https://www.inc.com/magazine/19970615/1416.html - farmers' barbed wire fencing pulling double-duty as telephone wire in the 1920s. Frontier ingenuity at its finest. Makes me think of that Warren Ellis quote from Crécy, his woefully under-read comic/history text/treatise- ( Read more... )

- INjection 11 and 12 ( Read more... )

If you've been reading Simon R. Green's stuff (his horrible horrible yet somehow insanely addictive stuff), you already know that the man never read something he didn't want to put in his books: the Deathstalker Series was Star Wars-Dune-40K-X-Men-Neuromancer, the Eddie Drood books are the genre kitchen-sink setting to end all genre kitchen sink ( Read more... )

Injection (#10 just dropped yesterday) is Peak Warren Ellis. It is Platonic Ideal of Warren Ellis. Global Frequency, Moon Knight, Gravel and, yes, even Planetary were but mere dress rehearsals for the coolness that is Injection ( Read more... )

Karnak #2 finally came out. Totally worth the wait ( Read more... )

Warren Ellis' Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #3 has really inappropriate art (Kaare Andrews' is better suited to Daughters of the Dragon or Danger Girl or somesuch.) And what the fuck is Storm doing bringing back the mohawk? Isn't she supposed to be Wakandan royalty now ( Read more... )

Take notes, there will be a quiz.

When magicians talk about invoking gods and demons and the like, what they're really discussing is a process. A mental process that allows one to enter into conversation with the secret recesses of the human brain. That's where gods and devils live. They are aspects of our own subconscious, loaded with information ( Read more... )

Tomb Raider's tenth anniversary is this year. As such, Gametap thought they'd get in some of that action. Hence, a whole bunch of animators and comicbook writers were called to create a series of short episodes: Gail Simone, Peter Chung, Brian Pulido and Warren Ellis are the biggest names thus so far; Jim Lee's is yet to come ( Read more... )

Ellis commands that his fellow writers put up a page of script from whatever they're working on. They hasten to obey. Top of the list (for me anyway) are a script page from Doktor Sleepless (Ellis' hopeful magnum-opus-to-be), one from the Wu Ao Shi issue of Immortal Iron Fist and something really cool-seeming called Northlanders by Brian Wood ( Read more... )

The Remake/Remodel threads on Warren Ellis' THE ENGINE forum are mmmmm-mmm, eyemelting excellence. Basically, it's Ellis using his (internet!) powers for good, inviting all his artist pals to revamp a variety of pulp/Golden Age heroes ( Read more... )