Warren Ellis

Features

Beautiful and Unique Snowflakes: Warren Ellis’ ‘Planetary’

By Kevin M. Brettauer

Warren Ellis, once thought of by many as comics’ resident Orson Welles, an angry, embittered artist, is actually the industry’s Kurt Vonnegut, sent here to make us feel as if "everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt". [13 October 2009]

Reviews

Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes

By Kevin M. Brettauer

The newest creative team is doing tremendous work on the series that redefined the X-Men -- so why some fans won’t accept it? [22 September 2009]

Orbiter

By Teresa Jusino

Orbiter is perhaps a perfect comic for this period in American history, when a current of optimism can be felt within the Obama administration. [20 July 2009]

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street

By Ian Chant

Warren Ellis’ violent, vicious, hilarious and horrifying vision of the future remains entrenched in a bleak and amoral future, where human beings are vat cloned as fast food livestock, media buys include subliminal bombs that buy ad space in your dreams and Star Trek style replicators are operated by AI addicted to cybernetic drugs. [4 June 2009]

Ultimate Galactus Trilogy

By Jason A. Zwiker

The Galactus presented here is no giant in purple headdress and short pants that can be conversed with, bargained with, or made to take a vow not to set his sights on Earth again. [31 January 2008]

Crooked Little Vein

By Shawn O'Rourke

Mike is forced to confront a culture whose decadence doesn't just infect the ranks of the poor and crazy, but reaches into the upper echelons of our society. [1 November 2007]

Fell #1-6

By Greg Oleksiuk

Which is better: monthly comic books or trade paperback collections? [29 September 2006]

Ultimate Extinction

By Stefan Robak

That's the advantage of the Ultimate books: bringing back the excitement to beloved but overly familiar universe. [25 September 2006]

Blackgas #1-3

By Jody Macgregor

A dirty secret of the privileged is locked away, here, like a skeleton in the closet with flesh still hanging from its bones. [31 July 2006]