Comicsphere: Freakangels Friday Fury

Last week the gun was fired — this week the projectiles hit their target. You know what the first thought was that popped into my head? Too damned easy. And a full on frontal assault against a group like the Freakangels? I know the New Cross crew and Mudlarks are being sold as perhaps not [...]

Loom

Warren Ellis asks questions a lot — he wonders what shape the future might take sometimes: the future of science fiction; the future of the internet and its content. In answer to a piece called The Patchwork Years, which looked at the shift from curation sites to sites which produce original content, five of us [...]

Friday Freakangels Fun

Freakangels on full alert; well, most of them. I like that the gang are still maintaining their idiosyncratic paths in spite of the current threat to Whitechapel. Here we see the community working together; we see what the whole Freakangels set up is all about — or rather we are starting to see it. First [...]

comicsphere: freakangels friday

When the true crescendo comes in this first arc it is going to be interesting to see how the characters bring what we have seen of each of their personalities to bear on the situation. We saw how handy Jack was with a knife last week, we saw Sirkka and KK purge Alice, we saw [...]

Full On Freakangels Friday

So, we have seen the freakangels policing each other and now we get to see one go into action against someone who has attacked him. Duffield once again displays a real ability for capturing the kineticism of violence and not a single image strikes you as gratuitous — it is all lean, to the point, [...]

comicsphere: freakangels friday fun

In one place someone settles in and in another place someone is unsettled. Sometimes it is hard to remember that each episode is only six pages long. To do what he does with those six pages every week shows just how on game Ellis; shows how on game Duffield is as well. At his recent [...]

Ranthead: Originality Versus Similarity

As one man how different can each of your works be? If you are writing genre fiction, no matter what genre, aren’t the tropes of said genre going to effect the eventual product whether you are playing against the conventions or wholeheartedly embracing them? I think most people would accept that they go to a [...]

culture vulture: carmine magazine

Thankfully there are more and more entry points becoming available into different areas of the creative sphere — every single time you make one discovery there are a thousand more in attendance — all hyperlinked and convenient for you. To claim these days that you cannot find inspiration is a pretty lame thing to say. [...]

Comicsphere: Freakangels Friday Fun

Today was an important episode. It had that feeling. Alice has finally been installed as Kirk’s assistant on the watchtower and has been given some clue as to what she is looking for — though the sense that some information has been left out is palpable.
We have more images of KK flying which you get [...]

Comicsphere: Doktor Sleepless by Warren Ellis

I have been reading and re-reading this series, checking out the wiki, the talk threads to see whether or not this idea that keeps striking me has turned up anywhere and it hasn’t. Why hasn’t it occured to someone else? Perhaps I missed it or perhaps the idea is totally offbase.
I think Doktor Sleepless might [...]