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Best Ellis
Thunderbolts 14%  14%  [ 1 ]
Doktor Sleepless 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Black Summer 42%  42%  [ 3 ]
Fell 42%  42%  [ 3 ]
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Monk
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:08 am 
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What's Warren Ellis' best current book?

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John V
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:03 am 
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Black Summer for me...great action and a cool political spin on super heroes.
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Hanzo the Razor
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:29 am 
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Planetary. The finale WILL come out...someday...

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Rob Steinbrenner
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Thunderbolts.

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Rawburn
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I voted for Black Summer... but Nextwave was all kinds of fun.

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Monk
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
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Fell needs to come out more often, but it's my all-time favorite Ellis book, finally overtaking Transmetropolitan.

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Mark
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:41 pm 
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I haven't read any of those.

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Frank L. Sisko
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The one some schmuck I know recommended to me.
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Monk
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
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:banana:

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Frank L. Sisko
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And there he is now.

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Bolgani Gogo
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I picked Fell because of the art. Doktor Sleepless is very good, though. I think Ellis is too cynical for a bright n' shiny genre like super-heroes, so I didn't bother with the other two.
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Bolgani Gogo
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Monk wrote:
Fell needs to come out more often, but it's my all-time favorite Ellis book, finally overtaking Transmetropolitan.


Wow... I've only read the first couple, but I have a bunch more waiting at home and on mail-order. Looks like I'm in for a treat.
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Monk
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
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You might want to check out Black Summer and, to a lesser extent, Thunderbolts. Neither is really Ellis attempting to do actual superheroes.

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Li'l Jay
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:58 pm 
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Doesn't he write Newuniversal, and what happened to that?

Or was that someone else?

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Monk
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Newuniversal is on a scheduled hiatus, I believe. And yeah, that's Ellis.

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Monk
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
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He's also got Desolation Jones going, which I forgot about. I know that book was having artist problems, and JH Williams was replaced, but I'm not sure where things are with the new artist.

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Li'l Jay
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I thought so. I would have checked myself, but I'm here in this chair.

I thought it was pretty good. Maybe I would like some of this other stuff.

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Monk
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Check out Planetary and Stormwatch/The Authority. If you liked Newuniversal, you should enjoy those.

Planetary vol. 1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1563896486?&camp=212361&creative=380793&linkCode=wsw&tag=imwan-20

Stormwatch (Ellis' first arc - I'd recommend starting here, but you could skip to the first Authority trade and be fine)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156389646X?&camp=212361&creative=380793&linkCode=wsw&tag=imwan-20

The Authority vol. 1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1563896613?&camp=212361&creative=380793&linkCode=wsw&tag=imwan-20

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Monk
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
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Or for something short and similar, his Extremis arc on Iron Man.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785122583?&camp=212361&creative=380793&linkCode=wsw&tag=imwan-20

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John V
 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:19 am 
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Newuniversal and Desolation Jones are on hiatus so they can get a bunch of issues in the can with new artists (both titles had artist problems/switches)...brilliant books..i highly recommend both of them.
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Li'l Jay
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I just finished the first trade of Planetary. Loved it. See AmazWAN thread where I ordered the next two trades.

I'm in for all of this one (and the forlorn looking to the future for a finish).

And I sense this will lead to me reading The Authority, perhaps.

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Kevin
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 Post subject: The Ellis Poll
PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:17 pm 
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The only Ellis works I've read have been Global Frequency and the "Extremis" story in Iron Man.
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