting Carrie-esque climaxHm. I thought it was more a locking-lawyers-in-a-wine-cellar thing. Well, sorta. Not a revenge fantasy; a reveal that the heroine wasn't one.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Mar 02, 2006 2:38:45 pm PST #8529 of 10001
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Plei writes
I was thinking the good twin, personally.
So utterly fired.
ita writes
So there's a good twin and an adorable twin? Is that how that works?
So terribly in trouble. Even with her pinkie-killing skillz.
Plei writes
I can hear him make the squinchy face from all the way across the lake.
So going to wish she lives in another state.
Jilli writes
I'm so going to call him that. And then hope that my powers of cute will save me from retaliation.
So categorically should know better.
Warren Ellis did a few other things too. There was a so-so vampire story called Sugar Virus which was part of the Bad Blood series that my one lone comic - Sweetmeats - appeared in. I had the opportunity to chat for a while with Warren at a Glasgow comic convention back in 1992 - oh bloody hell, almost 14 years ago - and he had a solid streak of snark then but he's really honed it to perfection these days.
amych - Mar 02, 2006 2:38:52 pm PST #8530 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
So there's a good twin and an adorable twin?
Lord help me, I'm now imagining a bald tattooed guy with a big pink Hello Kitty bow on his head. And all I have to save me from retaliation is my powers of 3,000 miles the fuck away.
eta: from both, which is even better, now that I think of it.
Lee - Mar 02, 2006 2:41:43 pm PST #8531 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm not laughing at any of this. Nope. Not me. Not at all.
(Remember that on Saturday okay Pete?)