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[geekchick]

Damn, if I'd known about the Sunday panel, I might've actually gone to Dragon*Con. ;)

Saturday September 4:
[...]
4.00pm: Warren Ellis on Warren Ellis, apparently (Regency V). I don't think this means I'm performing sex acts with a clone or anything. Though, by this stage, I will likely be delirious from sleep deprivation, so anything's possible.
Sunday September 5:
1.00pm: An Hour with Warren Ellis (Manila/Singapore). This is where I perform sex acts on everybody else. Yes.
[...]

(Contextectomized schedule fragment from mistersleepless.)

Comments

[winterbadger]

Dragga-what? I'm sorry, my mind just wandered. It's that icon, you know. It just makes a chap's mind... um, what was I saying?

[qe2.livejournal.com]

Just recently discovered Warren Ellis via a review of Global Frequency, and am now waiting for more issues in that series. Most cool. What work of his is your favorite?

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

The series actually ended at 12 issues. They should be collected in trades sometime soon, though. Also, it's going to be made into a TV series.

Other prime Warren Ellis: Planetary - Easily one of the best comic books of the past ten years. His brief run of Hellblazer (which you'll only be able to get in back issues) was also fabulous. If you're not a comic book person, I'd definitely recommend getting the trades of GF, Planetary and Transmetropolitan (a fifty issue series that has been completely collected in about eight volumes). I've read just about everything he's done, and those are easily the best. After a while, his main character (and he really does have just the one) starts to get old.

excellent.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

The first six issues of Global Frequency appear already to have been collected into a QP, a used copy of which I'm happily awaiting. The second six will be forthcoming in QP this fall, but as I bought three of those used when I first got interested in the series (they were all the place I went had), I'm just gonna try to track the other three down used.

I'll check for Planetary and Transmetropolitan as well. I'm not a comics purist, so I don't need mint copies, which makes the used-comics trade my friend.

Hellblazer...isn't that the series about John Constantine? Ellis wasn't the original writer on that, was he? Just read something saying Warner Brothers has a film version in the can, entitled Constantine and featuring...Keanu Reeves. As a blond Englishman. The publicity still I saw looked like Neo had forgotten to cut his hair. Depressing.

Re: excellent.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

Yeah, everyone I know who actually liked the comic is planning to avoid the movie. In fact, I think everyone in general will probably skip it. Sad, because it had such potential.

The original writer was actually Jamie Delano (although Alan Grant created the character). Those issues are collected in trade, as well, if you're interested in the character. . . (I'm big on trade paperbacks.)

Re: excellent.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

Sad, because it had such potential.

Exactly my thought. I have a couple of Hellblazer graphic novels, which I generally reread by peeking between my fingers a la classic wimpy horror-movie technique (tough to turn the pages, but I manage), primarily because I think Constantine is an incredible character and I want to see what he's about even if I have to put up with other people's entrails and a lot of slimy teethy demonesque things to do it. I don't mind Keanu Reeves, exactly - and I do enjoy looking at him - but he's just. so. WRONG for Constantine that I can hardly bear to contemplate the movie. One colossally suckass comics adaptation a decade is enough for me, thanks, and I already subjected myself to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (An unaddicted Quartermaine? A passive, second-class-citizen Mina? Tom fuckin' Sawyer? What the hell?).

I'm curious: what else do you like to read, whether in graphic-novel-land or elsewhere? (If you'd like to take this off the most patient geekchick's LJ, you can reach me at queue at artsitedesign dot com.)

Re: excellent.

[geekchick]

Oh, don't feel like you need to take this elsewhere just because of me, I'm enjoying reading the conversation. =) I meant to chime in earlier that I'm a "Transmetropolitan" fan, although I confess to not having read it all because I keep getting distracted by newer and shinier things.

That reminds me, in a roundabout sort of way (Constantine), have you picked up Books of Magick: Life During Wartime? The first two are out and I snagged them but haven't had a chance to really read them yet.

Re: excellent.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'm not trying to hog the good conversations here, so from my perspective you're more than welcome. Magnanimous of me, don't you think, consider that it's, well, your LJ and all?

::shuffles feet in some embarrassment::

That reminds me, in a roundabout sort of way (Constantine), have you picked up Books of Magick: Life During Wartime? The first two are out and I snagged them but haven't had a chance to really read them yet.

Ooh. No. I have most of the rest of that series - I've been buying them as they came out in graphic-novel format - but didn't realize that they'd begun a new story arc. Nor did I know that Gaiman had gotten reinvolved. That strikes me as a Very Good Sign. Nifty.

Out of curiosity, how/where do you get your comics? I can't stand comic stores - I've never yet found one in which a woman walking in the door was treated as anything other than someone who'd apparently wandered in by mistake - and so am now venturing tentatively into the world of online comics hunting. Tips? Tricks? Warnings to stay the hell away?