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Warren Ellis at SDCC, Photo by Gage Skidmore
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The Image Comics title that was first published in 2015, comes from Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire.
Injection tells the story of a special think-tank brought together by the British government for the sole purpose of theorizing about the future of humanity The five highly specialized individuals decide to take the process further, taking[...]
Once upon a time, Warren Ellis wrote a Satana series for Marvel, coming off his run on Hellstorm and Druid.
It was to be part of an imprint called Strange Tales, conceived to compete with Vertigo, reimagining Marvel's horror characters for a mature readership J.M DeMatteis and Liam Sharpe lined up for Man-Thing, Warren Ellis and[...]
Apparently, all you have to do is ask Warren Ellis the same question 100 times a day and you'll eventually get an answer to your query After being asked relentlessly by Castlevania fans as to whether or not the series would be returning to Netflix anytime soon, Ellis threw up a tweet that should both[...]
That means The Shadow vs Batman, Bettie Page, Dresden Files, Agent 47 — and James Bond: Vargr #1 by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters This is the first issue of Dynamite's partnership with the Ian Fleming estate that has no expanded to include multiple mini-series and one-shots including the work of Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, James Robinson and more[...]
They've tapped some of the top writers in comics to tell new tales of Ian Fleming's super-spy, including Warren Ellis, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Kieron Gillen, and James Robinson Now the publisher is offering up 37 of their OO7 titles digitally as part of a new Humble Bundle You pay what you can, and a[...]
Warren Ellis, the prolific writer of comics, original graphic novels and novels, and creator of the likes of Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, and Injection, and his work on Marvel's Iron Man, Extremis, provided the main source of inspiration for Iron Man 3, has now been given a new honour, a little closer to home.
Because despite[...]
Back in July, DC Comics teased some mixing between the proper DC universe and Warren Ellis's Wildstorm universe when they revealed in a press release about the upcoming Wild Storm spinoff, Michael Cray:
Warren Ellis' critically acclaimed relaunch of WildStorm gets its first solo spinoff series! Michael Cray, professional assassin, has been betrayed by International Operations[...]
A pair of strange women promise to take Shipwright to where the ship will arrive, but only if he gives them the schematics for his personal apporter, a device that could take him to any point on his own world.
Ah, Warren Ellis: Trees, Thunderbolts, and Moon Knight This man is easily one of the greatest[...]
Injection #14 released by Image Comics, written by Warren Ellis and with art by Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire, continues the teams weird and twisted journey through British storytelling.
Because that is what Injection is all about, really: British fiction Ellis has discussed this idea before, but as each arc has focused on a different member[...]
Wildstorm: Michael Cray will expand on Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt's The Wild Storm Written by Bryan Hill (with "contributions" by Ellis) and drawn by N Steven Harris and Dexter Vines, the solicit (and DC's press release) hints at a DCU crossover with a mention of Oliver Queen:
Warren Ellis' critically acclaimed relaunch of WildStorm gets[...]
The anime series from Adi Shankar has been a much anticipated release, featuring a pretty stellar voice cast and animation of a caliber we haven't seen in many years.
Castlevania was written by comic legend Warren Ellis, and inspired by the classic video game series from Japan's Konami It takes most of its source material from Castlevania III: Dracula's[...]
That *could* be just for Latin American markets, but theoretically fan reactions to the teaser's release should prompt a response and clarification from the North American offices of the streaming media giant.
UPDATE:
Right after we posted this, the official Netflix Facebook page released the trailer as well as confirmation that it will indeed arrive on July[...]
And the rules would change week to week based on stuff that was going on… But by the end, it felt like we were under siege with DC, like they had bought us, and they just hated everything we did.
At the time, I reported Warren Ellis saying "When I say "constantly changing", I mean it[...]
A Jeff Scott Campbell Gen 13 story, a Brett Booth Backlash story, a Dustin Nguyen Wildcats 3.0 story and the Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch Authority story that will also be seen in Absolute Authority's new printing.
UPDATE: Our man on the scene, Matthew Quitney e-mails in with the full breakdown.
A hardcover Wildstorm retrospective book will be[...]
Warren Ellis is changing things drastically for the Wildstorm characters in his new series The Wild Storm, but to go along with his words are the redesigns by series artist Jon Davis-Hunt Ellis didn't want the characters to be wearing costumes, but still wanted them to be recognizable And of course, the Engineer's armor has[...]
At the MIT Media Lab yesterday, Warren Ellis was been interviewed by Kevin Slavin about his life, work and thoughts about stuff as part of a series entitled Mythophysics Of The New Normal.
Along the way, he also made mention that he and Jason Howard are taking a break between the second and third volume of his Image[...]
This week's exclusive extended previews from Dynamite Entertainment includes a look at the second issue of KISS: The Demon by Amy Chu, Erik Burnham and Eman Casallos as well as the entire first chapter of James Bond: Eidolon hardcover by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters.
Kiss: The Demon #2
writer: Amy Chu, Erik Burnham artist: Eman Casallos[...]
Keep in mind, this was in response to me asking "how did you get involved in this project?" which should be a simple thing to answer.
Shankar later denied that the show has a showrunner and instead that himself, Klonde, and Warren Ellis all shared that role between the three of them This seems weird given[...]
This is likely that project.
The Globe and Mail reports that Warren Ellis has done the writing for the show's first season.
If any of that, or all of it, is true this show might be fantastic.
While no details have been released, but at some point this year we will get a Castlevania TV show from[...]
Articles about newly released Funko Pop! Vinyls are an endless source of clicks for Bleeding Cool, as people cannot seem to get enough of them.
If there's another thing the readers of Bleeding Cool love, it's Warren Ellis punching Nazis A post about the superstar comics writer talking about whether or not it is okay to[...]
Jason Masters just completed a 12 issue run on James Bond with Warren Ellis for Dynamite Now the artist sits down and gives us his commentary on the grand finale.
Page 1
A little while before I was meant to start on issue 12 Warren [Ellis, writer] sent me a link he'd created in Google maps He'd[...]
It includes the fourth issue of Caitlin Kittredge's run on Grimm, the third issue of the noir / martial arts thriller Intertwined and the final issue of Warren Ellis' run on James Bond.
Grimm Vol 2 #4
writer: Caitlin Kittredge artist: Maria Sanapo, German Erramouspe covers: Maria Sanapo (a), Kyle Strahm "Mask Variant" (b)
Up against the Weird[...]
These include the hardcover collection of Warren Ellis and Jason Masters second Bond storyarc, Eidolon Also James Robinson and Aaron Campbell's Felix Leiter series continues and Andy Diggle and Luca Casalanguida's Hammerhead series wraps up.
JAMES BOND VOL 2: EIDOLON Hardcover
Cover: Dominic Reardon Writer: Warren Ellis Art: Jason Masters, Dominic Reardon
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 136+ pages
James Bond[...]
DC Comics co-publisher Dan Didio and Ski have been showing off the new Wild Storm comic by Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt, describing Warren Ellis' role across the other Wild Storm titles to be launched as comparable with Gerard Way's curating role on Young Animal.
And also to see it as more of a reimagining of the Wildstorm universe[...]
Here we have the guys and gals with the guns with James Bond, Control and Red Team: Double Tap, Center Mass… plus you have Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Andy Diggle and Angela Cruickshank on scripts.
JAMES BOND #11
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
EIDOLON, CHAPTER 5: Eidolon have M and Moneypenny, in a remote safehouse, with[...]
The six part series by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters will now go global and in different languages.
France's Delcourt will publish 007's first comic book adventures in over 20 years in all French speaking territories.
Italy's Panini Group has been granted rights to: Italy (including Italian speaking Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City), Spain, Andorra, Mexico, Spanish speaking South and Latin[...]
Warren Ellis and Phil Hester have a new comic from new publisher AfterShock for October, Shipwreck This is the first time both creators have worked for AfterShock.
SHIPWRECK #1 / $3.99 / 32 pages / Color / On-Sale October 5th
writer: Warren Ellis
artist: Phil Hester
color: Mike Spicer
cover: Phil Hester
1:10 incentive cover: John McCrea
Dr Jonathan Shipwright, sole survivor[...]
On his weekly newsletter, Warren Ellis has announced his new novel, Normal, to be digitally serialised in four parts And he gives us an extract from the opening chapter.
The oaks and firs stood up as they reached the interstate and pushed on through the South West Pacific Highway to the Salmon River Highway, past places[...]
Vargr by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters is getting a hardcover collection containing 168 pages It will also feature a gallery of variant covers.
After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break[...]