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How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

L_WILL — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:18:16 -0800

For me it was a segment about steampunk in this tv show "AOTS" and they happened to show the comic and the website it is on I'm so glad that I found this because, I was looking for a good graphic novel to read =D

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AzraelAngel — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:22:55 -0800

I sort of stumbled across it Back in March this year. Glad I did though worth the wait (nearly!) every week!

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lazarus corporation — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:37:10 -0800

I saw it in the local Comics shop (Dave's Comics, in Brighton) a few months ago - it called to me from the shelf.

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Richard Frankel — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:54:31 -0800

Ellis website. =)

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kperkins — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:45:19 -0800

Bad Signal or Warren's blog.

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D- — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:48:34 -0800

/co/, 4chan.

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oscillateur — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:08:54 -0800

Bad signal.

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keyofsilence — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:47:06 -0800

I started reading Transmetropolitan, mentioned it on facebook and one of my friends pointed me in this direction.

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johnjones — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:49:01 -0800

I think I recall hearing about it first on The Engine and then more on Bad Signal.

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Gekko — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:27:01 -0800

Edited (sorry) for focusing reasons.
Someone twitted about it (I think it was digitalyn, or maybe Warren) or I must have read about it on Facebook.
Actually since I first answered, I can't really remember: weird!

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meaninglessnoise — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:45:57 -0800

My little brother was talking about Whitechapel (as a great community to meet artists/writers/geeks) for a long time, before I ever figured out it was a webcomic as well. Somewhere along the way made the connection that Warren was writing some ongoing thing... Stumbled in about March of this year not really knowing what to expect.

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MrMonk — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:55:39 -0800

Freakangels was mentioned in the forum of some webcomic whose name I no longer remember. Better to be here than there.

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odarable — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:32:55 -0800

I went to a comic con where Warren was speaking, and I was all embarrased to not have heard of it before.

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L_WILL — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:06:36 -0800

@odaelisabeth- wow, good thing nobody found you out and called you out in front of him, haha

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Jace — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:06:45 -0800

I found it here yesterday. Saw three key words: "steampunk" and Girl Genius. So glad I stumbled across this place.

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Purple Wyrm — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:53:31 -0800

Found it via this Boing Boing entry back at the start of the whole thing. The comments are hilarious considering only the first episode was available.

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Rootfireember — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:59:44 -0800

I found it from the LJ which someone pointed me at during a phase where I thought trolling certain ljs with a modest proposal and babyback ribs recipes was funny. Okay so I still think its funny but haven't acted on that in a while. I had no idea who Warren was beyond an interesting fellow; I liked his Falconer stuff, and the music he put up on the lj, started reading the .com, found whitechapel, and started reading FA from around the beginning, though at first I was pretty much afraid of everyone here.
I got snagged on FA from the promo-pieces before the comic popper went up. I still think they're lovely.

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NocturnalAsylum — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:03:12 -0800

looking through various online publications on steampunk found an article on www.coilhouse.net. found it to be extremely addictive cant wait to see what comes next and need to get myself some merch...

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Argos — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:38:20 -0800

Warren posted on his twitter that if we had nothing to do over the weekend, there was plenty of FA to catch up on.

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thud — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:12:43 -0800

A comic series called Sin Titulo had a blog entry by a reader who mentioned FreakAngels as another of his regular must-read favorites. Well, he was right!
Isn't the internet wonderful?

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mister86 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:16:26 -0800

Rootfireember directed me here.

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L_WILL — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:25:07 -0800

@mister86- then hes a good friend

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sneak046 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:25:12 -0800

Pretty sure it was a Bad Signal, or Warrenellis.com. Been here since Ep 1, (lurking for the first few months).

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diello — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:34:58 -0800

My ex was plugging it before it was Go (so I got to see the cool promo images while they were new :)

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steevo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:51:26 -0800

Saw this pic somewhere: http://www.freakangels.com/?p=22&page=3, been hooked since before there were words.

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Dextra — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:14:56 -0800

I've been net stalking Warren for a few years now. I consider Freakangels a reward for my vigilance. :D

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pookylou — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:40:50 -0800

Following Warren on Twitter, moving to an office where they didn't monitor internet usage :)

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KidRitalin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:27:58 -0800

I think it was looking up the Warren Ellis bibliography wiki and going "hey here's one I don't have to track down the trades of!", but it's possible Texture had chewed my ear off about it for long enough I started paying attention.

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Darkest — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:37:19 -0800

Someone told me "Read this" and now here I am.

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Masterful Eyes — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:16:53 -0800

Fresh Ink on G4, that's where I found my webcomic addiction.

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odarable — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:56:06 -0800

@L_WILL: Well duh, I knew of Warren and adored Transmet and some other work of his. I just hadn't heard of this new stuff.

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L_WILL — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:43:56 -0800

@odaelisabeth- thats good, sorry if I offended you about your knowledge about his work

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steaming badger — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:11:33 -0800

I was following Paul on DA, not entirely sure why but possibly because 'Spoonbard' reminded me of spoongaurd, or more accurately: SPOOOOOOOOONNNNGAAAAAUURRRRDDD
Would have spotted it in Dave's Comics eventually, glad I found FA earlyish though.

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DC — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:20:48 -0800

I found Warren's site through London loves comics and it was a matter of time until I was here following FA every week.

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celan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:45:33 -0800

My Terence McKenna fixation led me to read about Doktor Sleepless. Which led me to look up Mr. Ellis' other works. Which led me here. The end.

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SilentObjector — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:11:59 -0800

Our host's own weblog.

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costa_k — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:05:16 -0800

Reading "Transmetropolitan" led me to Warren on LiveJournal, which led me to FA.

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WaxPoetic — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:26:20 -0800

long lost high school chum thought i'd dig Transmet. I started surfing for more info on Warren, and found this place. the promos were gorgeous, but i stuck around for the conversations and level of awareness of the world. and then FA actually started. and that was a good day. and now, people owe me beers for telling them about it, too. win.

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dddrum — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:40:37 -0800

For me it was (as is so often the case) serendipitous link-to-link browsage, wasting time in the way the Good Lord intended. I find so many wonderful things that way; my bookmark tab has been worn to a virtual nubbin. (Snx snx.) Freakangels is a particular wonderment, in that its quality just keeps on rising. IMVHO, FA will be the standard by which webcomics are measured, and I'm delighted to have been in the bleachers since episode one. Happy 2010, everybody.

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lkeller — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:03:18 -0800

They were talking it up on coilhouse.net before the first episode was even out. I actually had not heard of Mr. Ellis way back when, if you can imagine.

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SaiFai — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:26:54 -0800

I first heard about it at Comic Con at Warren Ellis' panel. I didn't really here any details about it there unfortunately, then later some fan of FreakAngels was flaming this other web comic saying it sucked and said he wished more stuff was like FreakAngels then gave a link for the comic here. I followed that link and I read everything. My thoughts being, "Yeah, this is good."

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arvandor — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:45:02 -0800

An article on comicbookresources.com. Reading from episode 1. Love it.

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PatrickBrown — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:42:18 -0800

I discovered it after starting my own serialised dramatic webcomics. For all I knew at the time it was an entirely new approach I'd invented. People soon set me straight, and FreakAngels was one of the first they set me straight to.

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TacoHugsPHD — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:54:49 -0800

Bad signal. Going to miss that list.

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rickiep00h — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:06:06 -0800

A friend of mine (really who I owe most of my online life to) used to have warrenellis.com as her home page in Firefox, and I kept getting interested by the random shit that came from there, so I went myself. Happened to be about two weeks before FA fired up. My interwubs life hasn't been the same since, really.

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CaptOtter — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:38:45 -0800

Web stalking Warren Ellis.

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LA_Gomez — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:55:18 -0800

Advertisement on the back of Black Summer

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Silhouette — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:41:39 -0800

I can't remember really. I think I was reading various web comics and there was a link to this one, so I decided to check it out. I'm glad I did. =)

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Alchymist — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:56:35 -0800

Someone posted it on the leasticoulddo.com forums, which was then mentioned on the chatroom. I'm extremely glad I decided to take a look.

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dangerofdeath66 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:33:41 -0800

from the Warren Ellis web site.....
Avoided it for ages....web comics scare me ...cracked ...read ...it from episode 1-83 today ....
its fucking brilliant...feels like Wyndham meets love & rockets via Stand by me..
Just great nails in the seat entertainment.... love the art work too ...bad me web comics are good...
look more....

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paisley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:08:16 -0800

I am in development of my own web-comic and a freind of mine sent me the url. Absolutly awsome

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Tsunami — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:42:36 -0800

A friend of mine gave the the url so I could check the teaser illustrations that were made before the webcomic started. I am totally hooked up since then.

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Yoav — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:58:36 -0800

Texture told me about remake, dropped in there, kept coming back and then got hooked in to Freakangels.

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Pedes — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:44:41 -0800

I found it through MeiLin Miranda's (author of two web novels: ) webcomic thread. God instantly hooked, of course.

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MattDemers — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:24:20 -0800

I love Warren's comic work, then found his site, then found the forums.

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Thea — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:28:42 -0800

I chanced across it in a search for "steampunk" + some other term that I can't recall. I highly doubt is was "comic".

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wings_of_wrath — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:32:09 -0800

I think I saw a banner advertising it on some other webcomic I regularly read, went over to the site and bookmarked it, but postponed reading the full archive until yesterday, when I had the time.

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LatexSanta — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:38:28 -0800

Aha, embarrassed to say I'm a Stumbler. Pressed the button and hey presto, up comes chapter 80. I then read every episode over a weekend from the beginning. Very impressed so far - on the lookout for books.

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EelockTheWarrior — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:39:27 -0800

i saw an ad for it a year or two[?? could it be so long??] ago in the back of a (no doubt) Warren Ellis Avatar comic... no idea what it could have been, though...

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shadodragon — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:44:47 -0800

Someone posted a page on a discussion board at work ... looked cool so had to check it out

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octopusride — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:59:59 -0800

I was specifically searching for a good post-apocalyptic webcomic that I could read for free (I'm on a post-apoc kick lately). FREAKANGELS is a real page-clicker; I discovered it just this morning and am halfway caught up. Bravo, gents!

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dbizzle — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:27:55 -0800

I was sitting here thinking about how much I enjoyed Supergod so far, and wiki'd Warren Ellis and found this.

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kamikaze2011 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:01:43 -0800

A good friend of mine was showing off some new comic book he had (I can't remember the name of it now, lol) and he wouldn't let everyone look at it, but he let me cause we're close and in the very back, there was an add for the FA website. Neither of us knew what it was so I checked it out and now I'm officially hooked ;)

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Psychomeltdown — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:34:56 -0800

A friend on another board mentioned it and I looked it up. hooked ever since.

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Flatlined — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:54:17 -0800

I found Freakangels from an ad on a different webcomic I read. I can't remember if it was The Phoenix Requiem, Girls With Slingshots, or something else. But it took me maybe 4 days to read up til the newest chapter (I was sick for the last one, so there was quite a lot of uninterrupted reading time). I've been telling my friends about it, too. :)

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mojobo1 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:41:04 -0800

I found it from watching Attack Of The Show on G4 Tv. I'm glad I decided to check it out. :)

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KsomotoSan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:13:17 -0800

A friend of mine asked me if I liked graphic novels. I said I did.
Linky.
Clicky.
Mouth gapes wide and read it all in one day. <.<
I wish I wasn't so impatient, sometimes. <.<

P.S.:
I'm trying to find ANY way to nab one of those black FA field bags with the white markings on it. They're always sold out. Anything anyone knows about that for me? :(

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SaySomething — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:10:28 -0800

I searched "Steampunk webcomic" and I got this. I'm glad I found this!

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jaheira — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:08:57 -0800

I can't remember (:

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OshkoshJohn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:16:12 -0800

I followed a link off Girl Genius, and read myself to the then current comic. I was raving about Freakangels to my older daughter, and she asked if I had ever seen Transmetropolitan. She has been a Warren Ellis fan for a long time, and passed along ALL of Transmetropolitan for me to read and return, on threat of pain if I lost or ruined any of them. I have enjoyed British dystopia science fiction, steampunk, and such since I can remember. I only began reading graphic novels a couple of years ago. I read underground comix back in the sixties, and this stuff is like that, but with better art and stories!

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exiled_aingeal — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:54:12 -0800

My webcomic addicted best friend told me of it and I read right through in one night, work the next day be damned!

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Goldsworthy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:31:57 -0800

I read about it on Avatar's website, I was also in the audience in San Diego when Warren Ellis and publisher William A. Christensen made the annoucement.

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Sarah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:42:10 -0800

I googled Warren Ellis because I missed Transmetropolitan and needed an Ellis fix. (I stumbled across lots of other stuff too and am very happy I live near Forbidden Planet.)

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libberation — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:53:50 -0800

Right so this is a little messed up...I was looking for a recipe for Tea Wine and stumbled upon the discussion thread on this board. I've never heard of the creators to my knowledge, altho I did have a pretty serious webcomic addiction back in my college days. But anyway I poked around the forum for a while until I got curious as to what this FREAKANGELS thing was everyone kept talking about, clicked on the link, and about five hours later came up for air. WOW!

tldr: Tea Wine

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Brens — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:43:37 -0800

through the playlist section of the saturday times.
caught my eye as it's the only time've ever seen a webcomic mentioned in the paper.
kept the issue, looking at it now, it's been two days shy of a year since i started reading freakangels.
it's been a good year!

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Mickierat — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:58:59 -0800

Started following Warren Ellis on twitter because of someone's follow friday recommendation, followed an update post of his here. I LOVE post-apoc fiction so it was perfect for me. I was unemployed at the time so I read the whole damn thing in three days in blocks of about two to three hours at a time. I like to read comics slow and look at all the pretty pictures. I'm totally addicted, even bought the first graphic novel version from my local indy comic store that features a whole rack of only Warren Ellis titles. Free comics on the web are nice, but it's a totally different and much more satisfying experience to hold it in your hands.

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fod_xp — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:20:43 -0700

I first discovered Freakangels from an advertisement from Anna Mercury #1, way back in 2008. My LCS store had a few boxes of discounted issues, so I ended up spending $5 on Anna Mercury #1, Gravel # 0-2, and one of the Thunderbolts issues.

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alanborky — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:54:03 -0700

I started out checking to see if Lovecraft is Missing'd started up again - it hasn't - and somehow ended up here.

As a Scouse Englishman - almost a contradiction in terms - I'm a particular fan of the unholy triumvirate of Morrison, Ellis & Moore, and although I wasn't keen on the Freakangels as a name, or the APPARENT unoriginality of the concept after reading the first page, I told myself it wouldn't do any harm to read one more page - something I've been spending the last few hours telling myself over and over again!

Ellis, you're a master story tellin' bastard - I hope y'deathsticks give y'cancer, 'cause now I'm hooked, y'sod!

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D.J. — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:27:55 -0700

I'm pretty sure off an ad in one of Warren's comics. Doktor Sleepless, maybe.

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staticgirl — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:47:53 -0700

2000AD chaps kept referring to the art compos on here and then I started clicking on the other links. Found FA. Got happy. Read all but last three episodes in one go. Retired with major headache and a comics-crush on Connor.

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Magnulus — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:01:40 -0700

I didn't stumble onto it at all when I first found this place last year.
Ginja told me to come here because it's allegedly awesome.
Alleged by people like Ginja... and later me.

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SonOfCann — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:07:59 -0700

Ellis pimping it on his twitter. Never looked back.

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longtimelurker — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:07:09 -0700

Read TRANSMET in college as I could really relate to the Journalist vs. the Establishment motif. Got out of comics but visited the Warren Ellis website over the years for nostalgia. I knew he was going to do webcomics eventually in a big way and I wasn't wrong.

Got hooked on episode 7. HOOKED. Kirk looking up at the sky, glancing at his watch just to double check when he already knows the time, getting on the horn to tell everyone it's going to be a good day. The only time a writer will spend so much time on such a scene is when he has confidence that what he has is REALLY GOOD. It's like Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN or Dickens' BLEAK HOUSE. These are writers who know how to get to the point but they will build it up when the payoff is worth it.

Took a while to brave up enough to WHITECHAPEL to register and make comments. But when you're getting this much artistry for free you have to pay respects.

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~lis — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:23:10 -0700

a friend of mine, who's like a walking talking encyclopedia on sarcasm, web humour, drugs and post-apocalyptic sutffs, gave me the link to it.
:}

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government spy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:17:44 -0700

I started reading Doktor Sleepless when it first came out, and then after reading the backmatter, signed up at the Doktor Sleepless website, and then hopped on whitechapel, about a week before the first episode of FreakAngels. (and man was I shocked, I had no idea that I would be this hooked, by something this good, for this free!) Took me alot longer to actually create an account here, and then it took maybe about a year before I started making an ass of myself.

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norton — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:54:02 -0700

Bad Signal (back in the day)

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BettyBoolean — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:12:28 -0700

I use a program called comic rack and they had a link to it because they added a feature to view web comics

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kronik — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:49:14 -0700

Been hearing about this for a while over at the CBR forum, and finally gave it a shot. Well, I wasn't let down at all. Fanfuckintastic! I wanted to take it slow, but my self control is shit and I couldn't stop myself from reading through the entire collection last week.

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fa4ever — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:24:29 -0700

I was walking by a friend of mine while he was on his laptop reading one of the earlier epsiodes, where arkady is hopping from place to place, and I thought, "Is she teleporting? Cool." And I asked him what it was and read it all in a couple of days and now I'm an official FA junkie. When this comic ends there had better be something just as good after, or I'm gonna need rehab :).

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longtimelurker — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:15:20 -0700

"...I'm gonna need rehab."

You're not the only one, Sibling....

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gridban — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:59:53 -0700

A friend of mine posted on Facebook "12:30 on Friday and no FreakAngels. Help!" so I googled FreakAngels, started reading and was hooked immediately - this was near the end of book 4, I caught up with the previous episodes just in time for book 5.

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256 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:17:23 -0700

From
Clayton Cubitt's CONSTANT SIEGE tumblr
to
warrenellis.com
to
Whitechapel
to
FreakAngels itself.

Not sure what led me to SIEGE (probably something scurrilous).

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True Blue Mug — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:05:37 -0700

I was reading over The Webcomic List Awards. Freak Angels was up for Best Colour art and won.

I read up to the current update in one sitting, couldn't take my eyes away from the screen:)

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Bespectacled — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:36:16 -0700

Every time I've tried to read the first issue of Transmet on the Vertigo No. 1s page, my internet browser has crashed. It got to the point that I was trying daily to get to that first issue. I became mildly obsessed with Transmet, and from there looked everywhere for other examples of Ellis's work to see what on earth could possibly be contained in that first issue.

Basically, because my town doesn't have a sufficient comics store, I started reading FreakAngels.

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Maladicta — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:23:39 -0700

My Star Wars powered comic friend Tom Taylor said that I should read it. It was my first foray into comics, baring a previously quickly scanned JHM. I'm glad I found it, and am still determined to add my 'how to make a steam punk satchel' to the blog area. As I've not even yet figured out how to add a picture... this may take awhile. But an overall 'Yay!' to a great online community.

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KidAnarchy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:48:41 -0700

I got into a converstion with some cybergoth geezer who worked at forbidden planet in leicester about Warren Ellis (I have been a fan since transmetropolitan which I have in its entirety) and he mentioned it so i checked it....i think it was about #20 or something I just lurked till now.

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SoftSpot — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:22:04 -0700

purely by accident. Just doing a bit of googling and all of a sudden.... big hit. Lucky shot so to speak, very lucky shot. :D

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Gimbal — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:55:10 -0700

I was reading the web comic, Zom-Ben when I decided to get adventurous with it, and check out the "links" page.

I didn't see anyone slipping me a red pill, in the process; maybe someone had snuck it into my beer.

The story is awesome, and the art, superb. I look forward to finding the space to store every book that comes out, under the title. Mucho bueno.

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kelvin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:43:24 -0700

Bad Signal. I miss it.

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Gimbal — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:28:07 -0700

Erm, pardon, my mistake - it was actually the Clockworks web comic, which offered the link that I followed into FA.

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jimh92 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:25:06 -0700

Googled Ellis for his biblo, wandered here. Been here for two days, reading @ work. Love it.

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Tasdo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:28:26 -0700

I enjoy Ellis' other works and kept reading about Freakangels. Kept forgetting about it when I went online, until someone mentioned it in another forum

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

Greasemonkey — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:08:59 -0700

I used to post on the WEF way back when, went looking for Warren online in 2008 and found Whitechapel.

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

HalJones — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:25:07 -0700

I was on Dimestore Productions when someone asked about favorite online comics. Freakangels kept popping up in the top spot so I googled it and here we are. Been following over a year.

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

Nebula — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:46:25 -0700

I love Warren Ellis's Writtings!!!!!! so of course I picked up Freak Angels! Warren Ellis is a GOD!!!!!

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Genkkaku — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:44:03 -0700

Looking at Steampunk related bodies of work through Wikipedia

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staticgirl — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:39:45 -0700

It seems to me there are unusually varied routes to Freak Angels compared with most titles....

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chobbers678 — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:34:22 -0800

I was reading Order Of The Stick by Rich Burlew, and in the News section, he mentioned that a certain webcomic called FreakAngels had beaten OOTS to 1st place in some competition of some sort. So I checked it out, and now FA is my new favorite webcomic. :))

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Clarkthehomonculus — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:24:24 -0800

I was looking for some of Warren's work a few years back and have been addicted since 2008.

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IG — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:23:47 -0800

I was getting back into comics after about eight or nine years.
Or it would be more accurate to say that I got into comics that aren't horrible canonuity messes that make you beg for mercy. And I heard some people drop the name FreakAngels and it's apparently free.

By now the only online comic that comes close to how much I love FreakAngels is Gunnerkrigg Court and I own all four books released so far, one of them twice. Once in English once in my horrible mother tongue, German. I didn't even know the comic got a translation so I was surprised to find it in a train station bookstore next to Spiderman, Batman the X-Men and several other man-things. The translation isn't too atrocious, but everyone who's capable of understanding ze Englisch should read it in ze Englisch.

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Joshua Pantalleresco — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:00:02 -0800

By and Large I've always been a Warren Ellis fan. I found out he was going to be doing this and have been surprised. Easily one of the best books produced in comics and right with Fell, Planetary and Transmet as my favorite things Warren has done.

JP

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Turnabout — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:16:18 -0800

I have liked Warren Ellis for a while, but I didn't hear of Freakangels until I read a bulletin by Rob Burlew lamenting Freakangel's Eagle Award win. I clicked on the hotlink provided and... yeah.

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KPatrickGlover — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:07:30 -0800

I have always been here. Haven't I?

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

Truly320 — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:34:10 -0800

My son put me on to Ellis. He's a fan, and found Freakangles...thought I'd be interested....He was right. I read 80 or 90 episodes in a row, and then went through withdrawal when I had to wait a week for the next installment.

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CreativeImbalances — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:46:57 -0800

Discovered Ellis on Twitter, bought "Shivering Sands" from Lulu.com, loved it, went to blog. From there I found Freakangels, which drew me in with its premise and gritty style. If it weren't for Ellis, I would still be skeptical about graphic novels. Now I'm revisiting the genre to see what I've been missing.

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PeteFord — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:26:04 -0800

Read Transmetropolitan, Planetary and the Authority years ago, so follow the man on Twitter. Ended up in this forum, only realising what it was a forum for after a few posts. Reading the whole thing now. I like.

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Neila — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:01:52 -0800

I had been watching Paul on Deviantart and found out from there. XD I had no idea who Ellis was at the time. :o I felt rather slow and uncultured for not knowing and tried to read on more comics and writers after that.

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dalliance — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:29:27 -0800

After discovered we were the only 2 graphic novel comic book geeks at a party with male strippers, my friend's brother kindly alerted me to this amazing webcomic. I'm supposed to be writing a grant proposal to save lions in Kenya. But after starting on Freakangels, that will have to take a backseat for now.

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mamo86 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:12:57 -0700

I was Looking for webcomic...and I totally falled in love with it...

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

nikoboivin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:06:56 -0700

I must say that I'm a little ashamed...

My gf showed me the first volume at our local comic store in Quebec, Canada. I looked at it and said "nah, doesn't seem that good". A few days later I decided to search for it on google, looking for a review, and found the site. Got up to date in two days... My girlfriend is now reminding me every week when I go to read my 6 pages that "it doesn't seem that good"...

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Azabith — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:45:46 -0700

Bad Signal brought me here and i'm stuck ever since

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JettBlackBerryX — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:28:24 -0700

Read a 'Tradewaiting' article on it @ site http://www.weeklycrisis.com/ Brought me here last night and I can't fooking leave.

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eyliena — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:52:08 -0700

I don't even remember how I got here. Followed a link somewhere, got hooked, and forgot everything else. Lol. Sped through it all in four days - didn't do a lot of actual working at work.

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Andrew_H — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:03:36 -0700

a journalist pal of mine tweeted me a link saying I'd like it. She was bang on.

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

katrina — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:57:55 -0700

Found it through the Wikipedia page on "The Midwich Cuckoos."

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eDave — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:22:07 -0700

storming review on comic book club, offuv youtube. it's a very funny comics review type show with three amusing guys on it, er reviewing comics. i dont watch any more because of the huge world wide recession screwing with my available funds and I started to feel like the little matchgirl.

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draxxx — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:27:23 -0700

It began w/ Warren bitching and moaning on his main site one morning in 2009, because Whitechapel was bitching and moaning about the full frontal of someone's junk. "What the heck could everyone be bitching and moaning about? It can't just be about a picture of dick." Indeed, it was about much, much more, and thereafter my Friday mornings belonged to Warren and Paul and Ariana.

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Foamhead — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:29:56 -0700

I was lurking & reading here in Whitechapel for a while before I first discovered FA. And here I am, less lurky, still reading in Whitechapel now FA's ended.

FA is one of those things I wish I could expunge the memory of just so I can re-experience how it felt reading it for the first time.

sigh

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hippenmoor — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:23:34 -0700

Wil Wheaton mentioned it on his blog on 6/6/08. I followed the link here and never left.

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wottabout — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:25:11 -0700

TV Tropes, same place where I stumble across everything.

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

online_rebel — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:52:14 -0700

just love the writing style and general topics Warren covers so this was on my must read list

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Illusionator — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:00:48 -0700

Work colleague put me on to it...for which i will be eternally grateful

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flecky — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:07:55 -0700

I was at second hand comic store in West London,speeding like fuck wading through the 50p bargain basement like the demented addict i am.I found a few blinders and took a massive pile of good-shit to the counter.A cool guy saw some of them and said, "Ahh, you like Warren Ellis,yes? You should check out www.freakangels.com."He was beaming and all-a-smiling. What a nice geezer!I think he got the sack from the shop for being human or something...bastards!

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cjkoger — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:56:34 -0700

I knew Ellis from a bit of his previous work. I was cruising the new releases table in my local shop and picked up the first trade the week it came out. Asked the guy working and he told me about the series, and told me I could check it out online if I wanted. I am pretty sure after I found the site I read everything that had been posted until that point in one sitting. That was a good day. Been around pretty much every friday since, and spent many and hour in between reading, laughing, lurking, and very occasionally posting on Whitechapel.

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mollytherealdeal — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:03:30 -0700

I saw one page posted on the Peak Oil website, The Oil Drum.

How did you Stumble across Freak angels?

dnewling — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:24:22 -0700

I stumbled across Whitechapel when I was doing a google search for "Misty Comic The Sentinels" and found the remake/remodel challenge for Misty covers. My only regret is that I didn't stumble across it in time to put in an entry.

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tibo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:35:01 -0700

I was doing a random trade paperback search on Ebay and came across the first 3 signed hardcovers for super cheap. Also remembered some reviews on older episodes of CGS and AC podcasts. Figured it would just be a quick read and resell, but I was engaged by the end of the first volume and hooked by the second. The unique personalities of the characters perfectly balance each other other. I also sense some anime influences as well? I'm looking forward to catching up on the storyline and perusing the boards.

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patient_x — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:19:15 -0700

A very cool lady gave me this outrageous quote about stabbing and brain damage and god and it was attributed to Warren, so I visited his LJ to see what was up and it seemed intriguing. Freakangels began a few months after that which seemed like a pleasant surprise, though quite confusing. I was most pleased there were other lonely psychos out there in winter 2007-08 trying to survive the holidays somehow. I liked that someone around here had a healthy sense of what to do with all the internet shut-in behavior. Later on of course while he was borrowing my work I described the process incorrectly in a letter and got him very mad at me, leading him to commit a series of felonies which still seem pretty baffling. For the most part though it seems like others committed the actual violence while he was stationary by a computer. I'm assuming. He's a great writer, with a gift for kindness sometimes, who probably owes me a laptop and a few years of my life back. A lot of time it was no fun being a Julian Assange type getting monstered by a secret society stooge. You can think of it like George Clinton though, who was constantly sampled and never paid for it, eventually helping huge movements get started. And they're trying to nail Murdoch on the hacking and wiretapping and so forth, what does that mean about this place?

Thanks for all the help with the homicidal internet stalkery btw, it was really great getting no cooperation at all when all those people started dropping dead. We used to say "comic book violence" as a way of writing off innocent ideation. When someone is sounding mean you could always say it was just "comic book violence", now that explosions constantly rock the Earth and life as we know it has been changed permanently, I think, well, at least he was help surviving that horrible winter.

And also, I think that very cool lady poisoned my tomato juice but I still think she's great. :)

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D,Extremist — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:14:03 -0800

Honestly I was visiting the grave Of john Wyndham to plant a triffid. When this hand holding a mobile phone with web browser suddenly shot up out of the ground whoosh like a friggin lady of the lake but in compacted grave dirt so it was more like rumble then a whoosh. and I'm all like "hope you haven't had that on all the time in there roaming charges will give you a coronary mate"

But it had the Freak angels website already loaded on screen which is nice as some phones take ages to load if you just have the site up on Google so i pried zombie Wyndham fingers off breaking a couple clean off the knuckled accidentally of course which i put in my pocket to sell on Ebay for later

then went home inspired & rip /i mean bought it off amazon!

nice!

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ErikCJones — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:19:35 -0800

One of my best friends, Courtney(random_entity) and I were drinking at his house, and he showed me one of the old threads with awful pictures. After finding out that they were from a board for a Warren Ellis comic, I was in.

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Davie — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:07:20 -0800

Browsing my local library as usual, checking under Graphic Novels/E as usual, just in case there was something by Mr. Ellis I hadn't read yet, and there was! Then I found out it was a webcomic, and rejoiced.