Let us not become the evil we deplore. – Rep. Barbara Lee, September 14th, 2001 I couldn’t take it any longer. I grabbed a microphone and said, ‘I’m no fly on the wall. I am the hornet that stings.’ There was an immediate uproar, so not having anything more to say, I shouted out,…
KIRBYOLOGY!: Warren Ellis’s KARNAK and a Reminder to Not be the Worst
I have a superpower of sorts. I can look at anything — a crowded coffee shop, a walk in the park with my dog, a conversation with a neighbor, a ride down the elevator, or just the creaky process of getting up in the morning — and immediately predict, in great detail, how it’s going…
Transmyscira: The Very Stable Genius of THE WILD STORM
There are two reunions in The Wild Storm #22: the full assembly of the latest iteration of The Authority that the series has been building up to over the last two years and Warren Ellis’ reunion with the team he first brought together out of the ashes of Stormwatch nearly twenty years ago. Reunions are…
Transmyscira: Time Dies Screaming in SUPREME BLUE ROSE
We discover possible pasts at the same time as we feel the opening up of possible futures. – Peter Wollen, Raiding The Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth Century Culture We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. – Marshall McLuhan If the zoo bans me from hollering at…
Transmycira: thank u, nextwave
Now that we’ve conclusively left 2018, the longest year in recorded human history, the passage of time feels more febrile than perhaps ever before. Anything before 2018 feels like an eternity, but 2006 — the year Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen’s nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. debuted — is difficult to metabolize as being over a…
Ellis and Howard Reteam for CEMETERY BEACH at Image
Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, the creators of the critically acclaimed TREES (currently being adapted for television), bring a high-speed, mind-bending new series in CEMETERY BEACH—launching this September. “Jason wanted to do an action book, so I wrote something that starts with a conversation in an interrogation room, ignites four pages later, and doesn’t stop…
Review: WILDSTORM: MICHAEL CRAY #2
WILDSTORM: MICHAEL CRAY #2 Written by Bryan Hill and Warren Ellis Art by N. Steven Harris, Dexter Vines, Dearbhla Kelly, and Simon Bowland Published by DC Comics Release Date: November 8, 2017 The life of Michael Cray grows even more complicated in the second issue of the twelve issue series features everything from getting his…
First Look: THE WILD STORM #7
Next month brings an exhilarating new story arc in THE WILD STORM, as John Colt is re-introduced into the WildStorm Universe! THE WILD STORM #7 Written by Warren Ellis Art by Jon Davis-Hunt, Steve Buccellato, and Simon Bowland Published bv DC Comics Release Date: September 20, 2017 John Colt is moments from being either rescued,…
Exclusive Preview: THE WILD STORM #6
DC Comics has shared with Comicosity its EXCLUSIVE preview for next week’s The Wild Storm #6. Scroll down for full-sized preview images. THE WILD STORM #6 Written by Warren Ellis Art by Jon Davis-Hunt, John Kalisz, Steve Buccellato, and Simon Bowland Published by DC Comics Release Date: July 19, 2017 Michael Cray, the world’s best…
First Look: WILDSTORM: A CELEBRATION OF 25 YEARS
This August, DC is thrilled to release WILDSTORM: A CELEBRATION OF 25 YEARS—an oversized hardcover collection to celebrate the lines’ legacy with reprints of WildStorm’s greatest stories, behind-the-scenes material and BRAND-NEW art and stories from some of the greatest writers and artists in the industry. At this year’s WonderCon, we gave you a first look…