Comments on: Start Reading Comics Part #1: Warren Ellis, Professional Cynic

By: Lauren Z

Lauren Z — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:41:37 +0000

yes!! fellow gals making comics!! care to share any of your work? I have a webcomic if anyone wants to give a read, at http://rachaelandpenny.com it’s about a rockstar and her manager, and the manager maaaay have a bit of a crush.

also, i second the motion of a comic book club, or maybe even meeting at a con! or perhaps even an autostraddle table one day. that’d be aces.

By: Karina Nerdlie

Karina Nerdlie — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:02:37 +0000

I love Warren Ellis!
I’ve only read Astonishing X-Men, Transmet, and Next Wave by him.
To be honest, I do prefer Joss Whedon’s run on Astonishing before Warren took over. But I’m a sucker for Kitty Pryde and Whedon blew me away with how funny he can make the X-Men. (Wolverine as a coward, LOVVVEEE).

By: B.

B. — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:43:48 +0000

I’ve been reading Freakangels since it started and it is quite good. Paul Duffield’s art is lovely and there is a very vibrant online community (Whitechappel) discussing each installment. Ellis signed my Transmetropolitan a few years back at Windy City Con. I was in nerd biss hearing him speak and meeting one of my favorites.

Yeah, Freakangels is totally worth checking out, imo.

By: s.w

s.w — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:13:04 +0000

RENEE FUCK YEAH

Though my girlfriend reads three of the things in the article so relevance indeed

By: melerwin

melerwin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:02:31 +0000

Fuck, me neither on the female front, which is horrible.

I’m going to say Ellis is a liiiiittle bit more wordy than Whedon was, or maybe it’s the tone. I’m mostly over it, now, just in the beginning of the run. I also sort of agree with you that Simone’s art initially destracted, but again, I got used to it.

It was actually on Astonishing’s predecessor of just X-Men that got me into Morrison. I’m a tad disappointed in how that run ended, but the meat of his work there I thought was mostly tits. He made me really like Emma Frost, now she’s a fave.

And, uh, what about Y:the Last Man?
I mean, that was a lesbian/bi themed book by default.

By: kimbit

kimbit — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:01:59 +0000

LOVE Grant Morrison! Arkham Asylum is the first graphic novel I read, I think. It’s what started this whole comic-nerd-ball rolling for me!
It’s entirely possible that I don’t notice the wordiness of Ellis’ X-Men due to being used to reading Whedon’s X-Men, which is pretty really wordy, which I love.
More girl comic book writers! I am a fan of a few, but not nearly enough. Julie Doucet? Sara Varon? It’s sad that I can’t remember more names than that off the top of my head!

By: kimbit

kimbit — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:18:45 +0000

so so true! Judging by how they have done with the show so far, I have complete faith in the coming season. October though, OCTOBER.

By: kimbit

kimbit — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:16:22 +0000

this!

By: melerwin

melerwin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:49:05 +0000

They’ve done well so far with the brutality on the show. What’s criminally brutal is that we have to fucking wait until October for the next season to start.

By: melerwin

melerwin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:47:51 +0000

I would be alllll about an Autostraddle comic book club!

You mention girl characters in comics, you mention girls working in comic book stores, but what about girls who work MAKING comics?! (like me! Come see me at a convention! It’ll be cool and I have a lot of v-necks!)

Not the hugest fan of Ellis with Astonishng. I’m still reading it but especially at first, he made the characters a little bit tooooo wordy.

Planetary was the snizz.

Fans of Warren Ellis should probably check out Grant Morrison, too.

By: sascha

sascha — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:14:45 +0000

A Preacher film would be epic if done right. I also love the boys. Was never one for super heroes but The Boys is a world with super heroes that makes sense to me.

I’m still concerned about how the Walking Dead TV Series will turn out. I’m liking it so far but there is some brutal stuff in that comic that I’m not sure they will be able to put on TV.

By: Raksha

Raksha — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:11:51 +0000

Oops. Here’s a much better (read: funnier) video for that theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jntc5MesSys&feature=related