Archive for the ‘Warren Ellis’ Category
Warren Ellis’ Black Summer series has been optioned by Vigilante Entertainment to be turned into a motion picture. Ryne Pearson has been hired to write the adaptation about a group of superheroes who modify their own bodies to take back their city from a corrupt police force.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew are taking on Transmetropolitan Volume 1 from Vertigo Comics.
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In this first volume, Spider ventures into the dangerous Angels 8 district, home of the Transients — humans who have decided to become aliens through cosmetic surgery. But Spider’s interview with the Transients’ leader gets him a scoop he didn’t bargain for. And don’t miss Spider’s first confrontation with the President of the United States . . . in a men’s room.
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Once upon a time, 12 children where born at the same time to different families. They all had pale skin, lavender eyes, and mental powers above and beyond those of the normal man. As they grew up, they learned that they could do all sorts of interesting things with their powers, and they began to see the world differently.
One day, they decided to change the world, and in the process, nearly destroyed it. This is what happened next.
That is about the best introduction that I can think of for FREAKANGELS, the popular webcomic from Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield.
Or – “How Much Do You Want To Be A Super-Human?”
Many years ago, I managed to track down a leather-bound copy of a book entitled “The Encyclopedia of Super-Heroes.” It listed, in ridiculous detail, as many of the superheroes created between 1938 and 1984 or so as the writer could possibly document, from Superman and Batman down to one-shot wonders like Butterfly and Hell-Rider, to advertising characters like Bud-Man. Since then, I’ve often wondered how difficult it would be to update that volume, since the 90’s comic boom created thousands of guys whose names are synonyms for “fight,” and gave us easily as many new heroes as were in the entire original book. But another question floated to the front of my mind while reading these issues.  If you had the opportunity, and you really wanted to be in that book, to have powers and costume and the whole schmear, REALLY wanted it…  What price would you be willing to pay to be Superman?
Press Release
December 17th, 2008 – Ghosts. The cities of the future have grown ankle-deep in them as they graze off the electromagnetic waste of a billion wireless Internet connections. Most can only drift, witless and lost. Rarely, though, something comes through with enough marbles to cause real trouble.
And that’s where Alice Hotwire, Detective Exorcist, comes in.
Warren Ellis, Alan Davis, and Adi Granov have teamed up for Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes, as two-part tie-in to Warren Ellis’ Astonishing X-Men arc. Marvel Comics has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of the first issue that arrives October 15, 2008.
Red, the three-issue Warren Ellis graphic novel, is set to make its way to the big screen, thanks to a deal by Summit Entertainment.
The three-issue comic series, published in 2003, told the story of a former black-ops CIA agent now living a quiet life in retirement until the day a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised and his love interest in danger, the man must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them. The book was written by Warren Ellis, whose comic “Ocean” is set up at Warner Bros., and illustrated by Cully Hamner.
The Hollywood Reporter says it took nearly two years for Summit to get the rights from DC/Wildstorm, even though DC will have some hand in the project.
I’d like to think everyone in the world is reading our little site, but it still amazes me when comic creators big and small stop by Major Spoilers to say “Hi”.
Warren Ellis didn’t really stop by to say hello, but Warren Ellis.com did link to Major Spoilers earlier today after we posted the sneak peek to his upcoming newuniversal: shockfront #1 title appearing in your LCS this May from Marvel Comics.
Thanks Warren Ellis, from WarrenEllis.com, your link love is appreciated on a slow Friday afternoon.
And if you ever get the urge to appear on our Major Spoilers Podcast, you are always a welcome guest.
The Hollywood Gang lead by Gianni Nunnari and Nick Wechsler have optioned the rights to Warren Ellis’s graphic novel Ocean.
Story concerns the thousands of coffins containing angel-like bodies, and a giant weapon of mass destruction, discovered by a scientist on Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa. A U.N. weapons inspector sent to investigate uncovers a chilling secret about the history of humanity.
Nunnari, who also produced 300, and Wechsler, who is also producing Ronin, will produce the film. No word on a potential release date.
Addicted to newuniversal yet? This summer sees the release of newuniversal: Everything Went White Premiere HC, but when will we see a new issues?
Marvel has announced the next installment of the Warren Ellis fav will rock the shops and stands in 2008.
Like your favorite television dramas, the creative team behind this hit comic book series is taking some time off to return even bigger and bolder than before, with two factions fighting for control of Earth’s superhuman population.
In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at the newuniversal: Everything Went White Premire HC.
Image Comics has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek at the trade paperback of Warren Ellis’s crime drama Fell. The trade will collect issues #1-8 and be on store shelves April 14.
Marvel Comics has sent us a six page preview of Warren Ellis’ and Salvador Larroca’s newuniversal #2. There aren’t any dialogue ballons in this preview, but the artwork is stunning.
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