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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Friday For Freakangels

It’s kind of weird, I woke up expecting an interlude for Freakangels and that was exactly what I got. A chance to read back through stuff and re-cap. It’s such an easy read, and who can begrudge Ellis and Duffield a breather when they are turning out work of this quality?
The interludes are possessed of [...]

Comicsphere: Friday For Freakangels

Today the main thing I think I noticed aside from the main thrust of the story was that the sky had darkened. Today was packed full of siblings acting like siblings — freakangels fighting in the way fox cubs fight.
When KK is present the action ramps up, Connor is a calming influence, Alice makes things [...]

Comicsphere: Freakangels For Friday

It’s strange the last two weeks have seemed somewhat more leisurely in their pacing though just as much is revealed. We learn something of how being a Freakangel plays out through someone’s ethnicity — it was hinted at before in Caz’s features but is explained this week. Alice is both a catalyst and the reader’s [...]

Take Art: Ziga Sparovec

To complete the trilogy of talented artists from Whitechapel that I wanted to draw people’s attention to comes Zira Sparovec. I have had the pleasure, as have the other members of Warren Ellis’s extended online community, to see some of the process involved in creating these two particular pieces. they are the tip of the [...]