84-599: DV8 is a comic book published by Wildstorm . The series revolves around the lives of a group of Gen-Active people (Called DV8, or referred to as "The Deviants"), initially living in New York City under the supervision of Ivana Baiul , who sends them on life-threatening black ops assignments. The series lasted 32 issues. The story including most DV8 members continued in the pages of Gen-Active , an anthology series featuring various Wildstorm characters. Gen-Active, lasted 6 issues. Writer Micah Ian Wright pitched
168-605: A back-up story in the Eye of the Storm titles. A new ongoing Authority series began the storyline of the Coup d'état crossover, which ran through Authority , Sleeper , Stormwatch: Team Achilles and Wildcats 3.0. Two Winter Special anthologies also came out. Most of the line, except Sleeper , were canceled two years after their introduction. In 2004 , WildStorm revamped its array of sub-imprints. The core titles were grouped into
252-405: A film based on The Authority was in development and would help form the basis of the new DCU . In November 2023, María Gabriela De Faría was cast to play The Engineer, a member of The Authority, in the forthcoming Superman film ahead of The Authority film. Warren Ellis Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an English comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He
336-513: A free long-form webcomic illustrated by Paul Duffield, and Ignition City , a five-issue miniseries. He also has five other current series with Avatar: Anna Mercury , No Hero , along with two long series Doktor Sleepless and Gravel . The first quarter of 2009 had the release of G.I. Joe: Resolute , a series of webisodes written by Warren Ellis and later released on DVD in December. He worked with D'Israeli again in 2010–2011 for
420-411: A half-dozen times over the last decade, and even this version now wasn't the easiest sell in the world. I like to think it speaks to the quality of my story that it convinced WildStorm to re-launch this book despite not having any previous plans to do so."-Brian Wood Some of the issues have been collected into a trade paperback : Wildstorm Wildstorm Productions (stylized as WildStorm )
504-487: A license for the lucrative Star Wars license, but lost to the incumbent Dark Horse Comics . Due to declining sales across the U.S. comics industry, and his view that his role as publisher and growing family demands interfered with his role as an artist, Lee left Image Comics and sold WildStorm to DC Comics in late 1998, enabling him to focus once again on art. The deal went into effect in January 1999. DC hailed
588-400: A line of creator-owned comic books which included such popular works as: J. Scott Campbell's Danger Girl , Joe Madureira's Battle Chasers , Humberto Ramos ' Crimson and Out There , Joe Kelly and Chris Bachalo 's Steampunk , Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco 's Arrowsmith , Busiek's Astro City and Warren Ellis 's Two-Step and Tokyo Storm Warning . 1997 also saw
672-508: A mediated dialogue with Ellis since August 2021 and that they were making progress in a guided transformative justice process. In February 2022, Ellis relaunched his newsletter, in which he linked to the SoManyofUs.com update and website. On January 19, 2023, SoManyOfUs.com once again updated the site, alleging that Ellis "took none of the steps we hoped he would", stating "we do not anticipate our involvement in any progress he might make in
756-435: A new imprint titled America's Best Comics as a showcase for Alan Moore . The line includes the titles Promethea , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , Tomorrow Stories , Tom Strong and Top 10 . The studio launched Eye of the Storm in 2001 as an experiment. By this time, WildStorm had become largely a "mature readers" imprint. Joe Casey continued writing Wildcats , retitling it Wildcats 3.0 to reflect
840-615: A new ongoing comics series featuring James Bond in November 2015, published by Dynamite Entertainment in partnership with Ian Fleming Publications and illustrated by Jason Masters. James Bond depicts the original character from the Ian Fleming novels, as opposed to the one in the films , but is set in present day. The first story arc, "Vargr", was followed in June 2016 with a second arc titled "Eidolon". Ellis stepped down from
924-508: A new series that reimagines the New Universe under the title newuniversal . The first issue was released on 6 December 2006. Ellis continued to work on several projects for different publishers, including Desolation Jones (for DC/Wildstorm) and Blackgas and Black Summer (for Avatar Press). Ellis also wrote an episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled "Dark Heart". Ellis's first prose novel, Crooked Little Vein ,
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#17327761818301008-495: A new six-issue comics miniseries with artist Phil Hester , published by AfterShock Comics. The series follows the survivor of a shipwreck trying to find out what happened after he washes up on another world. Though Ellis has left open the possibility of expanding the book past six issues, he said he is focused finishing the story as planned first. Despite rarely returning to his early work, in October 2016, DC Comics announced
1092-482: A new webcomic written by Ellis and illustrated by Colleen Doran , was announced in September 2016. Set to be published by Webtoon in 2017, the 26-issue weekly series follows a middle-aged female detective working a murder mystery. In 2020, anime streaming platform Crunchyroll announced that it was adapting the webcomic FreakAngels as one of the first Crunchyroll Originals anime TV series. In 2006, Ellis
1176-556: A new website, SoManyofUs.com, in July 2020 and contain accounts of "manipulation, gaslighting , coercion, and other forms of emotional abuse ". Ellis responded, writing that he had not considered that others would see him as having "a position of power and privilege", and that "I have hurt many people that I had no intention of hurting. I am culpable. I take responsibility for my mistakes. I will do better and for that, I apologize." DC Comics subsequently announced that, at Ellis's request,
1260-558: A one-off comic, SVK , to be published by BERG, a London consultancy firm. It uses a UV torch to reveal the thoughts of the characters in the story. In 2010, a documentary film on Ellis, Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts , was announced for 2011 completion. Its co-producer Sequart Organization also plans on publishing, in 2011, three books studying Ellis's work: on Planetary , Transmetropolitan and Ellis's overall career. Sequart has dubbed this push "The Year of Ellis." Ellis's second novel, hardboiled detective thriller Gun Machine ,
1344-529: A pilot for a TV series for the WB Network was made. The pilot never aired and was not picked up as a series, although the pilot was later leaked on the internet. Stormwatch was relaunched as Stormwatch: Team Achilles , about a team of normal soldiers who combat rogue superheroes. Robbie Morrison wrote a one-shot featuring the Authority characters, titled "Scorched Earth" (2003). It was serialized as
1428-797: A portmanteau of the titles of the Jim Lee comic series WildC.A.T.S. and Stormwatch . Its main fictional universe, the Wildstorm Universe , featured costumed heroes . Wildstorm maintained a number of its core titles from its early period, and continued to publish material expanding its core universe. Its main titles included WildC.A.T.S , Stormwatch , Gen , Wetworks , and The Authority ; it also produced single-character-oriented series like Deathblow and Midnighter , and published secondary titles like Welcome to Tranquility . Wildstorm also published creator-owned material, and licensed properties from other companies, covering
1512-716: A relaunch of the WildStorm publishing line as a new imprint curated by Ellis. Taking a similar approach to Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint, DC asked Ellis to write a main series, titled The Wild Storm , and curating others set in the same universe. The series begins a complete reboot of the WildStorm Universe, with Ellis saying his goal is for the imprint to be new reader-friendly. The Wild Storm debuted in February 2017 with art by John Davis-Hunt. In his newsletter Orbital Operations , Ellis stated that he has
1596-402: A relaunch to WildStorm in 2003, but it was not picked up by the publisher. The artist in the book would have been Mark Robinson. The title returned in June 2010 as an eight-issue limited series called DV8: Gods and Monsters , written by Brian Wood with art by Rebekah Isaacs . The project is something Wood had been trying to get commissioned for years: "I've pitched DV8 to WildStorm easily
1680-489: A revamp of all the Wildstorm Universe titles, including comic-books by writers such as: Alan Moore , Warren Ellis , Adam Warren , Sean Phillips , and Joe Casey . After this revamp the new Wildcats series, Stormwatch and DV8 took the places of the most popular and most commercially successful comics of the Wildstorm Universe. Wildstorm also made a presentation to Lucasfilm Ltd. in an attempt to obtain
1764-452: A screenplay. Ellis's novel Gun Machine has been set up as a television series first with writer Dario Scardapane at Fox in 2012, and later in 2014 at the now-defunct Xbox Entertainment , with a script by Brett Conrad. In 2016, it was announced that NBCUniversal had optioned the rights to Ellis and Jason Howard's Trees and would be developing it as a television series with Tom Hardy's production company. In 2013, Ellis spoke at
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#17327761818301848-539: A single WildStorm imprint, and discarding the "Universe" and "Signature Series" imprints. In 2007 , the WildStorm fictional universe became "Earth-50", part of the DC Comics Multiverse . In April 2008 , Ben Abernathy announced that the events of Wildstorm: Revelations , Wildstorm: Armageddon and Number of the Beast would segue into Wildstorm: World's End , a post-apocalyptic direction for
1932-421: A sub-imprint of Image. He explained: "During the startup of Image Comics, I incorporated my business activities under the name Aegis Entertainment. As Aegis grew and the marketplace changed, I decided a new name would more accurately define the nature of the titles we produce". In conjunction with the name change, former DC editor Bill Kaplan was brought in to oversee production and scheduling, in an effort to combat
2016-475: A temporary exclusive work for hire contract. Toward the end of 2004, Ellis released the " Apparat Singles Group ", which he described as "An imaginary line of comics singles. Four imaginary first issues of imaginary series from an imaginary line of comics, even". The Apparat titles were published by Avatar, but carried only the Apparat logo on their covers. In 2006, Ellis worked for DC on Jack Cross , which
2100-439: A two-page story written by him would not be included in an upcoming anthology. Ellis ended his long-running email newsletter, which he had published under various titles since 1995. In mid-July 2020, The Guardian reported "Ellis responded to these accounts with self-pity and what seemed to be genuine contrition. [...] Ellis insists that the problem was relationship trouble, 'not predatory behaviour', but concedes that '[t]here
2184-471: A two-year plan for the series. Three more WildStorm series are expected to follow. In 2017, Netflix launched a Castlevania animated television series adaptation, written and produced by Ellis. Ellis had been previously hired to write a screenplay for Castlevania: Dracula's Curse , an animated film based on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse . The first season of the Castlevania TV series
2268-680: A web-based "end-of-the-world" collaboration with director Joss Whedon , was postponed due to Whedon's work on The Avengers . Ellis and British producer Vivek Tiwary developed an adventure thriller television miniseries title Ascension , with Idris Elba in talks to star, though nothing has come of the project. Adaptations of Ellis's works have frequently been planned, to limited success. Ellis and Cully Hamner's miniseries, Red , has been loosely adapted as two films: Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013), written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and starring Bruce Willis , Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren . The sequel
2352-571: A wide variety of genres . Its creator-owned titles included Red Menace , A God Somewhere , and Ex Machina , while its licensed titles included Friday the 13th , A Nightmare on Elm Street , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , StarCraft , the Dante's Inferno game, The X-Files , and the God of War video game series. DC shut down the Wildstorm imprint in December 2010. In September 2011,
2436-417: A year later. Since 2013, Ellis has been writing the weekly email newsletter Orbital Operations , which features work updates and thoughts on books, comics and current events. As of late 2015, Orbital Operations had 13,000 subscribers. In 2007, Ellis launched the now-defunct message board Whitechapel as a companion to his webcomic FreakAngels , though it rapidly evolved into his internet home. He
2520-491: Is a differing of perception here, and I've been listening to it'. He said he was going to try therapy on the advice of friends". The Hollywood Reporter later reported Ellis would not be returning to Castlevania for subsequent seasons and that a planned Batman comic would no longer be moving forward. In June 2021, a week after Ben Templesmith announced that he would be reteaming with Ellis for new issues of Fell , Image Comics announced that they would not be publishing
2604-623: Is a humanist and former patron of Humanists UK , a charity focused on promoting humanism and advancing secularism . He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea , England. Ellis was born in Essex in February 1968. He has stated that the televised broadcast of the Moon landing is his earliest coherent memory. He was a student at the South East Essex Sixth Form College, commonly known as SEEVIC. He contributed comic work to
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2688-493: Is an American comic book imprint. Originally founded as an independent company established by Jim Lee under the name "Aegis Entertainment" and expanded in subsequent years by other creators, Wildstorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1998. Until it was shut down in 2010, the Wildstorm imprint remained editorially separate from DC Comics, with its main studio located in California . The imprint took its name from
2772-497: Is based on a talk Ellis gave in Berlin at a conference titled "Cognitive Cities", which was based on a series of posts on his website. At Image Expo 2015, Heartless , a new creator-owned comic book with Ellis's Supreme : Blue Rose collaborator Tula Lotay , was announced. As of May 2024 , Heartless has yet to be released, though Ellis has commented in 2016 that Lotay and he are working on it at their "own pace". Finality ,
2856-518: Is best known as the co-creator of several original comics series, including Transmetropolitan (1997–2002), Global Frequency (2002–2004) and Red (2003–2004), which was adapted into the feature films Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013). Ellis is the author of the novels Crooked Little Vein (2007) and Gun Machine (2013) and the novella Normal (2016). A prolific comic book writer, Ellis has written several Marvel series, including Astonishing X-Men , Thunderbolts , Moon Knight and
2940-626: Is frequently referred to as "The Boss", "Stalin", "The Love Swami" or "Internet Jesus" on these forums. Ellis maintains a blog at his personal website, thought it is rarely updated. Beginning in 2014, he wrote regularly at Morning.Computer . In 2015, Ellis published Cunning Plans , an ebook collection of talks he gave at technology and futurism conferences. In June 2020, several people (including musician Meredith Yayanos , artist Zoetica Ebb, and photographer Jhayne Holmes) publicly accused Ellis of sexual coercion and manipulation, in having engaged in simultaneous relationships with several of them without
3024-588: Is planned. Ellis joined main writer Kelly Sue DeConnick to co-write two issues of her Captain Marvel series in early 2015. In May 2015, Ellis reteamed with his Moon Knight collaborators Shalvey and Bellaire to publish Injection with Image Comics . The creator-owned science-fiction series follows the members of a think tank given the task of improving the future, who deal with mistakes made after trying to prevent human innovation from dying off. Three volumes of Injection have been released. Ellis launched
3108-523: The Gen spin-off DV8 and took over Stormwatch , a previously action-oriented team book, to which he gave a more idea- and character-driven flavor . He wrote issues 37–50 with artist Tom Raney , and the 11 issues of volume two with artists Oscar Jimenez and Bryan Hitch . Hitch and he followed that with the Stormwatch spin-off The Authority , a cinematic super-action series for which Ellis coined
3192-553: The Columbine High School massacre , that it would not publish " Shoot ", a Hellblazer story about school shootings , although the story had been written and illustrated prior to the Columbine massacre. Planetary concluded in October 2009 with issue 27. Ellis returned to Marvel Comics as part of the company's " Revolution " event, to head the " Counter-X " line of titles. This project was intended to revitalise
3276-523: The HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay. In his first talk, titled Our Hopeless Future and Other Comedy, he discussed the power of Twitter and how it can 'break' other people's websites. In the second, Thinking Differently, he explored how the internet revolution is changing people's lives and asked whether it is changing how people think. A festival regular, he has returned in subsequent years to debate
3360-745: The Marvel 2099 imprint , most notably in a storyline in which a futuristic Doctor Doom took over the United States. Other notable early Marvel work is a run on Excalibur , a superhero series set in Britain. He also wrote a four-issue arc of Thor called "Worldengine", in which he dramatically revamped both the character and book (though the changes lasted only as long as Ellis's run), and wrote Wolverine with artist Leinil Francis Yu . Ellis then started working for DC Comics , Caliber Comics and Image Comics ' Wildstorm studio, where he wrote
3444-578: The X-Men spin-off books Generation X , X-Man , and X-Force , but it was not successful and Ellis stayed away from mainstream superhero comics for a time. In 2002, Ellis started Global Frequency , a 12-issue limited series for Wildstorm, and continued to produce work for various publishers, including DC, Avatar Press , AiT/Planet Lar , Cliffhanger and Homage Comics . In 2004, Ellis came back to mainstream superhero comics. He took over Ultimate Fantastic Four and Iron Man for Marvel under
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3528-753: The crossover limited series DC/Wildstorm: DreamWar one of the earliest times where DC and WildStorm characters would appear together. The six-issue comic book limited series was written by Keith Giffen , drawn by Lee Garbett , and published by DC Comics . The Stormwatch: PHD title ended in November 2009. The remaining series each received another creative-team shake-up as 2010 began: February's The Authority #18 by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman with art by Al Barrionuevo , Wildcats #19 by Adam Beechen with art by Tim Seeley and Ryan Winn , and April's Gen #35 by Phil Hester and art by Cruddie Torian . WildStorm varied its publishing with licensed properties, such as: A Nightmare on Elm Street , Friday
3612-489: The " Extremis " story arc of Iron Man , which was the basis for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man 3 (2013). Ellis created The Authority and Planetary for WildStorm , and wrote a run of Hellblazer for Vertigo and James Bond for Dynamite Entertainment . Ellis wrote the video games Hostile Waters (2001), Cold Winter (2005), and Dead Space (2008). He also wrote
3696-551: The "WildStorm Universe" imprint, the creator-owned properties became the "WildStorm Signature Series" imprint, and all the licensed properties remained under the "WildStorm" imprint. Following Eye of the Storm , WildStorm published fewer WildStorm Universe titles, including Majestic and Wildcats: Nemesis ; Majestic was based on a character that had appeared in DC Comics Superman titles. In August 2006 , WildStorm simplified its "brand" by returning all content to
3780-435: The 13th , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , Mirror's Edge , World of Warcraft , The X-Files , Dante's Inferno , and God of War . WildStorm has also published original graphic novels from writers Kevin J. Anderson , John Ridley and David Brin . The imprint was shut down in December 2010, with Wildcats (vol. 5) #30 as its last issue, although DC Comics announced that the characters would reappear some time in
3864-697: The Superman crossover story arc Warworld Saga . A 12 issue WildC.A.T.S series by Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen Segovia ran from 2022 to 2023. The 2023 series Birds of Prey features WildC.A.T.S member Zealot, and the new Outsiders series relaunches the Wildstorm title Planetary with a new version of the character The Drummer as well as the Authority's sentient home The Carrier. The 2023 DC Black Label mini-series Waller vs. Wildstorm featured Wildstorm characters such as Team 7 and Stormwatch . In 2023, James Gunn of DC Studios announced that
3948-680: The WildC.A.T.s characters they released in 1993. In 1995, Wildstorm created an imprint called Homage Comics , centered on more writer-driven books. The imprint started with Kurt Busiek 's Astro City and The Wizard's Tale , James Robinson's Leave It to Chance (with Paul Smith), and Terry Moore 's Strangers In Paradise . Subsequently, the imprint featured works by Sam Kieth , including The Maxx , Zero Girl and Four Women , three of Warren Ellis ' pop-comics mini-series, Mek , Red , and Reload , and Jeff Mariotte 's weird western Desperadoes . In 1997, Cliffhanger debuted
4032-559: The animated TV movie G.I. Joe: Resolute (2009), wrote the English version of Marvel Anime (2010–2011), and served as the head writer on the acclaimed animated Netflix series Castlevania (2017–2021). Ellis is well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist (most notably nanotechnology , cryonics , mind transfer and human enhancement ) and folkloric themes, often in combination with each other. He
4116-420: The card game, Wildstorms: The Expandable Super-Hero Card Game produced between 1995 - 1997, which was later spun off into a crossover set of cards with Marvel. The crossover was the swan song for the Wildstorm game as Marvel's merchandising clout succeeded in pushing Wildstorm's out of the spotlight. Although the timing was right for their card game, they were too early by a year with a Pog game which used
4200-756: The cast, while WildC.A.T.s villain Helspont appeared in Superman #7 and #8, Grunge appeared in Superboy #8, Zealot appeared in Deathstroke #9, and Spartan appeared in Team 7 #5. Midnighter was a recurring character in Grayson , before spinning off into his own ongoing series. Midnighter and Apollo also appeared in a 6-issue miniseries, Midnighter and Apollo . On February 16, 2017, Wildstorm
4284-475: The college magazine Spike along with Richard Easter, who also later followed a career in writing. Before starting his career as a writer, he worked in a book and stationery store, a pub, in bankruptcy, in a record shop, and lifted compost bags. Ellis's writing career started in the British roleplaying magazine 'Adventurer' for which he wrote the 1920s Cthulhu mythos strip 'Whiplash' throughout 1986. This
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#17327761818304368-516: The comic industry and his work. From the Desk of was collected in two print volumes by Avatar Press. When technical issues forced that list to shut down in 2001, Ellis started a new email list, Bad Signal , which was described as "anarchy in your mailbox to brighten up your day". Bad Signal was replaced in 2012, two years after its closing, by Machine Vision ; Ellis ended Machine Vision alongside his relationship with his publisher Mulholland Books
4452-461: The company relaunched its entire superhero line with a rebooted continuity in an initiative known as The New 52 , which included Wildstorm characters incorporated into that continuity with its long-standing DC characters. In February 2017 Wildstorm was revived as a standalone universe with The Wild Storm , by writer Warren Ellis . However, the characters were reintroduced to DC continuity in 2021. Wildstorm, founded by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi ,
4536-425: The decision as one that would "strengthen both WildStorm's ability to expand its editorial goals and diversifying DC's output". WildStorm was editorially separate from DC Comics, and the two companies maintained offices on opposite coasts: Wildstorm in California , and DC in New York City . DC's acquisition of WildStorm allowed their respective universes to co-exist, and characters from either universe could appear in
4620-763: The future. DC Comics relaunched its DC Universe imprint in September 2011, which included the integration of the WildStorm characters into the DC Universe. The initial wave of relaunched titles included: Voodoo and Grifter solo series, a revived Stormwatch title featuring Jack Hawksmoor , Midnighter , Apollo , the Engineer , and Jenny Quantum , and a revived version of Team 7 with non-WildStorm characters Deathstroke , Amanda Waller and Black Canary . The Teen Titans spin-off title The Ravagers featured Caitlin Fairchild and Warblade as part of
4704-502: The limited series to television include writers Scott Nimerfro in 2009, and Rockne S. O'Bannon in 2014, though none have materialized. Gravel was at one point being developed with Tim Miller attached as director, with Ellis commissioned to write the first draft of the screenplay and serving as executive producer. Black Summer has also been optioned as a feature film. Ellis's comics collaboration with Chris Sprouse , Ocean , has been optioned, and Ryan Condal hired to write
4788-488: The line. In July of the same year, Christos Gage and Neil Googe published a new WildCats: World's End #1. There followed, in August 2008, a new Authority: World's End #1 by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with art by Simon Coleby , Gen #21 by Scott Beatty with art by Mike Huddleson , and Stormwatch: PHD #13 by Ian Edginton with art by Leandro Fernández and Francisco Paronzini . That same year, DC releaseld
4872-577: The most consistently, commercially successful comics from Image. These included Lee's own titles WildC.A.T.s and the teen-hero title Gen , illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. Like many other Image titles, some of the WildStorm titles suffered from inconsistent completion and shipping, resulting in "monthly" comics coming out every few months. This era produced a number of titles of varying popularity including Gen , WildC.A.T.s , Stormwatch , Deathblow , Cybernary , and Whilce Portacio's Wetworks . In late 1993, Lee launched Wildstorm Productions as
4956-452: The others' knowledge. The Daily Beast reported that "by 19 June, over 60 women had joined a group organized by Holmes, all of them accusing Ellis of a largely consistent pattern of behavior". The Guardian later reported that "roughly 100 women have come forward, while 33 of them have composed written statements, supported by emails and text messages, which have been seen by The Guardian ". These testimonials were posted together on
5040-536: The product. Paramount had international distribution rights, and later released the film only in a few foreign markets. Toys from both titles were less successful than those made by Todd McFarlane, partly due to poor marketing and partly because the McFarlane toys were targeted at a more mature audience. However, they had a big success copying Wizards of the Coast 's Magic: The Gathering with their introduction of
5124-531: The release of his short story "Dead Pig Collector". In July 2013, "Dead Pig Collector" was picked up by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and published as a digital original. In March 2014, Ellis relaunched Moon Knight for Marvel, with art by Declan Shalvey and colors by Jordie Bellaire . The series received critical acclaim and helped establish Moon Knight as a major character in the Marvel Universe. Ellis ended his run after six issues, after which
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#17327761818305208-423: The risks and rewards of artificial intelligence with physicist Stephen Hawking and collaborator Roger Penrose . Ellis is a contributor of nonfiction articles and columns to magazines and websites. He has been a columnist for SuicideGirls , Reuters , Vice , Wired UK , and Esquire . From 1995 to 1999, he wrote an email list titled From the Desk of , where he wrote about various subjects including
5292-603: The series after 12 issues in December 2016 and was succeeded as writer by Benjamin Percy . As part of Marvel's All-New All-Different relaunch, Ellis wrote the series Karnak , following the eponymous Inhuman character. The series debuted in October 2015 with art by Gerardo Zaffino to positive reviews. Karnak suffered several delays which resulted in Zaffino being replaced by Roland Boschi. The series ended its six-issue run in February 2017. Normal , Ellis's new novella,
5376-496: The series following negative reaction from within the industry. An update on SoManyofUs.com informed that Ellis reached out to the collective which created the site. He wrote that he was made aware of the offer of a mediated dialogue and that he would be available to begin a conversation. After having closed his newsletter in June 2020, he used it again to inform his subscribers about this development. In an update in January 2022, SoManyofUs.com reported that their members have been in
5460-403: The series over to Mark Millar . The Authority fused Silver Age superhero concepts with 1990s cynicism. In the 2004 Wildstorm crossover, Coup d'etat , the Authority takes control of the United States. Ellis and artist John Cassaday created Planetary , about "explorers of the strange", an experiment that merged pop culture, comic book history and literary characters. WildStorm launched
5544-506: The series was taken on by writer Brian Wood . Trees , a new creator-owned comics collaboration between Ellis and artist Jason Howard, debuted in May 2014 through Image Comics . The science fiction series explores a world in which aliens have invaded Earth, but completely ignored humans. The first story arc concluded in January 2015, and was followed by a second volume, Trees: Two Forests , which ended its run in August 2016 . A third volume
5628-704: The shift in tone. The new version was penciled by Dustin Nguyen with inks by Richard Friend. Gen was relaunched with a new first issue, written by X-Men's Chris Claremont. A Gen spinoff, 21 Down , was written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray . After the Point Blank mini-series, Ed Brubaker developed the same themes into the critically acclaimed Sleeper , set in the WildStorm universe. In 2001 Warren Ellis began Global Frequency . The rights for Global Frequency were bought by Warner Bros. in 2004 and
5712-556: The studio to work on the first issue of Cyberforce . Although he worked at the studio, his projects would debut as the work of a new Image "partner studio" firm named Top Cow . Silvestri continued to work out of Wildstorm's studio for about two years. Although WildStorm considered attracting talent, such as John Romita Jr. , from the "Big Two", ( Marvel and DC ), Lee decided to find new talent instead. Lee's talent search yielded Brett Booth in 1992, and J. Scott Campbell in 1993. Apart from McFarlane's Spawn , Wildstorm produced
5796-408: The studio's problems with erratic publication schedules. His attempts to get the studio's characters into other media proved disappointing. A Saturday morning cartoon series of WildC.A.T.s lasted only a single season (1994–1995), while a full-length animated version of Gen was produced but never released in the United States. Disney had acquired the domestic distribution rights, but shelved
5880-475: The term " widescreen comics ". In 1997, Ellis started Transmetropolitan , a creator-owned series about an acerbic "gonzo" journalist in a dystopian future America, co-created with artist Darick Robertson and published by DC's Helix imprint. When Helix was discontinued the following year, Transmetropolitan was shifted to the Vertigo imprint, and remained one of the most successful nonsuperhero comics DC
5964-418: The titles of either imprint. In 1999, WildStorm launched several new titles, including The Authority , a dark and violent superhero comic whose characters fought dirty and had little regard for the rights and lives of their opponents; their only goal was to make the world a better place. Warren Ellis created The Authority as a successor to Stormwatch . He wrote its first twelve issues before handing
6048-562: Was followed by a six-page short story published in 1990 in independent magazine Deadline . Other early works include a Judge Dredd short and a Doctor Who one-pager. His first ongoing work, Lazarus Churchyard with D'Israeli , appeared in Blast! , a short-lived British magazine. By 1994, Ellis had begun working for Marvel Comics , where he took over the series Hellstorm: Prince of Lies with issue number 12, which he wrote until its cancellation after issue number 21. He also wrote for
6132-450: Was hired to develop a science-fiction television series for AMC titled Dead Channel , but the project was put on hiatus. The series followed a television network executive who discovers the existence of aliens and decides to turn the discovery into a reality show. Listener , a near-future science fiction novel, was planned as Ellis's next book after Crooked Little Vein. The novel has since been lost and cancelled. Wastelanders ,
6216-608: Was not well received and was subsequently cancelled. For Marvel, he worked on Nextwave , a 12-issue limited series. He also worked on the Ultimate Galactus trilogy. Ellis also took over the Thunderbolts monthly title, which deals with the aftermath of the Marvel Civil War crossover. In honour of the 20th anniversary of Marvel's New Universe in 2006, Ellis and illustrator Salvador Larroca created
6300-419: Was officially revived with The Wild Storm #1 by Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt , a 24 issue series that re-imagined the Wildstorm Universe. On October 11, 2017, Wildstorm launched a second series under The Wild Storm banner with the 12 issue mini-series The Wild Storm: Michael Cray by Bryan Hill . Following the conclusion of The Wild Storm DC Comics announced that a new Wildcats six issue mini-series
6384-553: Was one of the founding studios that formed Image Comics in 1992. Image grew out of Homage Studios and was founded by artists Whilce Portacio , Jim Lee, Erik Larsen , Rob Liefeld , Todd McFarlane , Marc Silvestri , and Jim Valentino in San Diego, California . All but Portacio decided to become full partners in the new firm. At the time, Lee and Portacio were recognized for their work on various X-Men titles at Marvel Comics . In late 1992, penciller Marc Silvestri joined
6468-468: Was published in mid-2007 by William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins ). Ellis has described himself as "a notorious pain in the arse for getting involved in book design". According to a comment made in the first issue of Fell , he has more trade paperbacks in print than anyone else in the American comic industry. On 29 July 2007, Ellis announced two new projects for Avatar Press: FreakAngels ,
6552-437: Was released in 2017, and seasons 2 through 4 were released during the period of 2018 to 2021. Executive producer Adi Shankar confirmed that Ellis would be writing every episode. In 2012, Ellis announced he would publish a nonfiction book, tentatively titled Spirit Tracks , with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux . The book is "about the future of the city, the ghosts that haunt it and the science-fiction condition we live in." It
6636-416: Was released on 3 January 2013 by Mulholland Books . The novel follows a Manhattan detective investigating a murder, which expands into the hunt of a serial killer. Gun Machine hit The New York Times Best Sellers list and received mostly positive reviews. In June 2013, Ellis announced on his website that he would be ending his relationship with Mulholland Books due to "continuing issues" and cancelling
6720-437: Was serialized as four digital installments beginning in July 2016. It was published as a single volume by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November 2016. The near-future thriller follows the residents of an asylum for futurists as they investigate a disappearance. The novella received a mostly positive reception, with reviewers praising its plot, humor and commentary on the future. In October 2016, Ellis launched Shipwreck ,
6804-530: Was simply inspired by the comics as no source material exists outside the original miniseries. The Hoebers were commissioned to write a third installment in 2013, though no further developments have occurred since. A television series based on the Red film franchise, produced by di Bonaventura and written the Hoeber brothers, was announced as in development in 2015. The Iron Man " Extremis " story arc written by Ellis
6888-476: Was then publishing. Transmetropolitan ran for 60 issues (plus a few specials), ending in 2002, and the entire run was later collected in a series of trade paperbacks. It remains Ellis's largest work to date. Planetary , another Wildstorm series by Ellis and John Cassaday , launched in 1999, as did Ellis's short run on the DC/Vertigo series Hellblazer . He left that series when DC announced, following
6972-547: Was to debut August 28, 2019, again penned by Ellis with art by Ramon Villalobos, but was cancelled in 2019. Grifter, Apollo, and The Midnighter appeared in the alternate future timeline series Future State : Dark Detective in 2021. The Wildstorm characters were then officially reintroduced into DC Universe continuity later that year in Batman: Urban Legends #5 and Superman and The Authority . The new Authority team then appeared as supporting characters in
7056-428: Was used as the primary influence on the plot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man 3 , directed by Shane Black . Elements of "Extremis" were also used in the first Iron Man film. Global Frequency has been at various stages of adaptation since its publication. A television pilot written by John Rogers was produced in 2005, but development ended after it was leaked. Several more attempts to bring
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