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'Trees' #1 Comic Book Review
'Trees' #1 Comic Book Review
'Trees' #1 Comic Book Review
Alien invasion stories have always been fertile ground for allegory. Throughout the history of the sub-genre, spaceships filled with arachnid creatures, little green men, shape-shifting Skrulls, omnipotent super-beings, and brain-eating slugs have come to represent oppressive and militaristic governments, Communism, the disenfranchised, and several more variations of the great and unknowable Other, usually influenced by politics or social issues. Yet with all the metaphoric territory the alien invasions have covered, in Image Comics' Trees, Warren Ellis and Jason Howard prove there's still plenty left unsaid.
War Rocket Ajax: Moon Knight, Futures End, Rat Queens
War Rocket Ajax: Moon Knight, Futures End, Rat Queens
War Rocket Ajax: Moon Knight, Futures End, Rat Queens
This week, Chris and Matt are talking at length about Futures End #1 by Brian Azzarello, Keith Giffen, Dan Jurgens, Jeff Lemire and Patrick Zircher, which continues the killing trend set off by the Free Comic Book Day #0 issue. Then they talk about Rat Queens #6 by Kurtis Wiebe and Roc Upchurch and Moon Knight #3 by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire!
Image Reveals Supreme Blue Rose By Warren Ellis & Tula Lotay
Image Reveals Supreme Blue Rose By Warren Ellis & Tula Lotay
Image Reveals Supreme Blue Rose By Warren Ellis & Tula Lotay
Supreme, the Extreme Studios/Image Comics/Awesome Comics character created by Rob Liefeld and for whom Alan Moore wrote a highly regarded run in the mid-1990s, is coming back, though it's a little hard to say whether the character will look all that familiar to fans. Image Comics released a rather cryptic press release for Supreme: Blue Rose, a new series by Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay, in which
Dynamite Signs Warren Ellis To Relaunch Its Superhero Comics
Dynamite Signs Warren Ellis To Relaunch Its Superhero Comics
Dynamite Signs Warren Ellis To Relaunch Its Superhero Comics
Warren Ellis will be doing his first work for Dynamite Entertainment by the end of 2014, just in time for the publisher's 10th anniversary. The gig? Ellis will be taking over Dynamite's entire Project Superpowers universe, which includes The American Spirit, The Black Terror, Daredevil (the Golden Age non-Marvel guy with the spikes on his belt), Green Lama and many other Fox Comics/Crestwood Publi
Finding Identity in Ellis & Shalvey's 'Moon Knight' #1
Finding Identity in Ellis & Shalvey's 'Moon Knight' #1
Finding Identity in Ellis & Shalvey's 'Moon Knight' #1
Moon Knight is an oddball in a comics universe peppered with oddballs. A former mercenary brought back from the dead by an Egyptian god to serve as his "fist" of retribution, MK's origin offers a peculiar mix of brutality, insanity, and fantasy. Those elements have been fundamental to Moon Knight since he first appeared in Werewolf by Night in 1975, created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin.
Trees: Warren Ellis and Jason Howard's New Book for Image
Trees: Warren Ellis and Jason Howard's New Book for Image
Trees: Warren Ellis and Jason Howard's New Book for Image
Teased on Tuesday and confirmed early Wednesday morning, Trees is a new comic book miniseries written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Jason Howard. Described by Ellis (Planetary, FreakAngels, the forthcoming Moon Knight)  as a science fiction comics serial that will be released in print, the first issue goes on sale in May from Image Comics...
Marvel To Relaunch 'Moon Knight' With Warren Ellis
Marvel To Relaunch 'Moon Knight' With Warren Ellis
Marvel To Relaunch 'Moon Knight' With Warren Ellis
Created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, Moon Knight is essentially Marvel's answer to the question "What if Batman were somehow even more psychologically damaged?" That's not a bad premise, frankly, and the character has had some highly regarded writers and artists telling his stories over the years: Moench, Perlin, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chuck Dixon, J.M. DeMatteis, Kevin Nowlan, Brian Micha
Kelly Sue DeConnick & Warren Ellis To Co-Write 'Avengers Assemble'
Kelly Sue DeConnick & Warren Ellis To Co-Write 'Avengers Assemble'
Kelly Sue DeConnick & Warren Ellis To Co-Write 'Avengers Assemble'
So this is cool. Bestselling Gun Machine novelist and acclaimed comic book writer Warren Ellis is making a return to monthly cape comics for the first time since he concluded his Secret Avengers run last year, and it's as Kelly Sue DeConnick's co-writer for a special Avengers Assemble arc tying in to Marvel's next crossover event, Inhuamnity.
Iron Man 3: Rebecca Hall Talks Maya Hansen, Extremis And Writing Real Women [Interview]
Iron Man 3: Rebecca Hall Talks Maya Hansen, Extremis And Writing Real Women [Interview]
Iron Man 3: Rebecca Hall Talks Maya Hansen, Extremis And Writing Real Women [Interview]
The brilliant scientist Maya Hansen was first introduced in 2005, in the pages of Iron Man: Extremis by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov. In that landmark story, Hansen co-created the titular biotechnology that could change humanity forever, granting its users accelerated healing, enhanced speed and intelligence, and impossible strength...
Warren Ellis & Mike McKone’s ‘Avengers’ Graphic Novel Signals Sea Change for Marvel’s Book Trade Biz
Warren Ellis & Mike McKone’s ‘Avengers’ Graphic Novel Signals Sea Change for Marvel’s Book Trade Biz
Warren Ellis & Mike McKone’s ‘Avengers’ Graphic Novel Signals Sea Change for Marvel’s Book Trade Biz
In a somewhat surprising but certainly welcome move from the once resolutely periodical-based Marvel Comics, the House of Ideas has announced plans for a new line of original graphic novels presented in an oversized format with what the publisher describes as "sophisticated packaging and design...

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