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After a successful premiere at the Napa Valley Film Festival, Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts is now screening worldwide!
Category Archives: Warren Ellis
DC RELAUNCH: Warren Ellis speaks up
Warren Ellis has a thing or two to say about the new DC Relaunch, and it may give some a bit of hope.
The downside, of course, is that Ellis may be more on the nose with his comments when it comes to highlighting the differences between the real core audience and the new DC core audience.
Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide
Press Release
Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide is now available for order through comic shops (use Diamond order code MAR111401). The book is currently listed in the books section of March’s Previews catalog (page 347) and is set to hit stores in late May.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Warren Ellis on digital comics
Writer Warren Ellis has a great quote over at Digital Spy, that puts a bit of perspective on the digital market.
Granted, there are many other outlets other than the iPad, but save for the computer, other portable media devices haven’t taken off the way the iPad has.
Sequart proclaims 2011 to be the year of Ellis
Press Release
Sequart is excited to announce that 2011 is the YEAR OF ELLIS — as in celebrated comics writer Warren Ellis. Throughout the year, we’ll be offering three books and a documentary film on Ellis, exploring his major works, his overall career, and why he deserves his status in the top pantheon of comics writers.
MOVIE REVIEW: RED
I have an incredibly embarrassing admission to bring to the readers of Major Spoilers. This may very well cost me geek credibility cache, but I owe you the truth.
Here’s the thing: I have never actually read Warren Ellis’ and Cully Hamner’s graphic novel, RED. Further details will only serve to compound my lapse in fandom. For example, I consider Warren Ellis to be my favorite comics author. When I say I own EVERYTHING else that Ellis has produced, I’m not overstating the facts.
Rather than spend any additional time lamenting my contemptible actions, I have decided to instead speculate on the uniquely intrinsic benefit that my lack of exposure to the graphic novel has allotted me. I went into the Cineplex with few preconceived notions of what to expect. My red and green-tinted fanboy spectacles have been cast aside, freeing me from the inevitable comparisons that typically plague my critical palate during comic-to-film adaptations.
So, faithful Spoilerites, get ready to get your ass kicked while smiling throughout the entire journey. Red is the single most enjoyable film I’ve seen all year.
Red Trailer arrives
Way back in 2003 (seems like forever, doesn’t it?), Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner had a little project called Red, a three issue series from Wildstorm, that follows the attempted assassination of former CIA agent Paul Moses. Moses obviously doesn’t like trying to be killed, gets his old gang back together and gives back what they got.
The mini-series has been turned into a movie starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, and others who are no strangers to comic book movies.
On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: The Authority
Even amidst the chaos, the Major Spoilers Crew is gathering together in Stately Spoiler Manor to bring you a new episode of The Major Spoilers Podcast. Amongst the rubble, the trio have managed to uncover The Authority.
FROM THE WIKI
In 1999, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch introduced readers to the Authority, a team of superheroes who promised to get the job done by whatever means necessary. They were: Jenny Sparks, the Spirit of the 20th Century; Jack Hawksmoor, the king of cities; Swift, a Tibetan woman with wings and sharp talons; Apollo, a bio-engineered gay Superman pastiche; The Midnighter, a Batman pastiche who was the lover of Apollo and possessed the ability to foresee his opponents’ moves in combat; The Engineer, a scientist who replaced her blood with nine pints of nano-technology; and the Doctor, a Dutch junkie with the combined powers of hundreds of shamans who had come before him.
The Ellis/Hitch run of The Authority lasted 12 issues, divided in three story-arcs: The Circle, Shiftships, and The Outer Dark. They showed an increasingly dangerous enemy: an international terrorist (previously seen in Stormwatch), an invasion from an alternative Earth, and “God,” the hostile alien creator of the Solar system, with corresponding high scale violence and property destruction. The usage of a narrative tool called decompression, taken mainly from manga and novel in American super-hero comic-books, was distinctive: big, panoramic panels were used to examine action in deep detail, with a slower rhythm and lighter plotting per issue.
As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.
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Black Summer headed to theaters, possible summer release unknown
Warren Ellis’ Black Summer series has been optioned by Vigilante Entertainment to be turned into a motion picture. Ryne Pearson has been hired to write the adaptation about a group of superheroes who modify their own bodies to take back their city from a corrupt police force.
On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Transmetropolitan Volume 1
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew are taking on Transmetropolitan Volume 1 from Vertigo Comics.
Amazon description:
In this first volume, Spider ventures into the dangerous Angels 8 district, home of the Transients — humans who have decided to become aliens through cosmetic surgery. But Spider’s interview with the Transients’ leader gets him a scoop he didn’t bargain for. And don’t miss Spider’s first confrontation with the President of the United States . . . in a men’s room.
As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.
Here’s your chance to be heard on the show! Give us your thoughts on this trade paperback, or if you want to share your thoughts on the state of the comic book industry, or anything else that might be on your mind drop us a line. Only the most awesome comments (good or bad) make it on the show, so get your stuff to us right away!
Review: Freak Angels
Once upon a time, 12 children where born at the same time to different families. They all had pale skin, lavender eyes, and mental powers above and beyond those of the normal man. As they grew up, they learned that they could do all sorts of interesting things with their powers, and they began to see the world differently.
One day, they decided to change the world, and in the process, nearly destroyed it. This is what happened next.
That is about the best introduction that I can think of for FREAKANGELS, the popular webcomic from Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield.
REVIEW: No Hero #1 – 4
Or – “How Much Do You Want To Be A Super-Human?”
Many years ago, I managed to track down a leather-bound copy of a book entitled “The Encyclopedia of Super-Heroes.” It listed, in ridiculous detail, as many of the superheroes created between 1938 and 1984 or so as the writer could possibly document, from Superman and Batman down to one-shot wonders like Butterfly and Hell-Rider, to advertising characters like Bud-Man. Since then, I’ve often wondered how difficult it would be to update that volume, since the 90′s comic boom created thousands of guys whose names are synonyms for “fight,” and gave us easily as many new heroes as were in the entire original book. But another question floated to the front of my mind while reading these issues. If you had the opportunity, and you really wanted to be in that book, to have powers and costume and the whole schmear, REALLY wanted it… What price would you be willing to pay to be Superman?