Do Anything. Thoughts on Comics and Things by Warren Ellis Archives

I thought this might be worth a reprint. Do Anything #25 by Warren Ellis, as written for Bleeding Cool, published on December 22nd, 2009. 025 Engineer

Adi Tantimedh writes, One thing I like about NYCC is to walk around and stumble upon something completely new that I never heard of. That was how I was

As Stephen Wacker tweeted today; Here's a "scoop"! Issue 5 has another huge artist! Just as we planned! He didn't say who though. I think that's Bleeding

Coincidences where pop culture reflects real events are unpredictable and fascinating. I finished last week’s column before the riots in London escalated

IGN has been handed the full details of the Batman relaunch by DC Comics. Bleeding Cool has already shown you the covers to Batman #1 and Detective Comics

I was talking to animator Jesse Norton after he showed me his comic about his friend Koga surviving the earthquake in Japan, and as we went over the

Just as Bleeding Cool posted yesterday, today certain New York folk seem to be tagging DC's Big Announcement To Move West as happening today. But,

Let’s talk about thriller comics. Thriller comics tend to run counter to juvenile vibe of superhero comics, since the thriller genre tends to carry a

026 "Heroes" is playing through my desktop speakers. And stops. Moves on to "Clay Bodies" by Zola Jesus. The robot head of Jack Kirby, set next to the

025 Engineer Tony Visconti has set up three microphones in front of David Bowie, with volume-triggered gates on them. It was a huge room in Berlin,

024 Down into the streets, the creases of Jack "King" Kirby's face, trapped by what could easily be the canyons of New York city avenues, the grey

023 Deceleration, as the canyons become skyscraper-walled New York streets. We pass the office window that Alex Toth, who never drew a story worthy of his

022 From up here, maybe we can see what we've been talking about this whole time.  A world that, from up here, looks like Jack Kirby's Ego The Living

021 Do you know where you are? I have this vague recollection of someone asking the writer Spider Robinson where his ideas come from, and his answer

020 Bugger the robot head that steals my cigars.  I love these Gil Kane BLACKMARK pages.  It's pretty genetic post-apoc barbarian fantasy.  Archie

019 MEANWHILE, IN THE FEVERPITCH WANKPIT OF PHILIP K DICK'S ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS NESTED INSIDE THE ROBOT HEAD OF JACK KIRBY: someone in America is

018 Story-strips.  It made more sense to me than a lot of other replacement terms for comics.  It reminded me of the early childhood where the British

017 It's right there on the cover of Jack Kirby's 1980s miniseries SILVER STAR, a comics version of a screenplay he wrote and never sold in the 1970s: "A

016 Superman's head by John Lennon: the wit of his line isn't unlike Flenniken's, but it's less trained, a little more hunting after the idea of the shape

015 The artificial muscles in the severed robot head of Jack Kirby start shifting around.  For a moment there, he looks like the piercing-eyed Superman of

014 Jack Kirby had been told, you see, that DC wanted him to reinvigorate their line, and to point the publisher towards the future.  They began by giving

013 Jack Kirby's move to DC, negotiated over a couple of years, was notable for several reasons.  With few exceptions, people just didn't cross town like

012 The story's well known, now.  Disenchanted with Marvel -- with the constraints on his creativity, with not getting his original art back, with Stan

011 No disrespect should be inferred, in the previous section, to Mr Loeb, currently in (I think) the third blush of an incredibly successful career in

010 Comics creators who are also performers: • Afua Richardson, singer • Paul Pope, DJ • Alan Moore, vocalist • Robert Crumb, guitarist • Antony Johnston,

009 Atom Style was named after the fact.  It is perceived to have emerged in the 1950s, and can broadly be defined as a post-War style.  It's a modernist

008 A section from a list of things that happened to comics on a Phildickian alternate world in 2009: • David Gibbons knighted for services to

007 A section from a list of comics creators' three favourite records, because we don't know what Philippe Druillet's favourite records are: "Thriller" -

006 Stan Lee started out writing full scripts.  He was writing full scripts at the commencement of Marvel Comics.  He discovered that, such was the

005 This is a section about things people have said. There's a quote I like from the Japanese film director Takashi Miike, and it goes like this: "We have