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Ellis and Duffield's FreakAngels
DouglasDanger
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FreakAngels started today. It is one of Warren Ellis's new projects. It is a webcomic with art by newcomer Paul Duffield, who seems to combine European and Japanese elements, creating a very unique style. Check it out!
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Either way, ellis seems to have waaay too much going on to be able to hold any consistent release schedule. I mean he has 3 avatar titles, with and impeding 4th one. Planetary is still technically in the works, as is Desolation Jones (even though its on hiatus). There is another Apparat novel in the works, and then there is Thunderbolts and new-universal for Marvel, another secret project for them. And then there is Fell.
And thats besides the Castlevania movie script, and a TCM show he is developing.
No wonder there is so much shuffling.
But I cant complain about having more Warren Ellis. Even though that means some shit gets the axe.
Hell, the creators are even being paid for it. It should be an interesting experiment, anyway.
I don't care what he likes doing more. He's a grown man. He has a job that he is being paid to do. If i'm late or don't bother doing my job on Friday because I want to take a long weekend or go paint the fence or work at my other job, I get fired.
Ellis should be doing Planetary or Thunderbolts or the couple other books he's got on the go but is consistently late with. Not off starting a new one. I could care less if it's creator owned or original or superhero, either be a professional and quit the current ones or hold off on new ones until you're finished the current stuff.
Marvel and his other publishers are just as bad for letting him, and numerous other creators, get away with all the shit they do. I can understand delays if it's the only thing you are working on or if there's only one book out of the half a dozne your working on, but when every single book you write is late or indefinitely delayed because you feel like going off and starting something else, there's somethign wrong.
the dude is juggling books like a motherfucker, and quite frankly I like his creator owned stuff more
I understand your complaint here. Believe me, I want Jones and Fell back to being consistent badly.
but I also am enjoying all this avatar work, and the only times that has been delayed is because of publishing errors
Except he's also being paid to do this job too. By Avatar Press. One of the publishers you are saying is just "letting him get away with shit".
So it's not like he is just a kid off playing with a new toy when he should be at work, he is actually undertaking a professional project with the support of a publisher. I know what you're saying about taking on too much and falling behind, but get your facts right before you start ranting about unprofessional conduct and avoiding jobs he is being paid to do in favor of pet projects.
if he can't turn in scripts on time, he shouldn't work on monthy books, and that's just the hard truth. change the schedule, if you have to! say it's bimonthly. say it's quarterly. whatever needs to happen, but deadlines matter.
So about FreakAngels... I really liked it. The art is really neat and the premise is very interesting.
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To me character depth doesn't require substance abuse and dressing like an idiot.
man what the fuck. i've been sitting here like a chump waiting for the last trade for a year for one issue?
I like the art. Very Josh Middleton-ish. As for her dress and demeanor, Ellis' hard-on for Suicide Girls is well documented. But with a scant handful of pages to go on for now, I'm not passing any judgments on the character or story yet.
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Yeah, Ellis enjoys a weird aesthetic... punk/body-mod/goth stuff shows up a lot on his page. "grinders"
Edit: :^: Fencingsax.
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I think Fell is sort of waiting on both of them at this point. Still, Fell's nature means it's not like we're left hanging in the middle of a story arc or whatever.
And Planetary is more of less finished now anyway; the main story was wrapped up in the last issue and the next is just going to be an epilogue of sorts.
My problem is "the writing is Ellis". Not, "the writing is good", it's "Ellis"
It reads like everything else of his I've read. Which, granted, isn't too much, but still.
That doesn't mean I don't want my giant, leather-bound tomb of pure awesome edition. And that won't come out until its done.
Also, when a book is late it is not always because the writer couldn't meet deadline. There are of course, other factors.
In Re: Warren Ellis's workload, while I do think it sucks that he continues to stretch himself too thin with too many projects, which causes or contributes to delays across the board, what can anyone do about it? Put a gun to his head and force him to finish Planetary? Chain him to his desk until he finishes another 6 issues of Thunderbolts? No publisher in his/her right mind is going to turn down his work, even when it's late...and sometimes half-baked. The price to pay for his particular brand of genius, I guess.
John Cassady, on the other hand...