2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10670#Comment_10670 2008-01-04T00:03:41-08:00 2008-01-04T00:21:32-08:00 Chris M Ferguson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1141

When did you first encounter Warren's work? And how'd you feel? For me, it was Fell. After that, Transmet. I love the humor and social commentary of his work. There's a charged subtext ...

For me, it was Fell. After that, Transmet.

I love the humor and social commentary of his work. There's a charged subtext that runs underneath like a pack of eels on PCP.

One of the first writers I read when I came back to comics. And KEPT me in comics.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10672#Comment_10672 2008-01-04T00:35:24-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Unsub http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1446

The Authority/Planetary and it blew my freakin mind! It was not even his best work but the art was quite good and it was a great intro to both. I had heard of Transmet and actually went and sought ...

I had heard of Transmet and actually went and sought out his stuff. I even found a few Xmen that he had done that I already owned and thought were excellent but never noticed the author.
Before that the only author I was into was Ennis. It is interesting that even though they have completely different styles a lot of people love both of them.
I do have a hunch there would be more fellow gun nuts on the Ennis forum(is their and Ennis forum?).

I started getting the Authority and I got lucky ,because I live way in the boonies in northern Saskatchewan my local comic shop had the first 4 issues of the authority brand new sealed in plastic at half the cover price! He sold 30 copies of the KISS comic though. I have tried to get everything Warren's put out since then. I also get all of Garths stuff although I missed a few Avatar but I now have almost everything I missed ordered on TPB. I try to get all of Brubakers but my god the guys almost as prolific as Bendis.

I have also hunted down a lot of Warrens work that he did before I clued in on TPB. I have most of the Transmet and the rest on computer. As a gonzo Hunter fan and a lover of quality mind expanding chemicals plus a news and politics fanatic it was almost like it was written for me personally. I also got that feeling from .303 by Ennis.

I can't wait to read Crooked little vein.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10674#Comment_10674 2008-01-04T01:09:47-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 ARES http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=329

Transmetropolitan, a friend of mine introduced me to it shortly after the first few TPBs were released. Read them, loved them, lost track. Reintroduced to his work after Comic-Con this past year, ...

Reintroduced to his work after Comic-Con this past year, his panel was definitely the week's highlight. Now that I'm older (read: more cynical) I appreciate Transmet so much more.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10675#Comment_10675 2008-01-04T01:23:13-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Flabyo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1306

Was browsing the graphic novels in our local Ottakars (man, I miss that book shop), and they have those little 'staff recommends' cards. Someone had put one up for Global Frequency, and it sounded ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10676#Comment_10676 2008-01-04T01:48:10-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Chris M Ferguson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1141

Yeah, I remember I wasn't going to go Saturday to Comic-Con because I went Wednesday, Thurs, and Fri, was really tired, but I went -- first row, actually -- and I couldn't stop laughing. I really ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10678#Comment_10678 2008-01-04T02:03:11-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Orpington2019 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=517

I guess it was probably either transmet or planetary when I recognized ellis as ellis...i can't remember which I read first...but, not too long ago I pulled out some old comics I had bought when I ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10679#Comment_10679 2008-01-04T02:24:29-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 roque http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=482

Transmet. to be honest, I don't think I've perused any of his other work yet, probably because it's inordinately expensive to order books and comics from the States.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10683#Comment_10683 2008-01-04T02:45:21-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 tmofee http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=522

Transmet for me too.. One of my fave webcomic artists was always ranting about it in his blog, so one holiday trip to Adelaide I found some of the Trades in a comic store. Havent looked back...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10685#Comment_10685 2008-01-04T02:49:18-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 muse hick http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=483

it was lazarus churchyard when it was first put out in blast! magazine -- it was one of those things that stuck in my head like a splinter for ages and i kept telling people about it all through ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10686#Comment_10686 2008-01-04T02:58:58-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Wilf http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1523

Transmet for me. I'd seen various people mention it, and *shame* downloaded some off the net. Loved what I saw, and ordered the entire set of TPBs! Since then, anything I've seen with Warren's name ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10690#Comment_10690 2008-01-04T04:06:44-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334

For me it was the Lazarus Churchyard reprints that ran in Judge Dredd Megazine. The 'Lucy's Drowning' story amazed me, but I didn't really pay much attention to who actually wrote it. Things could ...

wrote it. Things could have ended there, had it not been for a workmate who latched on to my evangelical Lazurus-related rantings and leant me all the Transmet TPB's that had been released so far. From thereon in, I was pretty much hooked.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10692#Comment_10692 2008-01-04T05:14:50-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Ian Mayor http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=882

I didn't know it at the time but it was Lazarus Churchyard in BLAST (bought for Paul Chadwick's Concrete I recall). When I started recognising 'a writer I liked' was Transmet.

When I started recognising 'a writer I liked' was Transmet.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10694#Comment_10694 2008-01-04T05:24:09-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Jason Michelitch http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=920

Must have been either some Doom 2099 or Excalibur back when I was a kid and mainlining superheros - but I probably didn't know I was reading Warren. I may have noticed at the time, but I didn't ...

First thing that got me to note the name and start reading other stuff by him was Transmetropolitan... I think it was #26? One of the issues that was just Spider writing a column as narration for the whole issue. Loved it and started tracking down the previous trades. After that I found a few stray issues of Planetary left over on a comic store shelf (I think #'s 2, 3, 5, but I could easily be remembering wrong) and thought it was a kick, and started tracking those down as well. At that point Warren's name on a book became a pretty likely sale for me, and that hasn't changed yet.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10695#Comment_10695 2008-01-04T05:24:33-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Andre Navarro http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1561

Transmetropolitan, issue one. Great, great start.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10696#Comment_10696 2008-01-04T05:28:08-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Leandro Damasceno http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=274

Doom 2099 for me too. And Excalibur, 'cause a friend just wuldn't shut up about it. With Transmet I was hooked for life.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10698#Comment_10698 2008-01-04T05:32:09-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 hank http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=79

Transmet, consciously at least.. I'm sure i have read a ton of his stuff and it would likely surprise me how much I have read.

I'm sure i have read a ton of his stuff and it would likely surprise me how much I have read.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10699#Comment_10699 2008-01-04T05:45:07-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 V http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765

Transmetropolitan My friend Noel had loaned it to me. In fact, at the time he had the full set of trades in his Bioware office (it's possible he still does) and was pushing them on anyone who ...

Transmetropolitan

My friend Noel had loaned it to me.
In fact, at the time he had the full set of trades in his Bioware office (it's possible he still does) and was pushing them on anyone who would listen to him. He got a whole bunch of us reading it that way.

After that I picked up Apparat: The Singles Collection Volume 1.
(All the works in there are fantastic and I highly recommend grabbing a copy if you haven't already.)
That pushed me to view Warren as some variant of third-wave sex-positive feminist and (likely to his great eventual dismay) started off the chain of discoveries that won him my enormously awkward affection.
(The women he writes are always actually women and aren't just men with breasts or cliched stereotypes with no attachment to the real AND he will go out of his way if necessary to support gifted women in his industry.)
I mean the man clearly loves women and also loves women. If you get me.

Umm.... That kind of overshot the answer a bit there. Stopping now.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10700#Comment_10700 2008-01-04T05:45:18-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Fredrik http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=600

Can't remember if it was The Authority, Planetary or Global Frequency that opened my eyes. But one of them for sure.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10704#Comment_10704 2008-01-04T06:14:05-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Brand http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=455

It was Excalibur when I really back into X-men comics in high school. But I didn't really start picking up on writers until my second go around in comics. I has started working at a comic shop ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10707#Comment_10707 2008-01-04T06:43:27-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 shad0903 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1280

It was probably the X-Calibre part of the Age of Apocalypse story, but I didn't have any appreciation for him then. Afterwards it would have been from flipping through Transmet in the store, and ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10708#Comment_10708 2008-01-04T06:44:47-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 alwayscrashing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=162

I was reading through Hellblazer from start to finish and I got to his short run on it, I loved his take on it and read up on him and decided to grab some Transmetropolitan, which just confirmed that ...

So I ordered a few current titles (at the time) he had. Black Gas, Fell, Desolation Jones, Nextwave. I'm a relatively new convert to comics. I was just reading The Sandman trade by trade and when I finished I decided to see what else is out there worth reading, it turns out that there is quite a lot.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10709#Comment_10709 2008-01-04T06:54:37-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Joe Paoli http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1116

Pretty sure it was his run on Stormwatch that put him on my radar. I wrote an enthusiastic letter that got published and everything. I'd read some of his Doom 2099 and Malibu work before that, but ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10710#Comment_10710 2008-01-04T07:01:59-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 harchangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=134

I probably took in more than I'm aware of when i was younger with Excalibur and X-Calibre and some others, but i really picked up on who it was that was writing the comics i was loving with ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10712#Comment_10712 2008-01-04T07:55:10-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Elohim http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1014

The Authority for me (I misread Ellis for Ennis), and then it was one great read after another. * roque - do you live in England? Because the Book Depository do free delivery on their discount ...

* roque - do you live in England? Because the Book Depository do free delivery on their discount books, so they're a good deal.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10718#Comment_10718 2008-01-04T08:24:56-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 crismans http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1602

I kept hearing about Planetary being so good so I picked up the first trade. It was Scars that sealed the deal though.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10721#Comment_10721 2008-01-04T09:10:15-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Doctor Pockets http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=66

Transmet #8, because Ennis and Morrison were talking it up in the back of Preacher and Invisibles, irc. The Helix line was dying, and people were pushing Transmet to keep it alive, because it was ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10724#Comment_10724 2008-01-04T09:35:18-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 BradleySusumu http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1281

I hated Warren Ellis for a few years. I was 12 years old reading Stormwatch, and I was still following characters more than creators. I loved the huge cast of the previous run, then Ellis came in. He ...

Stormwatch, and I was still following characters more than creators. I loved the huge cast of the previous run, then Ellis came in. He either retired or killed 75% of the group. Then he flew a few of the survivors into the Sun in the WildCATS/Aliens crossover. I was pissed.

In college, I got the first trade of Transmet and didn't love it. I rented a few more Transmet trades from a LCS, and it got better but I wasn't hooked like I was with Preacher. I think Planetary* is what did it for me. That and hanging out with a Warren Ellis fan in college, the one other person that loves comics almost as much as I do. Now he's one of the only writers I'll buy anything from.

*I force Planetary on anyone with a geeky inclination that doesn't read a lot of comics.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10725#Comment_10725 2008-01-04T09:36:41-08:00 2008-01-20T01:23:20-08:00 Z http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=184

Transmet, #35 - #45. -Z

-Z]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10729#Comment_10729 2008-01-04T09:41:39-08:00 2008-01-04T09:46:21-08:00 TechnocratJT http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=558

Huh. This is muddled in my head time wise, so I think this is what happened. Excalibur or Doom 2099? I was not really reading comics religiously at that time, but buying some on automatic. I ...

This is muddled in my head time wise, so I think this is what happened.

Excalibur or Doom 2099? I was not really reading comics religiously at that time, but buying some on automatic. I recall being very impressed with the above, but no idea why I bought them. Latter, I know I heard amazing word of mouth on Stormwatch and latter still interesting things on the then Helix Transnmet and connected the name up with the above Marvel titles. I started Transmet with Freeze me with your Kiss and Stormwatch with the alternate reality issues in volume 2?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10730#Comment_10730 2008-01-04T09:45:00-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Gypsy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=30

Transmetropolitan. A friend handed me a thick stack of the TPBs along with a few issues of From the Desk of Warren Ellis and said "You'll like these. Read."

From the Desk of Warren Ellis and said "You'll like these. Read."]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10735#Comment_10735 2008-01-04T10:14:38-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 lazarus corporation http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=630

Andrew Eldritch Lazarus Churchyard in BLAST, unsurprisingly

Andrew Eldritch Lazarus Churchyard in BLAST, unsurprisingly]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10740#Comment_10740 2008-01-04T10:24:01-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 TacoHugsPHD http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=515

I didn't know it at the time but I read some of his Counter-X reboot and found a few of his Hellstorm issues in a longbox in my parents basement last year. My first conscious exposure was a friend in ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10766#Comment_10766 2008-01-04T14:03:57-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Elohim http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1014

I did that with Testament... Now I've given up on working out when issues are coming out and have resigned myself to waiting for the trades to come out.

Now I've given up on working out when issues are coming out and have resigned myself to waiting for the trades to come out.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10770#Comment_10770 2008-01-04T14:30:30-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Spiraltwist http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=426

The now husband then boyfriend loaned me a TRANSMET trade to read. I was hooked. Oddly, I had other Ellis work in my collection, but didn't know it at the time.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10773#Comment_10773 2008-01-04T14:54:24-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Willie http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=474

Planetary Books 1 to 3 - best sci fi comics ever Authority Books 1 and 2

Authority Books 1 and 2]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10792#Comment_10792 2008-01-04T18:23:12-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 roque http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=482

Elohim - nope, Japan. thanks anyway though.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10811#Comment_10811 2008-01-05T01:30:42-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Mr. Pants http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=828

Man Of The Atom Until then I hadn't heard hide nor hair of him. I really started getting into Warren's stuff though when Planetary came out. But yes, Man of The Atom was how I first found him.

Until then I hadn't heard hide nor hair of him. I really started getting into Warren's stuff though when Planetary came out. But yes, Man of The Atom was how I first found him.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10813#Comment_10813 2008-01-05T01:37:18-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 acacia http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1559

It would have to be 1996's "The Willow Garden", the violin was simply enchanting. Afterwards, Transmet and the Die Puny Humans site. What a versatile man.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10821#Comment_10821 2008-01-05T06:41:47-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Redwynd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=653

My first encounter with Warren's work is something of a tale... I had traveled five thousand kilometers, and across an international border, with a friend of mine to visit his internet girlfriend. ...

I had traveled five thousand kilometers, and across an international border, with a friend of mine to visit his internet girlfriend. I had no details about this trip, and was being brought along (and paid for) simply because I had experience traveling and the friend had none. When we arrived, I realized that we were in a mountain-bound town of 20,000 in Washington State. The only notable elements of the town were that it was home to both a state and federal penitentiary. And, I was belatedly informed, the girl we were to be visiting was 16, whereas my friend was 21.

Needless to say, thing went sour, and fast.

Three days later, alone and after having hitch-hiked to Seattle and caught a bus to the proper side of the border, I somehow managed to find a distant relative of mine who lived in Vancouver. He is seven-foot-one, and lives in a basement apartment with six-foot ceilings. I had arrived just in time for his birthday, so he, myself, and several of his friends got roaringly drunk and discussed, among other things, fetish body-modification and zombies.

After everyone else had gone home, I pulled out Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I had already finished it, but had nothing else to do and no inclination for bed, so I was going to re-read it. My giant host took one look at me, and handed me the first three TPB of Transmetropolitan, then promptly passed out on the kitchen floor with a half-eaten ham on his chest.

This is how I first encountered Warren. If you've read this, sir, thank you. Nothing could have complimented that experience better than Spider.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10824#Comment_10824 2008-01-05T07:46:39-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Pooka http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=216

I'm pretty sure that my first was Transmetro...I read it when me and my husband first got together. He had the entire run, plus the trades. When my husband and I bought our comic book store, my dad ...

When my husband and I bought our comic book store, my dad had some doubts about the quality of comics. He'd never really paid much attention to them, so I made him read transmetro and he absolutely loved it. It made him miss his political and enviromental activism days when he tore hell through the big coorperations, coal companies, and crooked politians...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10826#Comment_10826 2008-01-05T09:13:03-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 mrcreek http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=92

it was doom 2099, back when i only read comics in french and in magazines. it was a powerful work, especially during the 2099AD storyline. there was a standalone book there that echoed in ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10833#Comment_10833 2008-01-05T09:51:09-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 F. David Swallow II http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=815

i would have to say, i first noticed his name on Ultimate FF, but i seem to remember reading his stuff before that.... either way, shortly after that arc, i picked up the Lazurus Churchyard trade in ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10844#Comment_10844 2008-01-05T12:40:09-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Brad McLoughlin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=620

Though I was unaware of it at the time, it was probably Lazarus Churchyard when I was reading some of my sisters comics at the age of ten. After that, it was probably that Storm story with Mikhail ...

Is Apparat worth picking up?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10847#Comment_10847 2008-01-05T12:44:00-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 TechnocratJT http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=558

Is Apparat worth picking up? Very much so. While I have enjoyed Warren's work in general over time, I view Apparat as the first works in his current 2nd, for my taste, "golden age".

Is Apparat worth picking up?

Very much so. While I have enjoyed Warren's work in general over time, I view Apparat as the first works in his current 2nd, for my taste, "golden age".]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10853#Comment_10853 2008-01-05T13:37:38-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Ava Jarvis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=317

A long time ago I was having a very bad life indeed. I was staying at a friend's house (while the very bad things were happening all around me) and picked up the first Transmetropolitan ...

And that was the beginning.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10863#Comment_10863 2008-01-05T15:26:19-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 babymole http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=314

My cousin gave me a massive pile of comics/magazines sometime in the 90's and in it was issues one and three of Blast!, and I've forever kept Lazarus Churchyard in my head... I've always remembered ...

One of my favourite comics after that was a Marvel thing called 'Ruins', which was the anti 'Marvels' and I just dug the darkness of it, the dirty artwork. When I got back into comics two years ago, after about twelve years away, I dug the two issues out with all my Cerebus comics. I'd just ordered the Laz trade, and discovered warrenellis.com, and was really happy when I noticed Ellis had written 'Ruins', but I can't remember why I picked up the damn thing in the first place.

Lazarus Churchyard has appeared in my dreams once a month for well over a decade.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10864#Comment_10864 2008-01-05T15:27:23-08:00 2008-01-05T15:27:45-08:00 Anoxia http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=282

After asking my partner at the time what he was reading (Warren's LiveJournal), I was handed a copy of Bad Signal and several of Planetary... It's been a steady decent into madness ever since.

It's been a steady decent into madness ever since.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10866#Comment_10866 2008-01-05T15:55:30-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 lofidelity http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=969

The Planetary comic with the secret military base and the scientist in a pit in the basement....a friend left it at work while I was doing graveyard at a 7-11 store. After that he lent me a couple ...

And, I finally have a comic shop that'll hold new comics for me, so I got a nice phone call that my copy of Doktor Sleepless is waiting for me to take it to a good home.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10867#Comment_10867 2008-01-05T16:06:33-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299

The first Ellis I read was Orbiter (surprised that hasn't shown up yet in this discussion), but I didn't start reading him seriously or consecutively until Transmet. I've since picked up Fell, Global ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10868#Comment_10868 2008-01-05T16:19:34-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Will Couper http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=190

It may have been an issue of 'Hellstorm', a random comic that appeared in the house and I wasn't aware of him at the time. The first I consciously came across Warren's work was the first ...

The first I consciously came across Warren's work was the first 'Authority' trade. Cracking.


Will]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10869#Comment_10869 2008-01-05T16:20:42-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 TechnocratJT http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=558

The Planetary comic with the secret military base and the scientist in a pit in the basement....a friend left it at work while I was doing graveyard at a 7-11 store. That was the preview wasn't ...

The Planetary comic with the secret military base and the scientist in a pit in the basement....a friend left it at work while I was doing graveyard at a 7-11 store.

That was the preview wasn't it? Appeared in the back of a bunch of WS books, and was right before the DC buy out.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10875#Comment_10875 2008-01-05T16:58:33-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Mark W http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1126

I think my first exposure to warren was the aborted run that he had on Dr Strange. Only 3 issues long, but some of the best writing for the good doctor at that time.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10876#Comment_10876 2008-01-05T17:05:20-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Jamie Coville http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=616

I feel old. I believe my first experience with Warrens work is when he took over Hellstorm at Marvel in the early/mid 90s. I had bought the book since #1 as I liked the character from the old ...

I believe my first experience with Warrens work is when he took over Hellstorm at Marvel in the early/mid 90s. I had bought the book since #1 as I liked the character from the old Defenders I picked up from the back issue bins. The new Hellstorm was quite different, but I stuck around. I particularly enjoyed a story about a faith healer unknowingly taking souls from hell and putting them into comatose bodies, "healing" them.

Warren took over after that. The book was a lot more gory, something about a serial killer wrapping himself with the guts of his victims as armor IIRC. It grossed me out and I wasn't entertained. There was a lot more Santana, whom I never really cared for. I dropped the book.

I would later pick up DV8 #1 which had his name in the credits. I didn't like it either. The characters had a very smug, better than you attitude which was off putting.

I think my next exposure was Doom 2009, where Warren did a Doom takes over the USA story. I bought some of that but never stuck around. I had bought some of the early Doom 2009 and just found the character didn't ring "true" to the Doom I read in modern Marvel. I still had that feeling with Ellis' take on it, which is why I dropped it.

I did borrow and read a TPB of Transmet which wasn't bad but didn't really inspire me to buy the series. It's still something I need to get at some point. I've got the first TPB, just need to get the rest eventually.

I did like the early Planetary and Authority Trades and some stuff after that.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10883#Comment_10883 2008-01-05T18:55:45-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 LBA http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=615

It started when a friend recommended Planetary, I loved it then went on to Global Frequency, and was hooked I'm still POd that Global Frequency wasn't picked up... dammit at least we have the ...

then went on to Global Frequency, and was hooked

I'm still POd that Global Frequency wasn't picked up... dammit

at least we have the net and i was able to find a copy of the pilot]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10907#Comment_10907 2008-01-05T22:26:59-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 ratjin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=257

Druid, really, in '95. Short, but beautiful. This was my first hint that I should be reading books written by certain people instead of just buying every fucking X-book they'd sell me. I remember ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10910#Comment_10910 2008-01-05T22:36:14-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 jesseipel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=76

A friend of mine was on me (and another friend) to read Transmetropolitan after a number of shared discussions about Y: The Last Man. I balked at first because 60 issues seemed like a lot and I ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10913#Comment_10913 2008-01-05T22:56:50-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 sacredchao http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1501

I worked at a games (D&D type stuff) store and one of the guys from a local games distributor wanted me (and anyone else who would listen) to read Fell. So, I sat behind the counter and read the ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10968#Comment_10968 2008-01-06T13:48:31-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Ted http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=260

I first got into Ellis indirectly via The Authority, and directly through his StormWatch trades. I wanted something different to the superheroes I was getting at the time, and I kept hearing that ...

I bought the first trade on Amazon; immediately I finished it, I went and bought the second. Since that day, I've been falling down the slippery slope. Within a year, I might just give up on comic stores, and just mail Warren half my money each month.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10974#Comment_10974 2008-01-06T16:22:38-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 ScottBieser http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=477

Ministry of Space. Or the first two installments, anyway. I love alt-history fiction. By the time MoS 3 came out, I'd started reading the TRANSMET trades and those are what really hooked me. (Funny ...

Ministry of Space. Or the first two installments, anyway. I love alt-history fiction. By the time MoS 3 came out, I'd started reading the TRANSMET trades and those are what really hooked me. (Funny thing, I'd noticed TRANSMET back in the early 90s when it was being released as pamphlets, but somehow it didn't grab me then. I guess my brain just wasn't ready then for that sort of sideways futurism.)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10975#Comment_10975 2008-01-06T16:46:08-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 lizvelrene http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1619

Bought the first issue of Transmetropolitan when it came out. I was a little young for it, though, thought it was cool but strange, and didn't get it again for awhile. A little later on I picked up ...

I had unknowingly read some of his stuff before (2099, Excalibur, etc) but that was the first time I really noticed him as Someone To Pay Attention To.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10977#Comment_10977 2008-01-06T17:54:51-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 nativio289 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1072

It was Excalibur. I picked them up on a whim, loved the sense of humor. I think one of my first had the bit with Pete Wisdom sitting in a wheelchair with a bald cap poorly placed atop his head as he ...

That lead me to Doom 2009.
And by that point I was into Ellis enough to get a little hard-on when I saw in an Image house ad that Warren was taking over Stormwatch.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=10984#Comment_10984 2008-01-06T19:19:38-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 screaming meat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1219

I thought i saw something in 2000ad but I'm not sure... thats where I heard of all the usual (moore, Morrison, ennis et al)... such a long damn time ago. Then a friend at WHSmiths who claimed to ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=11044#Comment_11044 2008-01-07T10:15:28-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 BrianKellett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=234

The Excalibur where they run off to the pub. Beautiful little character piece and the genesis of my favourite phrase for going to the loo. "I'm off to water the daisies". But of ...

"I'm off to water the daisies".

But of course I didn't remember the name at the time, so I would guess that like a lot of folks Transmet would be where I thought, "fuck me, this writer's good - wossis name?"

Which then resparked my interest in comics thereby costing me money that I could have spent on cheap whores.

At least comics don't give you clap.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=11071#Comment_11071 2008-01-07T15:00:23-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 Ferburton http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=53

Transmet.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=11073#Comment_11073 2008-01-07T16:13:20-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 cjh http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=775

It was his Marvel work on Excalibur (loved the Red court concept for the Hellfire Club) and Druid that first caught my attention. That carried over to Stormwatch and eventually Transmet and Planetary ...

The funny thing is that I have an old, beat up, trade of Lazarus Churchyard that I picked up from a Half Price Books that I didn't actually connect to him for some reason.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=11166#Comment_11166 2008-01-08T11:42:39-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 madmatt213 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=761

I'd known Ellis' work through college (2000-2004), when a friend of mine would talk about him, but at that time I'd only borrow my friend's Garth Ennis books to read. Then in 2006, I got back into ...

The Boys was first starting up. Since that book was getting me back into comic shops, I decided to start reading others, which is when I ending up getting newuniversal (I knew Ellis by name and I didn't need prior knowledge to get into the series). Soon after that, I started buying more TPBs (throughout the 90's and double-0's I would occasionally get an Alan Moore or Frank Miller trade) and ended up getting the Desolation Jones and Down trades. Now, I'm averaging eight to ten floppies per week (that's just new books, not back-issues, which I periodically horde). Funny, since the book that got me back into comics has been a fairly large disappointment to me, though I'll give Garth credit, this current "Glorious Five Year Plan" arc is infinitely better than the "Get Some" (Batman/Nightwing analogue) arc.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=431&Focus=11190#Comment_11190 2008-01-08T14:40:53-08:00 2013-05-22T20:47:21-07:00 blu http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1609

Transmetropolitan, a friend of mine introduced me to it shortly after the first few TPBs were released. Read them, loved them, lost track. Same here. Then I picked up Crooked Little Vein and ...

Transmetropolitan, a friend of mine introduced me to it shortly after the first few TPBs were released. Read them, loved them, lost track.

Same here. Then I picked up Crooked Little Vein and remembered how much I liked his warped sense of humor and twisted characters. Been chewing on the first few Doktor Sleepless issues lately...]]>